Scopes revisited

[sawyl]

I see from the news that one of my padre's colleagues is speaking in defence of ID on the grounds that, "it seems to me in many respects the cards are stacked against radical, innovative views getting a fair hearing in science these days." Fine and dandy, but taking a purely pragmatic view, if you're going to teach controversial scientific theories to kids you might as well spent time on an interesting up and coming theory rather than something that was comprehensively debunked a century ago.