[qam1]

Also, you imply that the content of school curriculum in places like India and Japan comes from some sort of exercise in which the evidence for various viewpoints is considered and weighed in an objective manner. If there were enough evidence for Creationism/ID, then surely that would be what the Hindus and Shintos are teaching in their schools. But since they’re teaching evolution now (reallly???), that must mean...evolution has more...evidence...for it? I’m sorry I just can’t follow you... There is so much that is wrong with that, I’m not sure where to start.

It's not hard to figure out

The Indians and Japanese have no religious reasons for either accepting/rejecting either creationism, ID or Evolution.

So when a Japanese or Indian scientist looks at the evidence without a religious or non-religious agenda, if the evidence points to Creationism/ID then why don't they see it?

Likewise, if Evolution is such a sham then why wouldn't they reject it and beat the west in Biotechnology?

Why is it only fundamentalist Christians and Muslims who don't study science the only ones to see that evolution is a fraud?

The same can be said of Pharmaceutical companies, do you really think Merck, Pzier, Wyeth, Bristol Myers, etc care about the Evolution/Creation debate? No they only care about coming up with the best drugs which makes them the most money. So when a pharmaceutical company sets out to make a new drug, who do they hire, a Scientist who believes in evolution or a "Scientist" who believes in creation?

[lifebygrace]

With all due respect, that just isn’t how public school curriculum is developed - not here in the United States and not in Japan...where it so happens I lived for 3 years. I’ve never lived in India, but I did do some research after your post into the Indian education system and feel comfortable that that’s not how it’s done there either.