SecularFrummy: This is old (I wasn’t around last night) but sorry- It was really late at night and I messed up reading :). I actually had a whole post that had something about how bacteria reproduce with binary fission (I didn’t bring up conjugation) but for some reason it never ended up posted- I probably just forgot about it :).
Sorry that I don’t mention who it is (I’m on a new page now), but someone had a great point when he/she talked about WHY schools don’t teach evolution. The concepts of evolution aren’t kefiradik- especially the stuff we’ve all been discussing, like natural selection, that’s all able to be empirically proven and applied now. Anything prehistoric could even be able to be taught just as applying the concepts you learn to a different (even hypothetical, if you so choose) scenario. The question is- why so scared to teach it? If you don’t want questions, why not? If you haven’t got the answers, I’d say that’s a bigger problem. If you do have answers, then what are you afraid of?