If you just take a single human and put him or her in the forest he or she might not do very well without some sort of education which he got or she got from some tribe.

Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate.

The thing about a theory in science is it allows you make predictions. Evolutionary theory allows us to predict what apples will taste good next harvest.

If we raise a generation of students who dont believe in the process of science, who think everything that weve come to know about nature and the universe can be dismissed by a few sentences translated into English from some ancient text, youre not going to continue to innovate.

From an evolutionary standpoint you can't just wipe everything out and start over, and I don't think you can do it in the school system either.

Reading their letters and the First Amendment of the US Constitution, I infer that this nation's founders noted that religions have been at the center of great deal of trouble, so they precluded the US government from getting involved in religion, i.e. "... shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." Over the centuries, various religions have laid claim to various morals; consider the difficulties outsiders are having today in the Middle East, for example.

If you look back on all the teachers that you liked, I am sure you will find they were very entertaining.