@spendius,
While we are on about cookery classes it might be worth saying that rhetoric aiming at teaching evolution theory in school classrooms which pays no heed to the social consequences is similar to that aspect of food pornography which flatters the palate of the multitude without any regard for their health.
My challenge to the teaching of evolution is based upon the abject failure of the proponents of it to pay the slightest attention to the social consequences of doing so and that this failure is so glaringly obvious that, so far at least, those proponents are not taking the matter seriously but are playing a self-indulgent and self-justifying game in which the well being of the multitude is the ball to be kicked about at their solitary individual pleasure.
But I will admit that nothing else can be expected of an evolutionist if he is consistent. The pleasures of rhetoric are freely granted. It is delightful to hold forth and the pleasure increases as the skill in the art improves. It is well known that excellent rhetoricians are addicted to the sound of themselves holding forth and when they are heedless of the well being of the multitude, the passions of which are easily swayed, their flights of fancy can easily range over uncharted territory and can prove quite dangerous.
Deficiences in the skill can be to some extent made up for by a propaganda blitz coming from a coalition of interests where quantity substitutes for quality.
His problem arises when he has persuaded everybody else to play the same game and he starts whining about being the ball in someone else's game whose right to also play that game he has conceded by claiming it for himself unless, of course, he claims rights which he denies to others. Which I expect he does.
