If equal time rules were for everything, then equal time would have to be given to faith healing in medical schools. It isn't, and for good reason.

Science in its many disciplines is defined by scientists collecting evidence and supporting or disproving theories using the scientific method. The overwhelming majority of scientists support -- not "believe" -- evolutionary theory as the best model for explaining the physical world as we know it. People with a religious ax to grind have no evidence, but they do plenty of whining about unfairnness and "equal time". Let them be treated by the faith healers, then, and the rest of us can be treated by medical doctors whose science education is based on evolutionary theory. Or perhaps they wouldn't like to receive the logical consequences of their attempt to hijack science education.

"Equal time" rules were instituted to support equal access of all political views to the media, as it was noticed that some media outlets favored the candidates their owners favored. Political opinion is opinion only, requiring no more support than any other opinion. Political opinion requires no proof, and needs to follow no rules of evidence. There is no political equivalent of the scientific method. To apply the concept of "equal time" as we know it from politics to science makes no sense at all.

Creationist works display a profound ignorance of science. It may annoy creationists that scientists hold their ideas in contempt. I suppose you could say that sometimes scientists display a lack of tact when dealing with creationists. That's what you get, though, when people who don't know what they're talking about get on the last nerve of people who do.

I've said it before but I'll say it again. Religion is about faith and belief; science is about doubt and proof. Religion deals with things unseen and unknown; science deals with things perceived by the senses, sometimes assisted by equipment, using rules that make sense of those things. They are two different disciplines. When creationists use their absolute faith in the Bible to define -- or I should say, "confine" -- science, they make science look weak and religion look stoopid. Ultimately, though science is damaged, religion receives the greater injury.

Just ask the Catholic Church. They didn't get around to apologizing to Galileo until we had already landed people on the Moon.

I admire your faith in the intelligence of our children. I remind you that critical thought can only be exercised by people who have been taught to employ it. Teaching creationism in the science classroom would be OK in the service of critical thought, as an example of poor science, trotted out with the geocentric universe and the flat Earth to be thoroughly disproven in front of the whole science class.