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To: wintertime
I am an evolutionist

Methinks she doth protest too much

They defend government schools that FORCE evolution on resistant children and demand that other tax payers pay for this forced indoctrination.

We also 'force' math on the poor dears. You don't object to that.

Nobody is forcing high school kids to take biology, They can take shop, if they prefer. What they can't do is neglect to learn about the central paradigm in biology and still claim they've taken biology.

615 posted on 04/21/2006 12:55:39 AM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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To: Right Wing Professor
We also 'force' math on the poor dears. You don't object to that.

Nobody is forcing high school kids to take biology, They can take shop, if they prefer. What they can't do is neglect to learn about the central paradigm in biology and still claim they've taken biology.
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Even math has political, cultural, and religious consequences, and is NOT neutral. Even math establishes the worldview of some while undermining that of others and it does have religious consequences.

http://www.brookings.edu/views/op-ed/ravitch/20050620.htm

While no one is specifically forced to take biology, they ARE forced to assembly with those who do. A child can not exempt himself from the entire culture of the school. This social environment of other students and teachers will have political, cultural, and religious consequences.
623 posted on 04/21/2006 5:38:37 AM PDT by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are not stupid.)
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