The primary reason this peculiar American phenomenon of 'evolution denial'...is that a small but vocal minority of religious fundamentalists misread the theory of evolution as a challenge to their deeply held religious convictions. Make no mistake about it. Creationists do not want equal time. They want all the time...

...highly educated religious men are justifying their faith with sophisticated scientistic arguments. This is old-time religion dressed up in newfangled language. The words change but the arguments remain the same. (M. Shermer, Science Friction)

If each statement in biology, geography, history, physics, chemistry, archeology has to be checked with what all faiths in the world may have stated differently at one time, there could be no meaningful science education at all. That's a very good reason to exclude all religions from schools and universities.

Wolfgang