My qualia to the religious right's attempt to redefine science within public education is one of repugnance and disgust.
When I was in Jr High School in Vestal NY I did an essay on evolution that was heavily footnoted with sources from the Scientific American magazine. I was punished, censored, sent to the Principal's office and my parents were summoned. I wrote "Man and other animals..." The objection to what I had written was monumental. I was told Man was not an animal. I said "is Man a mammal?". Their arguments did not refer to scripture then but the school's animosity to evolution was clearly evident.
Three years later my high school was denied the "priviledge" of doing the senior play 'Inherit the Wind'.
I naievely believed that parochial rule would have lost the battle against science by the time I grew up.
The propoganda tool of putting the truth on the defensive, is a very effective and damaging weapon.
Will survival of the fittest determine the winner? Few people can become scientists but vast swarms of the under educated can be a religious stupidigent designer.