Kansas finds sanity again

[English assassin]

It allowed the teaching of creationism...in science classes.

That is fine so long as I can teach enzyme kinetics in RE.

DC, no one would say that science has a complete answer, with copper bottomed proof, for how we went from a ball of lava to me typing these words in 4.5 billion years. No biologist would, I think, say we had a stand out theory for how life began, and no biologist would want children to be told that we did in the absence of evidence. Like you I find the whole "warm little pool" model a bit unlikely although its not the last word on the subject these days, and you and I probably both have difficulty in giving full credit for what might happen when you are considering things on a geological timescale. Its a bit unfair to draw many conclusions from the fact that cells fail to spontaneously assemble in a test tube in a week, when we are talking about the whole surface of the earth and maybe 500 million years.

The trouble with your (otherwise reasonable) comments about not being allowed to question evolution and whats that all about, is we are talking about school level science here. It simplifies. You wouldn't get up in arms about teaching kids Newtonian gravity, even though as it happens we know for a fact its wrong. (ish. Y'all know what I mean. )

So, how come for all other school subjects, we teach the kids the essential outlines of the broadly accepted approaches to the issues, but here, where we have a theory which in its overall form is about as firmly established as any scientific theory has ever been, we want to be open to nit picking and quibbles that don't even affect the basic theory, and that might be relevant at university level but not before.

Oh yeah. Because a few people seriously think the bible says the earth was created in 4004 BC. As pedagogy that doesn't do it for me.

As you said earlier, its lucky for you the bible has nothing to say about electrical engineering.