I haven't taken recently to saying much about politics. I find the environment to be too abrasive lately. However, I do feel obliged to ring in on the debate occuring regarding the teaching of evolution in schools. It seems to me that legislators and even presidents don't understand what science is if they even have to have this discussion.

Maybe before they start throwing things into text books they should step back and re-evaluate their curriculum even earlier. Maybe they need to teach students what good science is and what critical thinking and reasoning skills can tell you about any scientific "theory." The short of it, any scientist who tries to sell you a bill of goods that there are scientific "laws." Or that a theory is proven probably also has some real nice ocean front property in Oklahoma.

The purpose of science is not to "prove" anything. The purpose of science is to test a hypothesis by trying to find ways that things work and don't work. Evolution is constantly undergoing scrutiny even in the scientific world. With that being said, it seems that if you taught students rational, critical thinking then they could approach science and evolution from the standpoint of objective observers. Maybe one if we teach students the scientific method earlier they could find a way to show that evolution may not work the way we think it does.

Also, why do we have this idea that science, evolution, and religion are mutually exclusive? Do we still want to hold onto old philosophical ideas of G-d as the unmoved mover? Of a G-d who can't be involved in the day to day operation of the universe. There are so many unknown things about how the universe is, and there are so many complexities to life and the universe, I personally think it makes G-d that much more magnificient that he could hold such a delicate balance together.

That's just how I think about it.