[mrustow]

To tell a teacher that he must dogmatically teach the theory of evolution, and remain silent about the theory's scientific problems, sounds authoritarian, superstitious, and irrational (cowardly, too). Such an attitude is the opposite of the scientific temper.

[RadioAstronomer]

To tell a teacher that he must dogmatically teach the theory of evolution, and remain silent about the theory's scientific problems, sounds authoritarian, superstitious, and irrational (cowardly, too). Such an attitude is the opposite of the scientific temper.

Not true at all. Would you want your teacher also teaching that the earth was flat and rested on the back of a tortise? Same diff.

[KeepUSfree]

If you want to cover this as a political - rather than science vs. religion debate, it would go like this: Does the teacher have the right to teach whatever he/she wants regardless of the desires of the school, school board, and local parents. Or, in other words, should the Supreme court (ie. Federal Gov't) tell local school boards what can or can't be taught. Since our constitution provides no federal control of education, they are right to butt out.