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Now, there's obviously a problem for the homeschooled kid if he shows up to a college geology class and writes a paper that says all rocks are less than 6,000 years old. But even if the homeschooled kid flunks geology, is it really going to affect his whole academic career?

Which is exactly the point about teaching creation in public schools.

There are several factors involved. The first is that not everyone is going into a scientific field, much less one that requires a working knowledge of the ToE. That knocks out a huge percentage of kids who really need to know it.

Then there is the issue of teaching evolution accurately. That presumes the textbooks are accurate and the teacher is qualified to adequately teach the subject. Strike two.

Then there's the student factor. Presuming that the kid didn't sleep during that day of class, wasn't sick, wasn't doing homework for another class, the student must have comprehended it, and remembered it.

All for subject material that generally covers 3-4 days tops, of one course in one year of high school.

The emphasis that is put on the teaching of the ToE is way disproportionate to the actual need, but considering how the ToE is being used by the liberal God hating elements like the atheists and ACLU, it would be better to drop the whole thing.

For the controversy surrounding the teaching of the subject, it'd be better to just eliminate it from the curriculum altogether and just let anyone who needs to know it learn it at the college level.

But again, the point is that teaching creation is not going to hurt the students academic career as much as many of the evos direly predict. Which means that that is not enough justification to keep creation out of schools.

Teach all. Or none.