I couldn't open the link.
I was interested in how old this proposed legislation was.
I also wondered whether Evolution is directly taught in that State, because the subject is by and large by-passed for the most part in High School Biology classrooms.
The reason seems to be that discussing the subject separates the class into two groups, immediately, and the focus on the one topic can suddenly dominate, while parents may also visit the teacher in time consuming and wasted discussions.
On the other hand, student attention and involvement does benefit, as classrooms will become highly charged with personal interest.
What I would like to see is a part of the curriculum set aside to compromise the whole issue by enumeration the numerous correspondences between the facts of science and Genesis.
The real boiling point of the present social debate is focused on denying what religious say about Genesis, not what Genesis actually says, so these corresponding statement are overlooked.
The effect has become to oppose Religion or oppose Science.
That is terrible.
Compromise is a weak word when synthesize is better.
The Big Bang was a beginning.
The Earth was first an accretion ring without form and void of spherical shape.
Visible light did not exist until the stars were formed.
The atmosphere was firmly set above the Lithosphere below.
Pangaea was a moment in time when "all the waters under heaven were collected into one place."
The first life did appear in a Spontaneous Generation.
The Plant Kingdom became established before the Animal Kingdom.
Man was created by the dust of a chemistry that genetically fused two Ape Chromosomes.
Etc etc etc....
The Institution of Education OUGHT come to the rescue of the Institution of Religion because these are both members of the seven foundational Social Institutions that worked together to form the Social Force which binds us together in our Social Contract.
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