[Californiajones]

If evolution cannot be reduced to a formula, then, how, pray tell, do Evos think that it should be taught to schoolchildren? Just pull out that old Time Life poster of the lowly ugly ape getting taller and taller and turning into a human being?

[CarolinaGuitarman]

"If evolution cannot be reduced to a formula, then, how, pray tell, do Evos think that it should be taught to schoolchildren?"

How is Germ Theory reduced to a formula? How is astronomy reduced to a formula? How is geology reduced to a formula?

Again, your contention that a theory needs to be reduced to a formula in order to be scientific is just hilariously ignorant. Most theories in science are not reducible to a formula.

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

"If evolution cannot be reduced to a formula, then, how, pray tell, do Evos think that it should be taught to schoolchildren?"

OK, so you are suggesting that, if something cannot be reduced to a formula, it should not be taught to schoolchildren.

Congratulations, you just knocked out most science, all language arts, and all other arts.

I guess the kids do arithmetic day after day until they go postal.

[aNYCguy]

If evolution cannot be reduced to a formula, then, how, pray tell, do Evos think that it should be taught to schoolchildren?

This is one of the most laughable statements I've heard on FR in a while. Apparently you believe that the only thing which can be taught to schoolchildren are formulas? How do you suggest the theory of heliocentrism be taught to schoolchildren? How do you suggest germ theory be taught to schoolchildren?

The answer, of course, is that it will be taught in the same way which any vast field of scientific knowledge and inquiry is taught to schoolchildren: By giving them a brief conceptual and factual overview of the current state-of-the-mainstream.

I'm constantly amazed at the singling-out of evolution, amongst scores of overwhelming accepted scientific theories, for bizarre objections.