Reply #32: Bait-and-switch on methamphetamines.

[theorist]

Forget the fact that what Santorum is proposing here would require a Ph.D.'s worth of education on evolutionary theory, including embryology, comparative anatomy, game theory, etc. Forget that we can barely teach high schoolers calculus on a large scale. Also forget that in almost every subject, students can only get a very limited survey.

None of that is important. What these guys want is to teach the origin of man in the context of Genesis. Do you think they'll be up for a proposal that we teach the Old Testament creation story where we stress the scientific and historical inaccuracies within it?

Are these people not proposing the same be done with a scientific theory that has withstood harsh testing for a century and a half? It feels like bait and switch.

Oh, by the way. "Evolution", defined to be changes in gene frequency over time, is not theoretical. It can be demonstrated in a lab. You see it in everyone who is not an identical copy of yourself. The mechanism by which certain genes are "chosen" over others is what is up for debate.