Who do you think they've been calling to testify on behalf of evolutionist teaching, Bozo the Clown? The academic world looks to scientists as a source of reliable information about the universe. It should. But when those same scientists make a priori assumptions that inhibit an understanding of the universe, they should be challenged, along with their teachings.
I'll repeat the question: who is responsible for for recent schoolboard meetings about the teaching of evolutionary science. Scientists?
The academic world looks to scientists as a source of reliable information about the universe.
No, it doesn't--the universe is larger than science. However, the academic world does think, as a matter of ordinary, uncontroversial common sense, that science classes should teach children what scientists think.
It should. But when those same scientists make a priori assumptions that inhibit an understanding of the universe, they should be challenged, along with their teachings.
It is not routinely observed that scientists are terribly delinquent in policing their own a priori assumptions, incompentent opinions of non-scientists, with a painfully obvious ax to grind, to the contrary notwithstanding.