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Then why do you consider only 1/3 of the responders to the poll as *pro-science*?

The lower bound of the number of pro-science freepers is one third. I think the number may actually be a lot higher. The poll was on a wedge issue, one that was designed to be contentious. At least one out of every three freepers believes that theology has no place in science class. I actually think that this number is higher.

The minute a person states they are a creationist, they are lumped into the YEC category...

Know that luddites do exist among us. They exist to drive a wedge between us.

I am dismayed. What happened to Sunday school? Has the conservative movement adopted the postition that students need creationism in science class because not enough of them are going to church? What is wrong with lessons of Adam and Noah in Sunday school or bible study? Why biology class? Contrary to popular belief, science classes are among the least politicized classes in the public school system. Science and math classe are also one of the last places that haven't been given over for complete relativism. In science and math, your answer is right or wrong. No mushy feelings and cultural sensitivity involved. How is the wedge issue going to make things better? It isn't. Pick your battles! This is the wrong one!

What was wrong with creation being taught in the science classrooms to begin with? People only want it BACK. What people object to is the ACLU using the power of the judiciary to force it out of schools. During the Scopes Trials they pushed to just have it not illegal to teach evolution. Now it's to the point where Creation can't even be mentioned. I think the ACLU is just seeing the evolutionists as useful idiots in their drive to expunge Christianity from society; and the evos are going along with it. They think it's about *keeping science pure*, the ACLU, I believe, knows better. The evolutionists co-operation with the ACLU is not in their favor.

For all the years of having creation taught in public schools, I don't see that it hurt the advances made in science at all. A great many of the scientific advances made during the last couple hundred or so years, were made at a time where creation was taught in public schools and evolution was not. It cannot be demonstrated that the teaching of creation in schools is going to cause the deterioration of education in America. On the contrary, the only correlation I've seen is a deterioration of the American education system coinciding with the removal of Christianity from it.