I spent my whole school years in a two Catholic schools and whole time I respectfully questioned those things which, even to a child, didn't make any sense. I tried my hardest to believe what I was being taught by very sincere Jesuit brothers and and when I failed, I was thrown out of class, or caned... but being the person that I am, I could never just accept dogma without mentally testing it for flaws. I spent the last 2 years in school knowing that I would never accept the authority of men in frocks who answered every question with either "Have faith" or "Get out".

""My alarm with the Christian right & creationism is their unrelenting campaign to destroy the teaching of science in our school systems, because I will say again that dogma is not and never can be called science.""

Me too, as far as the evangelists and proselytisers of that ilk are concerned.

I do think, however, that Pete has expressed his own views without doing either, and shows no inclination to interfere with education in any way.

I think that some here are mistaking him for the school board fruitcakes of the American Christian Right. UK education authorities tend to be rather more sensible than that.

Don T.