Why should creationists insist on teaching creationism in public schools when they do not teach evolutionism in their own churches and religious schools?
This criticism reveals a serious misunderstanding of the nature of public schools and other tax-supported institutions. They are funded by both creationist and evolutionist citizens, and therefore both basic scientific models of origins should be taught in them, as objectively as possible. If Christians want to have ONLY creation taught, then they should establish private schools for that purpose. By the same token, if secularists or others want to have only evolution taught, they should establish private humanistic schools for that purpose. For evolutionists to insist that their evolutionary religion should be subsidized by the taxes of creationists is both arrogant and unconstitutional. The two-model approach — teaching both evolution and creation on a strictly scientific and objective basis — is the only approach in the public schools which is consistent with the constitution, with civil rights, religious neutralism, scientific objectivity, educational effectiveness, academic free
