No Child Left Informed

Pardon my epistemology, but evolution is a fact. There is still a lively debate over the mechanisms and timelines, but that life evolved on earth over billions of years is just plain fact. If you deny the fact of evolution, you might as well assert that the sun revolves around the earth.

Of course, some people still believe in an earth-centered solar system, and some people still believe that the earth and all life on it was created by God a few thousand years ago. And that's fine. But it's not fine to say these beliefs deserve to be taught as valid scientific alternatives to heliocentrism and evolution.

It seems that every few years the battle to get evolution tossed out of the public schools heats up. And thanks to No Child Left Behind, which mandates a nationwide review of science standards, we are seeing it happen all over again. No rest for the reality-based community, it seems.