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As long as he's considering a senate run, it might be helpful to be reminded of one of his first forays into the national press. NYT, 1995:
Then, on Jan. 17, the Rev. Paul Norwalt, pastor of the Merrimack Baptist Temple, appeared before the board to urge that creationism and evolution be treated equally in classrooms.
"I can't prove my model, and they can't prove their model," he said.
Under the proposal, the board would replace its current science textbooks in September with those that would teach both evolution and creationism as "assumptions," with the Bible used as a class resource.
...State education leaders say they will not intervene if the measure passes. The chairman of the State Board of Education, Ovide Lamontagne, said last Monday that he had no objection to a local district "teaching about creation science as an alternative to evolution" and that the Bible could appropriately be used in class as "anecdotal evidence" to support the lesson.
I agree the two should be brought side to side. For example, recently the world's leading paleontologists shared some of their assumptions with that of the Creation Museum. NYT, 2009:
"I'm speechless," said Derek E.G. Briggs, director of the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale, who walked around with crossed arms and a grimace. "It's rather scary."
Adding: This post makes me nostalgic. I remember that back in my strict Catholic High School in the late 80's, we were encouraged by our 10th grade religion teacher, a Christian Brother, to consider the creation stories allegorically. I also remember that being one of my favorite classes at school and the one where I discovered the beauty and wisdom of the Beatitudes. Strange how weirdly the evolution "debate" has turned since then.
