Blinding them with science

Intelligent design theorists and their claims to scientific legitimacy aside, the only reason the vast majority of people who want intelligent design taught in high school want it is because they believe it will undercut the corrosive effects of evolutionary biology on the religious beliefs of their children. They don't know and couldn't care less about the scientific details of the evolution of blood cascades—they just want Darwinism kept away from their kids.

So, when fluffies breed, will they want to keep their kids away from Hutton?

It's easy to say, "Oh, those so-called fluffies. They're just going through a phase." Often, that's true. But they're also setting up a foundation based on willful ignorance, and then working to inculcate others to that ignorance. Not all of them wash out or get distracted.

So what to do? It is not the role of public schools to confirm the religious beliefs of their students. Parents who want their children to benefit from the latest findings of science would reasonably be irked if evolutionary biology were expunged from the public school curriculum. There is another way around this conundrum. Get rid of public schools.

There's a great idea. That way, everyone can stay in their own comfortable enclave, never being exposed to new ideas or perspectives.

This proposal lowers political and social conflict, and eventually those made fitter in the struggle for life by better education will win. At least that's my theory.

Oh, if only social systems worked so neatly.