I'm currently taking physical anthropology, so allow me to interject.
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In addition, any science teacher out there teaching evolution as if it's faith, ie. incontravertible, should be fired. The first thing you ought to teach kids in science is what a theory is, how to test it, how to replicate tests and just what it takes to call a theory a fact.
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Most definietely. There are no absolute facts, just theories that are so well supported that almost everyone accepts them as fact.
Evolution is accepted by the vast majority of the public and the scientific community as being most likely. Creationism is not. If we were to teach every single alternative scientific theory out there that is merely on the fringe and not accepted by most scientists, we'd be in school the rest of our lives.
Evolution need not be taught as being true. Someone could teach a course about Hinduism and teach the basics of it, but that doesn't mean that they have to teach that Hinduism is the only true religion. Merely learning
about something is one thing. Being told that it is the only correct way to think is another. A person can learn about Hinduism without becoming a Hindu, and a person can learn about evolution without becoming an evolutionist.