[Fester Chugabrew]

As long as they take my money to pay for public education, and as long as public education is imposed by force of law on our children, I will continue to hope that force of law will be employed when insane village idiots try to take over the schools, and teach whatever they bloody well please.

I've got news for you: Yours isn't the only money paying for public schools. Neither are your beliefs about science the only ones worthy of credibility. You would, by force of law, prevent free inquiry among the body politic, and to that extent you are just like the Pope in Galileo's day.

[donh]

I've got news for you: Yours isn't the only money paying for public schools. Neither are your beliefs about science the only ones worthy of credibility.

Yes they are. If you want to teach a course in what scientists don't think, then by all means avail yourself of an opposing view, however, if you want to teach a course in what scientists do think, that is what you will have to teach in that course.

You would, by force of law, prevent free inquiry among the body politic, and to that extent you are just like the Pope in Galileo's day.

Yes, well, and to the extent that I'm not threatening you with painful death for expressing your opinions in public, I am not just like the Pope in Galileo's day.

You have all the freedom you can handle almost anywhere you like, but not in the science classroom where you are, quite rightly, restricted to teaching children what scientists think.

[AntiGuv]

Just as you have the freedom to say ridiculous things, other people have the freedom to ridicule you for it.