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Well, I think the reason that the discussion has drifted is that the original question is practically rhetorical. We know that nothing positive comes from telling people that dinosaurs are, at most, six thousand years old, and that God carved the Grand Canyon with His hand in the matter of a day or two. We know that Fundamentalism is creeping into our schools and assaulting reason because the dwindling power base is desperate but still powerful in pockets around the nation.
In the end, I think it is a political consideration of people who want the masses to stoically persevere through God's challenges and go to heaven for their troubles, rather than valuing the here-and-now and demanding change to makes things better for them and their children.
Call me cynical. But I've always seen our public K-18 program to be more of an indoctrination than an education to begin with. This ID business is just the gravy.
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"The idea that money doesn't buy you happiness is a lie put about by the rich, to stop the poor from killing them." -- Michael Caine
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