text: who would agree with my that evolution has become a religion and should be seperate from statefunded education   not in the least.  evolution is a scientific theory.  there are certainly atheist materialists that have tried to say that the only logical conclusion of evolution is atheism, but they are fools and liars, one and all.  the fact is that the tehory of evolution by natural selection is a) scientifically founded and b) not at odds with a belief in god.  if you don't agree with eveolution being taught, then quite frankly, you don't agree with the idea of teaching science at all.  it is all consostent with scientific methodology.  if that's the case, then oppose all science, and don't just pick-and-choose which findings you're going to take issue with.  *********edit********* what's with this "equal time" crap?!?!?  would you guys suggest equal time for alchemy and chemistry?  for astrology and astronomy?  for newtonian physics and psychokinetics?  what you all are missing is that even if id/creationism is correct, it has no use to humans.  period.  i cannot manipulate the theory of creationism to create a vaccine, the way i can manipulate evolution.  school is not about some sort of all-out investigation into divine truth; it is meant to be practical.  and like it or not, the theory of evolution by natural selection has practical applications.  we do not teach how to use the altair computer, because it's pointless; not because the functioning of it is any "less true" than the modern pc.  we do not teach basket weaving or bricklaying in school, because they have very little usefulness.  but every person who ever takes antibiotics or who ever uses a disinfectant on the kitchen counter can learn something useful about the nature of evolution.  this "choice" notion is utterly ridiculous.  should phrenology be taught side-by-side with classical conditioning?  should swahili be taught with the same regularity that spanish is taught?  you people are talking nonsense.  do you really want the national dialogue on the nature of god to be controlled by the federal government?  do you have the faintest idea how detrimental that would be to the american christian community? think!!!!!  for schneb: random variation is only a part of evolution.  natural selection is an entirely non-random process.  i'd wager a few thousand dollars that one could easily make a program that would randomly trigger pixels on the monitor, and select and retain pixels that had some resemblance of the windows logo, and in time, one would get a refined and accurate windows logo.  randomness in variation is only a part of the picture, and you ideologues have decided to cling to that part of the theory and ignore the rest--especially ignoring the vast amount of biochemical support for the theory, none of which could have been known to darwin--in order to distort the case for the theory, which is very, very strong.  do you realize how long a billion years really is?  life has been around for ~3.5 billion years.  today you will pass 100 billion to 10 trillion e. coli into the toilet.  think about the size of these numbers!  think about the number of generations in the vast, vast oceans!  these sorts of statistically "impossible" things happne all the time.  do you realize that the entire function of the neurons that let you read this depend on trillions of random moleculra collisions that eventually reach the right spot?  it's all random, brownian motion that allows ions to diffuse in and out of the channels, that makes the gates open and close, that makes the synaptobrevin and synatotagmin and snap-25 proteins collide and fuse the cells membranes to spill the neurotransmitter into the cleft where it will randomly bump around the synapse and then randomly bind to a post-synaptic receptor, all before randomly bouncing around until it hits the reuptake proteins that will sequester the neurotransmitter.  i'm not making any of that up, and it happnes billions and billions of times just 