First of all, as I had hoped my post made clear, I wasn't supportive of the State Board beginning this fight in general. I was, however, stating that many generally conservative people thought that because the pedulumn had swung too far in the anti-Christian direction in general that such a bludgeon was to be expected and, perhaps, almost necessary if we are to control our own children's education.
My son is a Kansas science teacher. I have nothing but true sympathy for what they have been put through. But even he has said that since he rarely teaches biology, he sees this is a fight outside his field and that it is being waged on the social science and political field of battle. Neutrons, fulcrums and metamorphic rock don't eveolve through natural selection might be his view now that this is seen for a battle outside the field of most science and even really outside the field of biology when you look at the true causes.
I have always understood my religous views as not being in conflict with my religous views. I have also felt that the problem of leftist propoganda being taught should be faced head-oin rather than in the oblique. But there is something to be said for the fact that before a student is developed enough to understand the issues of rationalism, Secular Humanism and the like, he as already been led, and even forced to "choose" science "or" religion rather than making the understanding that most religious people have made since the time of Thomas Aquinas: that the two aren't really in conflict.
...my religous views as not being in conflict with my religous views...
...my religous views as not being in conflict with my scientific views...
Proof, proof, proof...dang it.