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To: snarks_when_bored

Great! Teach creation in sunday school, not science class. That's where it always belonged.


12 posted on 12/20/2005 8:00:14 AM PST by Alter Kaker ("Whatever tears one sheds, in the end one always blows one's nose." - Heine)
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To: Alter Kaker

Because evolution is the only scientificly proven "theory" about the existence ofthe universe.

I always thought we are told to be tolerant of other peoples beliefs and their world views. All are equal unless it involves God.


22 posted on 12/20/2005 8:06:29 AM PST by laxin4him (They will know by our love not our picket lines)
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To: Alter Kaker

Evolution should be referred to correctly in the government schools. As a theory.


296 posted on 12/20/2005 9:42:35 AM PST by Protagoras (Many people teach their children that Jesus is story character but Santa Claus is real.)
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To: Alter Kaker

In 300 BC, Socrates (470-399BC) engaged his learners by asking questions (know as the Socratic or dialectic method). He often insisted that he really knew nothing, but his questioning skills allowed others to learn by self-generated understanding.

Plato (428-348 BC), who was a student of Socrates and the teacher of Aristotle, wrote down the Dialogues, which have inspired thinkers for more than two thousand years. Plato called this process the dialectic, and considered it the pinnacle of learning. One of the significant features of the dialogical (dialectic) method is that it emphasizes collective, as against solitary activity. This is a question and answer form of arguing with an "expert" on one side and a "searcher" on the other. In the dialogues, the questioning of the expert by the searcher often exposes gaps in the reasoning. It is through this back and forth argument amongst friends (or adversaries) that understanding grows and becomes revealed to the learners. Such philosophical pursuit alongside and within a full education allows humans to transcend their desires and sense in order to attain true knowledge.


589 posted on 12/20/2005 11:25:23 AM PST by ChinaThreat (s)
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To: Alter Kaker

The point your missing is that schools have a right to teach whatever they want. A judge should not be determining what a school can and cannot teach.

Or would you prefer a judge make the determination that a school can't teach about Pearl Harbor, or the rape of Nanking, or let's say the Holocaust.


1,123 posted on 12/20/2005 2:44:53 PM PST by Almondjoy
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To: Alter Kaker
"Teach creation in sunday school, not science class."

Intelligent Design is not creationism. Do you know the difference? I doubt it. Are you familiar with holes in Darwin's Theory? Don't think so. Do you know what the proposed curriculum change was in the science classes at Dover? Don't think so.
1,306 posted on 12/20/2005 4:13:44 PM PST by Ceewrighter (O'er the land of the free and the Home of the brave!)
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