#####Personally, I am all for the privitization of education. Continue to use government funding so that all students have the educational opportunities that they need, but run the schools privately.#####
Stremba, would you use the presence of government funding in such a scenario to ban the teaching of alternatives to evolution in those private schools? I'm certain the ACLU and "Reverend" Barry Lynn would. If that's the case, then the private schools will end up no different than the public ones.
Also, regarding life emerging from its absence, would you agree that we have never observed such a thing occurring, and thus any claim that it has occurred should hardly be taken as dogma?
I would agree, that in practice, government funding of education would lead to government/ACLU control. I was being idealistic in that I would wish for the government funding without the government control. Also I would limit it entirely to local government; state and federal governments should have no part in the funding. As far as abiogenesis, you are free to believe that this is a specualtive idea because it is. It is also no part of the theory of evolution. Life could have been created directly by God, and that fact would not damage evolution one bit, because the ultimate origin of life is not a topic that evolution deals with. Actually, I think a lot of this debate arises from misconceptions. Evolution does not, in and of itself, state that there is no God or that there is no intelligent guidance involved in the process (it doesn't say that there is either.) Admittedly there are people who state that evolution demonstrates that there is no God or that the process must be entirely random, the actual theory doesn't state this. This is no more a part of the theory of evolution than Inquisitions are a part of Roman Catholic teaching.