Originally Posted by cbwm

While natural selection may be a theory with quite a bit of evidence to back it up, they are still a LONG way off from establishing Natural Selection as the origin of life, with little or no facts in that regard. If we are in the business of teaching nothing but facts, it would do our teachers well to make clear they really don't know how life began.

The sections of public school textbooks on Natural Selection don't explain the origin of life but how it has developed since the first chemical made it possible.

Nevertheless, the origin of life remains a scientific, philosophical, and religious subject. Why would we leave it out?

Additionally, there are holes of monumental proportions in the understanding of how we got from the first chemical to the human level of awareness we experience today. I recall Forrest quoting the discovery of one(1) transitional fossil, of which I am not aware. How many transitional fossils does that leave to be discovered for evolution to get us to where we are today?

If teaching and study are the process of learning, its interesting how our public schools have chosen to discard an entire field.

Originally Posted by cbwm

How many transitional fossils does that leave to be discovered for evolution to get us to where we are today?

A lot less than "poof Jebus did it".