I think the question is more general myself. Evolution is a very important part of biological science. In all honesty, in some ways its importance can be overstated. I read biochemistry of four years and its probably true to say I wouldn't have needed to know about evolution to have done so successfully (though it certainly made things like immunology easier). IMHO a little bit of the fetishising of evolution in the biological world is because its the only (or anyway the best) example we have of an overarching unifying theory. Rutherfords jibe ("there are two kinds of science, physics and stamp collecting) still stings. Anyway, you would have to be a dull biologist indeed to study genes or protein folding or whatever, and never ask yourself where all this complexity came from.

But as a symbol of hard won human knowledge of the way the world is that is at danger of being not taught because it does not agree with some people's belief of the way the world should be, evolution should be defended to the death (provided, of course, you have already made sure you have at least two children in the next generation and your enemies do not... ) This is independent of any special quality of evolution, I'd feel the same way if the Bible said there was no such thing as Newtonian mechanics or even, Darwin forgive me for saying it, literary deconstruction.