I agree with that, but there is a great deal of science supporting in-species evolution.
Still, a secular fantasy is far less threatening, from my point of view, than the state adopting a "book" religious perspective to education. I believe that should be left to parents and preachers.
I have a very substantial fear of the state...and the state with a religious flavor terrifies me.
You have to remember, this is not the year 1217 and we are NOT the Holy Roman Empire.
I this modern era, in the USA and the rest of the Western World...you don't know WHAT you'll get from a government religion.
Sure, a Roman Catholic, or any other mainstream Christian Religion would give you a tolerable state order.
But that's not a certain outcome.
Consider: What if Mormons, Assemblies of God, Catholics, Muslims etc. gained the reins of state? Would you then be so sanguine? Jehovah's Witnesses? L Ron Hubbard?
I don’t believe in taeaching Adam and Eve in school, but it probably was for the first century and a half in America with little ill effect. What I take issue with is the idea that “secularist fantasy” is non-threatening. When taught under the auspices of *science*, vulnerable young minds come to believe that we are our own gods. After all, if God is irrelevant to creation, we can all make our own rules with no consequence unless we get caught. If we have no more value than a chimp or protozoa, why treat others morally? Why do the right thing when no one is looking?
IMO, the theory of evolution has brought us a poisoned society where the most angry, hateful Marxists in America can now be elected President. They lie and prey upon susceptible to calls for envy and greed, and persuade a population incapable of critical thinking. Bob