I think part of it's that there _is_ such a controversy over evolution. Galileo's theory is pretty much universally accepted, correct? Well, obviously (as evidenced by this discussion) evolution is not. I imagine they taught the controversy of the round earth theory back when there was one. Anyway, all this controversy junk is really just the background of how we found out about evolution, in the same way that Franklin's angst was part of the background of the discovery of the structure of DNA. You don't _just_ learn the theory, they teach you other stuff, too.
...And, actually, the church was a huge part of Darwin's life. He didn't publish his book for six years or whatever because of the church- it did influence him.
Also, abiogenesis is not a part of evolution. No one really has a good theory for that, so they avoid it, because they don't want to confuse their students with things they don't have answers for. Similarly, they don't teach us about infinity in math class, because all we would be left with would be random, most likely wrong theories.
...And, actually, the church was a huge part of Darwin's life. He didn't publish his book for six years or whatever because of the church- it did influence him.
Also, abiogenesis is not a part of evolution. No one really has a good theory for that, so they avoid it, because they don't want to confuse their students with things they don't have answers for. Similarly, they don't teach us about infinity in math class, because all we would be left with would be random, most likely wrong theories.
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His physics was terrible.
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