All you want is 30 to 45 seconds, huh? Yeah right!
I credit the majority of American children have a basic knowledge of the creation story in Genesis by the time that they are ready for biology. They should have learned it from their parents or in church by the time they are eight years old. You sell America's children short.
However, in rebuttal, would you then favor 30 to 45 seconds of an Evo announcing in each church, temple and mosque that "Some people think that man evolved, biologically, from other primates." I think not. Reciprocation is not an option with dogma. Venue and not subject IS the issue and not ID vs Evo.
"I credit the majority of American children have a basic knowledge of the creation story..."Some people think that man evolved, biologically, from other primates."
You need a scorecard. Can't tell the players without a scorecard.
My mother went to Catholic schools from 1917 to 1931, back in the day, and the nuns and priests taught her that the creation stories in Genesis are to be understood as allegories, not literal history, and that there is no conflict between the fossil record and Catholicism.
Atheists and believers are natural antagonists, as are evolution proponents and Biblical literalists.
However, it is not the case (as you seem to think) that all believers are natural antagonists of evolution proponents.
I have no problem with the application of scientific methods to the fossil record, or to most conclusions drawn as a result. I do have a problem with teaching young people that the fossil record demonstrates that there is no God.
Since the odds of atheists refraining from communicating that to their students are, for all practical purposes, zero, I'd like to see students exposed to the countervailing notion that many intelligent, educated, and sane people believe in God.
And that wouldn't take more than a few seconds a semester.
The only reason I can see for insisting on a hermetic seal on the classroom to prevent that from happening is that atheists want the opposition silenced.