Im not saying that the hindu or islamic belief systems contradict the evolutionary theory and honestly I don't know enough about their beliefs to confidently comment on them. Instead I am using these as examples of what is and should be tolerated in public institutions such as schools and that the same tolerance must also be applied to potentially offensive teachings whatever they may be.
Really, I don't think this point is so complicated. In the Hindu and Muslim examples you gave, there is no objection to the content being taught, just the sample organism that is used in the teaching (Hindu) or the time in which the content is taught (Muslim). In the creationist example with evolution, it is the content that is objectionable. I am simply pointing out that your analogy is flawed, that what is happened to the creationist in the classroom is different from what is happening to the hindu and muslim.
Now, as for your examples of conflict, I am sure you must be refering to this:
One of the most basic teachings of most christian faiths is that the earth was created in perfect balance and that the sin that the sin of man, originating from Adam, let to the downfall of creation including death. Obviously death is an essential part of the theory of evolution, however since it claims that humans evolved much later in the evolutionary time line after the death of innumerable living organisms. Hopefully you can see how these two time lines don't sync up. This as well as the order of creation accounted in the book of Genesis which also goes against what is largely accepted as plausible by science. Which means either or the theory of evolution was wrong, or the infallible, omnipotent God of the bible was wrong and thereby voiding all subsequent biblical entries as not trustworthy because if He is wrong about something so simple as an order of events then what else did He "get wrong".
So the two conflicts are concerning the role and timing of death of humans, and the order of creation events. I will ignore the fact that there are two creation stories in the Bible for a second, and focus on this comment that you made to Dr. Jones:
If you can provide reasonable support and evidence for the fact that your governmentally recognized religion is in contradiction with math, then yes. However I do not foresee that happening as getting the government to recognize a religion takes a bit more than filling out some paper work and writing "Math is bad" under "List your religion's beliefs here".
So in other words for you to really object to how evolution is taught, there must be something in how your religion is registered with the government that goes directly against an evolutionary teaching. So tell me, in the two examples that you gave, does evolutionary teaching really contradict the fundamental aspects of whatever religion you are that is registered with the government, or does it simply contradict your interpretation of stories in the Bible? I'm really finding it hard to believe that when your religion was registered with the government, it was specifically stated that human death has to occur before the death of anything else. Otherwise, I need another example of conflict or a new argument.
You hear evolutionist says we are descedant from apes and monkees. Sure, but that's not the point. All of life is related, not just human's with monkees. If you hug a tree, you're hugging a relative, a very distant relative, but a relative nonetheless." Dr. Joan Roughgarden in Evolution and Christian Faith
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