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My stance might surprise you, but I think the ACLU was both right and wrong.

On a substantive level, dissing evolution as a theory is the same as dissing gravity as a theory. The word means something different in scientific parlance than it does in conservation among the general public.

I think evolution is reality, but that's not really relevant at the moment.

I think if the Cobb County school district wants to teach only Creation Science or its clone, Intelligent Design, they should be able to. I see no federal role in state education.

Unfortunately, the state of the law is such that there is a federal role in state education, and the state of the law is that religion is a verboten topic in public schoolrooms.

That's not something new. Given those legal realities, this case was very easy to predict.

Religion is verboten in the public square because of the ACLU and their supporters. The appellate court sent the case back to the trial court because he did a crappy job. The ACLU then sucked Cobb County dry and once again the extortionists win without having to go the appellate courts. They are pimps which is the reason I addressed your post.

This is not a clear cut case of a public school teaching Religion or ID. I'd be happy to discuss that but that wasn't my original point.

My original and current point is that the ACLU uses extortion and blood sucking to advance an exclusively secular agenda nowhere to be found in the US Constitution.

dissing evolution as a theory is the same as dissing gravity as a theory

This analogy is absurd. At least you can see gravity working. Gravitational forces can be measured in repeatable experiments. Evolution is more like trying to postulate the "theory of gravity" based solely on a collection of stop-action photographs of falling objects without knowing how fast the object was initially moving or what other forces may be acting on the object.

I think if the Cobb County school district wants to teach only Creation Science or its clone, Intelligent Design, they should be able to.

They don't. They only want to teach the kids to think critically and to understand that the ToE is not a proven fact.

The irony with teaching children that evolution is fact is that not only does it have the intended effect of reducing the number of people who believe in creation, it also reduces the number of people who grow up to try and prove evolution since they think that it has already been proven.