"Creation science" has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple
and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is false,
and because good teachers understand exactly why it is false. What
could be more destructive of that most fragile yet most precious
commodity in our entire intellectually heritage -- good teaching -- than
a bill forcing honorable teachers to sully their sacred trust by
granting equal treatment to a doctrine not only known to be false, but
calculated to undermine any general understanding of science as an
enterprise?
-- Stephen Jay Gould, "The Skeptical Inquirer", Vol. 12, page 186
