I don't see it as a religion versus science dispute, it's entirely political in my eyes, one spectrum wants to completely exclude and "ban" the other from existence and they feed on their cause.
Unless you live in a small hegemonic principalty or a little village, it's unpractible to teach religion in public schools, the purpose of a school is to prepare the individual for adult life, it is far better to leave religion outside and let the family handle that, adding religion to the public curriculum can have too many disavantages, there are private schools for that, and anywhere a population is unhappy about the lack of religion in the public school, they can organize and set their own classes after school, the effect would be the same.
However, this harmonious acceptable atmosphere is nowhere near the real debate, those who use the creationism flag want Darwin out for good, and the ones who took the other flag want to destroy not creationism, but the religion itself. The public schools were turned into WWI trench warfare, and all soldiers are slowly rotting in their trenches, blind pawns fighting for a lost cause.
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