[ndt]

"You can actually have a productive career in a science-based field like medicine without finding evolution useful."

I assume his career doesn't require a good grasp of Early American History either. Do you think we should remove that too?

[hellbender]

American History is fundamental to being a good citizen and understanding our political system and culture...the kind of things we're supposed to be concerned with as conservatives on FR--not obsessing about some theory of rather limited utility to most people, even most scientists.

Besides, American history, at least the non-revisionist, pro-American variety, is one of the things disappearing from middle and high school education. Evolution and other materialistic themes are not disappearing or threatened. Far from it.

Evolution is not "basic science." Quit claiming it is.