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To: Aric2000
Public schools are secular, they are not allowed to favor one religion over another. You wish your children to learn about Pagans ideas of creation, how about Hindu, or perhaps druidic notions?

Who's talking about religion in schools? Certainly not I. What we are talking about is whether a certain scientific theory which has little or no proof behind it should be taught as fact. It certainly should not be. Nothing that is untrue should be taught in schools and evolution is just plain not true.

BTW - your 'canned' answer was totally non-responsive to my post which dealt with the fact that the theory of evolution, abiogenesis and a random universe are inextricably connected to each other and fall together if the existence of God is admitted in any of their spheres.

4,069 posted on 01/08/2003 10:47:10 PM PST by gore3000
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To: gore3000
Who's talking about religion in schools? Certainly not I. What we are talking about is whether a certain scientific theory which has little or no proof behind it should be taught as fact. It certainly should not be. Nothing that is untrue should be taught in schools and evolution is just plain not true.

To be honest, I really don't care if they teach evolution in schools yet until more facts are discovered. I don't think it advances critical thinking and hardly affects a student aged 5 - 18. But I am afraid that the next step will be taking away natural history. Do we stop telling children about the dinosaurs and how long ago they lived because the Young Earth believers want that taken away as well... When does it end? Do we teach meteorology class and imply that doors in the sky open up and dump water out?

4,076 posted on 01/09/2003 3:45:20 AM PST by B. Rabbit (But when the flim-flam metachondrial wizzums diolate into fricktopian sa.... Never mind, I'm dumb.)
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