[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

You don't have to be for or against evolution to support this bill. Alternative views are necessary in academia. i.e. Intelligent Design, Ward Churchill ~~ But, the fact is Evolution is accepted by 99% of the scientific community. Therefore it must be taught with that in mind.

I genuinely appreciate your open-minded approach to scientific and educational controversy.

I shall, for the sake of charity, pass over your atrociously-incendiary equivalence between Ward Churchill and Creationists. (Other than to say, since you brought it up -- I think that I can confidently state that Ward Churchill is an Evolutionist, not a Creationist. Anti-American nutbag neo-Marxists usually are Evolutionists, you know).

Provided that one accepts the current regime of Tax-supported Publik Skooling, all that Intelligent Design proponents ask is a "place at the table". To employ an analogy I have used before -- if an Archaeologist found what appeared to be a wood-and-stone Construction Hammer encased in a chunk of sedimentary rock, it would be reasonable to consider whether or not the Hammer was formed by "Intelligent Design" as opposed to "random uniformitarian processes of chaotic amalgamation".

If this is true of our hypothetical preserved Hammer, then -- how much the more could it (possibly) be true of Living Cells, which contain vastly more Specified Informational Complexity than a simple Hammer, and of which (in keeping with the Predictions of Pasteur's Law of Biogenesis) NO Abiogenetic Origin by means of "random uniformitarian processes of chaotic amalgamation" has ever been Observed, Tested, Reproduced, or even Evidenced in any Laboratory Experimental setting in History, whatsoever?

If you're willing to permit the presentation of the "Intelligent Design" hypothesis, and allow the presentation of scientific evidences which present difficulties for the Evolutionary scenario -- then I, in turn, am perfectly happy to accept the presentation of scientific evidences which allegedly provide support for the Evolutionary scenario, and acknowledge that "Evolution is accepted by 99% of the scientific community" (although, in fairness, this Statistic should be progressively-adjusted downward as hundreds upon hundreds of Doctoral-degreed scientists worldwide continue to sign on to the "Scientific Dissent from Darwinism" petition).

Realistically, however, this is a make-shift solution. A genuinely Free-Market and Free-Speech equilibrium cannot be reached until Publik Skooling is abolished entirely -- and the $7,000-per-year, per-child that Big Gubmint currently spends on Universal Education is returned wholesale to the Parents (by means of Vouchers, Tax Credits, Tax Cuts, or what have you) for the purpose of sending their Children to the school of their Choice -- whether home, tutorial, private, military, or parochial; whether Evolutionist or Creationist. Ultimately, this is the only Truly-Moral solution.

• “To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves is sinful and tyrannical.” ~~ Thomas Jefferson

Best, OP