Hilmar,
I would agree with you that the general level of science as taught in secondary and primary schools is dated. However, evolution is a different matter because it is not taught as Science but as Faith. Follow this thread and you will see the Faith of many who expouse evolution. Here is a faith statemnt - Time + Chance = Order. No matter how the issue is wrapped up in this or that theory or whatever Scientific terminology it remains a matter of Faith. However this is a strange Faith because those who hold it deny that it is Faith. One of the respondents went into a lengthy discussion of how cells were formed via Evolution. What he was presenting was purely theoretical, but he was presenting it as fact. I say theoretical because it is not disprovable. What is not testable nor disprovable must be accepted by Faith.