What to Teach in Science Education?
Evolution is not an invariant law. There is no rule against teaching common descent from the existing highest form of intelligence.
Based on our uniform experience the existing highest form of intelligence is human intelligence. We have no verifiable evidence that non-human intelligence superior to human intelligence exists, or that human intelligence is the product of a lower form of non-human intelligence.
Without any verifiable evidence that human intelligence cannot exist prior to the universe, and generate the cosmic system for the production of human intelligence in its own image, there is no reason to believe in the origin of the universe and life from nonlife. Put simply, the immortality of human intelligence has never been falsified, and the principle of its immortality remains valid until human intelligence exists.
Human intelligence is immortal because it constitutes the cosmic system's input and output, similarly as a seed constitutes the tree system's input and output.
Just as a biocatalyst itself is not consumed by the transformations it causes, but emerges intact from the reactions, human intelligence itself -- being the seed of the universe -- is not consumed by the transformation it causes to generate the universe from the particles of chaos, but emerges intact from that creative process.
This is not the theory of intelligent design (ID) that fails to name the inferred designer. The theory of creation by human intelligence identifies the creator: the creator is human intelligence, human life, or the human genome's qualities.
As you may well know here in the United States it is forbidden by law to teach creation by an entity whose existence is not verifiable by the scientific method. In this theory of creation the creator is identified as human intelligence. The existence of human intelligence is so self-evident that it needs no verification by observation or experiments.
Because the existence of human intelligence is an undeniable empirical fact, there is no law that can prevent us from teaching creation by human intelligence, or even creation by a man. Man exists, human intelligence exists, human life exists, and the human genome exists. No one can deny the existence of any of these creative agents. Their existence is indubitable. No judge can tell us that the theory of universal common descent from human intelligence is not fact-based, but faith-based. If human intelligence is not a fact, then no fact exists.
So stop the systematic indoctrination of students with evolution from a simple beginning. Teach the reverse of Darwin's idea, i.e. universal common descent from human intelligence.
It is predictable that believers in descent from a simple beginning will ask: How do you explain the fossil record? I their mind fossils constitute proof that life evolves from a simple beginning, and that human intelligence did not exist prior to creation.
It's easy to demonstrate the irrationality of this evolutionist argument with an illustration taken from nature.
We know that the largest tree on earth is a giant Sequoia, estimated to be over two thousand years old. At least 97% of its mass is considered to be inanimate. So no one living today could have observed the generation of that giant. Yet, no informed person would argue that just because the millions of tiny winged seeds it yields did not exist prior to the leaves, twigs, branches, trunk, and roots, therefore no parent Sequoia seed existed prior to the birth of that giant, and that no parent seed played a creative role in its generation for the purpose of self-reproduction.
The point is that based on our uniform observations and experiences any system that yields organic output is itself the product of an organic input, which input is akin to the output. Put simply, when we observe that a tree yields acorn as its output, then reason tells us that an acorn akin to the output created the mighty oak for the production of progeny in its own image. So when we see that the universe yields human intelligence, and that the parameters of the universe are exquisitely fine-tuned for the production of human intelligence -- similarly as the parameters of an oak tree are exquisitely fine-tuned for the production of acorn --, then the best scientific theory is that the universe yields the complexity of human intelligence because human intelligence constitutes the creator, parent seed, or genotype of the phenotype universe.
If you're not convinced, the Creator will tell you who constitutes the cosmic system's input and output, or beginning and end: "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end" (Revelation 22:13).