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... you teach school for a while, do textbook reviews, etc., and get back to me.
Believe me--every element of a science text has been covered in these previous texts I mentioned from the Biblical point of view.
Young students don't automatically challenge this stuff. They learn it and repeat it--that is precisely why there are so many people who believe this shit in the first place. A 2001 Gallup poll asked--"Would you say that you believe more the theory of evolution or the theory of creationism to explain the origin of human beings, or are you unsure"--the respective results were 28 percent, 48 percent, and 14 percent, with 10 percent saying they didn't know.
That's the result of religious indoctrination, to some degree, to inadequate science education, to some degree, but that poll was taken in an environment in which intelligent design wasn't being taught in the public schools at all.
The very important point, which I think you are missing here, is that for young children, the information being in their textbooks legitimizes it for them. That's the principal source for their school knowledge. Yes, as they grow older and gain more knowledge, they might challenge it on their own. But the attempt to include intelligent design (which is equivalent to saying postmodern creationism) in the curriculum is to legitimize it as a branch of science worthy of being taught as such, even though it is not science.
You can argue that the student will recognize the political nature of it instinctively. The polling data of adults--without this being taught in the school at this time--suggests otherwise.
Cheers.
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