John - We cross-posted back there - my last post was in response to your second-last, if you follow me.


"...asked another way...

Do you know any serious agnostic/atheist who doesn't believe that their god-free belief is firmly grounded in science?"


I don't see what that has to do with the question of whether there are "a lot of zealots in the schools teaching that science -- and evolution -- disprove the existence of a god". This is either happening or it isn't. I had about seven different Science teachers in the course of my elementary and secondary schooling, and I'm sure that not one of them ever mentioned how what they taught might relate to the idea of the existence of God, in any class I was in. If Science teachers in your part of the world are proselytizing for atheism, they should be reined in - but that should not mean compelling them to teach religion instead of science.

But I wonder how many of your science teachers actually consider themselves atheists?