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This is important. The Christian community (Christian parents particularly) tend to sit back and complain that "God has been taken out of our schools" but do absolutely nothing to support those in the trenches, like this man (who really did nothing wrong in the first place). Christian parents should be at every PTA meeting, at every school board meeting, at every candidate forum leading up to school board elections, at every textbook hearing, etc. They are not there.
I actually don't support Christian teachers trying to subvert evolution - primarily because the vast majority of those who try, do it not as an academic exercise, but to push an agenda and even worse than that, the vast majority also don't know what they're talking about. AIG, ICR, and other YEC apologetic organizations have made loads of money over the last 2-3 decades peddling pseudoscience to people who don't know any better. I'm not saying that the theory of evolution (or any other scientific theory related to long ages) is complete or flawless, but it's ludicrous to think that incompleteness is justification to chuck out the entire idea - which is exactly the idea these organizations have been pushing for as long as I can remember.
Theories related to gravity, relativity, quantum mechanics - even basic newtonian physics are all incomplete - all have flaws or unanswered questions. But who would suggest that since we haven't even discovered yet how gravity is transmitted, that it doesn't even exist? Who would suggest that since relativity and quantum mechanics can't be reconciled that they are both completely wrong and ought to be tossed out? We know that Newton's "laws" of motion are wrong, but we continue to use them, because they're close enough to be used in most of our daily living. We continue to teach them in school, because they're useful and teach children the fundamentals of certain physical properties. Holding evolution to some special standard - that it must answer any and all questions or else it's completely invalid - is dishonest.
-Dan.
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