[manwiththehands]

Any school willing to teach anything along with evolution is truly interested in teaching science.

I would be more willing to accept that life came from outer space than from evolution.

There are simply to many ideas to consider. And what is science? Considering and discussing ideas and looking at all of them with scrutiny.

America's kids might be better off and smarter than I previously thought.

[Luis Gonzalez]

"I would be more willing to accept that life came from outer space than from evolution."

Why would you be willing to dissmiss the idea that evolution may have been God's way of going about the act of Creation and attach yourself to extra-terrestrial as the source of life?

Where did THEY come from then?

How did they evolve from creations to creators?

[Coyoteman]

And what is science? Considering and discussing ideas and looking at all of them with scrutiny.

Piling up facts is not science--science is facts-and-theories. Facts alone have limited use and lack meaning: a valid theory organizes them into far greater usefulness.

A powerful theory not only embraces old facts and new but also discloses unsuspected facts [Heinlein 1980:480-481].

What are the facts? Again and again and again - what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what 'the stars foretell,' avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable 'verdict of history' - what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your only clue. Get the facts!

Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, 1973

Some ideas have already been discarded by science. There is no need to continue to look at them.

[Dimensio]

I would be more willing to accept that life came from outer space than from evolution.

Curious. What is your reason for this?

There are simply to many ideas to consider.

I do not understand the meaning of this statement. While there are many "ideas", not all "ideas" are necessarily worthy of consideration.

And what is science? Considering and discussing ideas and looking at all of them with scrutiny.

This is not accurate. Science can only consider "ideas" that are based upon observations within the universe and that can be tested via objective means. It is not worthwhile for science to consider ideas that cannot be tested in any way.