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Actually, in deference to you, I adopted the word "nontheistic" as opposed to "atheistic" since the distinction is supposedly so important. I hardly use the word to define "everything in life but actual prayer," but I do use it to define the type of science that adheres to the shaping principle that God is beyond its purview.

I don't care how legally attuned or well-practiced you are. The Constitution does not prohibit the expression - either in public, in private, in science, or in horsehoes - that organized matter may be the result of a higher intelligence. Nor does it allow for nontheistic principles to be established as the only viable science, either in public or in private.

If you think non-theistic science is so fine, then fund your own private schools so as to keep out the superstitious riff raff and keep your children pure from what you believe to be academically inferior teaching.

If you think non-theistic science is so fine, then fund your own private schools so as to keep out the superstitious riff raff and keep your children pure from what you believe to be academically inferior teaching. ( Fester Chugabrew)

To Fester Chugabrew,

Any government powerful enough to allow and force upon resistant children a religious worldview is powerful enough to force a secular, atheistic, or non-theistic agenda on your children.

Solution: Get rid of government schools! They are a monstrosity. They are tyranny and do not allow freedom of conscience.

Actually, in deference to you, I adopted the word "nontheistic" as opposed to "atheistic" since the distinction is supposedly so important. I hardly use the word to define "everything in life but actual prayer," but I do use it to define the type of science that adheres to the shaping principle that God is beyond its purview.

You chose to use the word, but you have evidenced no comprehension of what is meant by it, or even of the meaning of the word "secular." And that's the reason why your opinions are so screwed up: the refusal to recognize that there are things in life that have no place within them for religious subjectivism.

If you think non-theistic science is so fine, then fund your own private schools so as to keep out the superstitious riff raff and keep your children pure from what you believe to be academically inferior teaching.

You've got it completely backwards (although I suspect you already know that.) Because the Constitution does not permit religious instruction to be masqueraded as science, if you want your children's education to be damaged in that fashion under the guise of your right as a parent to teach your religion, the onus is on you to establish your little madrassas to churn out the next generation of True Believers.