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Originally Posted by tecoyah
After both are taught.....let the Kids decide which is more accurate.
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This is not done for any other concept in high school except for possibly the ones based purely on aesthetics. And there's a good reason for that. Nothing would ever get done otherwise. You could spend the entire course discussing evolution, and you would have still only scratched the surface for why it is accepted.
High school is not (and cannot be) about presenting all relevant arguments for the things taught there. It can at best show that the content of its curriculum is plausible. You are just supposed to accept that the people who spend their lives thinking about biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, history, etc. probably know some basic things about their fields. It is the duty of high school to teach you about their conclusions. The reasoning used to get there is usually very complicated. Even minor subjects could easily require years of dedicated study to truly appreciate.
So most importantly, there is absolutely no argument over evolution from the people who actually are actually qualified to critique it. There is therefore no reason for high school teachers to treat it as if it were controversial.