[sometime lurker]

Agreed. And if we’re going to discuss “strengths and weaknesses” of evolution, clearly we must discuss, in school classrooms, the issues with every other scientific theory as well.

[ClearCase_guy]

In the marketplace of ideas, people should consider discussing those ideas which the marketplace calls out for.

I don't think too many people are calling for a discussion of the Miasma theory of disease in schools -- so there's no much need to bother with that. Or the flat earth. Or the Fomenko chronology.

But there are a great many people (scientist and non-scientist) who would like criticisms of evolution discussed at least somewhat in schools. To shut them out of the marketplace of ideas -- when they are a large and vocal group -- is to show signs of fear.

[Shadowfax]

“Agreed. And if we’re going to discuss “strengths and weaknesses” of evolution, clearly we must discuss, in school classrooms, the issues with every other scientific theory as well.”

As long as we limit it to valid scientific theories (which evolution is not), I agree.

[ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY]

You two seem to think that discussing weaknesses takes many hours of time; a few minutes (less than 10) is what happens.

I assume y'all never discussed the problems with Einstein's theory of relativity, nor talked about Nicolai Tesla's competing theories, nor the ..

I suppose since you had an impoverished education, you want everyone else to also.

Something you dogmatic Darwinists just don't get is ID is NOT antithetical to evolution; it merely states that Macro-evolution cannot happen by pure chance alone!!! It makes the proposition that some other, as yet undiscovered, natural law governs the process. (Yes, it also means that we have a CREATOR! Which is the main reason it is an anathema to the Darwinists.)