I cringe whenever I see the words "both sides" used in this debate. There are many more than two sides involved. So any school board that wants to open the door to teaching creation myth along side of evolution should be required to teach the whole realm of creation myths. For example, this site:
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has a nice list of many different creation myths, though it is by no means complete. A school should be required to teach each of these as possible beginnings of life if it wants to have religion compete with evolution in the classroom.
After all, bush said: "Part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought. . . . You're asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed to different ideas, and the answer is yes."
So hell yes, let's teach the kids all of these different creation myths, giving them all equal time, and let them sort it out for themselves.
Then, recognizing it for what it truly is, let's keep this in the arena of elective religion class, going nowhere near science classes.
Oh, and calling bush a moron is giving him much more credit than he deserves and doing a great disservice to morons everywhere.
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