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"If we did that for every science course, kids would learn nothing. What makes biology different?"

Oh, please, that's not even slightly true. What, are people arguing that the laws of thermodynamics are inconsistent? Are they arguing that there's no such thing as gravity? Are people having trouble with Einstein's theories? Oh, actually, yes, when I was a kid, Hawking was just starting to become big, and our teacher DID teach us about what was still some rather controversial points being made by Hawking that differed from Einsten...

Get my point?

What makes evolutionary theory different is that it's still basically conjecture. When I was a kid, I was taught as -fact- that Neanderthal was a direct ancestor of humans - and now we know that ain't true. We -still- haven't found the missing link. There's still a -tremendous- number of unanswered questions. What bothers me is that when I was taught it, I was -never- made aware by my teachers that there were still unanswered questions. The entire thing was taught as fact. And as it has even been admitted on this thread, it's -not- fact.

The vast bulk of other sciences -are- fact, and it's just plain silly to pretend otherwise. And before you come back with "Well, what about the Flat Earth Society?", I hate to tell you this, but people who consider ID to be a possibility aside from the religious aspect are not nearly so fringe, and it's really disrespectful, arrogant and rude to act as if they're simply insane.

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