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To: tacticalogic

Posted many times before.

Private Christian schools and homeschoolers teach creation and evolution side by side, the same thing the majority of people in this country want done as evidenced by many polls.

Plain and simple. Teaching creation in school does not hurt science education. It didn’t in the past, it doesn’t in private and homeschools which do it now.

Perhaps you could provide some evidence that teaching creation in schools would hurt the education of kids in schools. Some data would be helpful. Bear in mind, however, that the current decline the academic standards in science and math is happening concurrently with the teaching of evolution alone in public schools. Go ahead, show that creation would make it worse, instead of making unsubstantiated claims.

http://www.evolutionnews.org/2006/03/americans_overwhelmingly_suppo.html

Headline: “Americans Overwhelmingly Support Teaching Scientific Challenges to Darwinian Evolution, Zogby Poll Shows” From March 2006.

http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/filesDB-download.php?command=download&id=719

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Free Republic Poll on Evolution
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1706571/posts?page=63#63

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Creationism makes a comeback in US
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1856224/posts

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Teaching creation and evolution in schools
Solid research reveals American beliefs
http://www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v13/i2/teaching.asp

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Survey Finds Support Is Strong For Teaching 2 Origin Theories
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B07E4D9143BF932A25750C0A9669C8B63

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Public Divided on Origins of Life
http://people-press.org/report/254/religion-a-strength-and-weakness-for-both-parties

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Americans Believe in Jesus, Poll Says (creation poll results included)
http://derekgulbranson.com/2005/01/17/americans-believe-in-jesus/
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SAT/ACT homeschoolers:
http://www.hslda.org/docs/news/hslda/200105070.asp

Standardized test scores homeschoolers:
http://www.hslda.org/docs/nche/000010/200410250.asp


116 posted on 01/21/2009 8:07:50 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom

Posted many times before.


Many many times...but the cultists just keep ignoring it, as if it’s not there.

It seems the best they can do is connect Islam to Christianity.

As if that’s been a remotely successful tactic.

Most of these people with these severe God-hang-ups are quite helpless.


147 posted on 01/21/2009 11:42:09 AM PST by tpanther (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing---Edmund Burke)
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To: metmom
The claim is that teaching evolution is what's causing us to fall behind the rest of the world in science education.

If that's the case, you should be able to easily provide examples of other countries that teach creationism as science, and are ahead of us in science education because of it.

Can you do that?

218 posted on 01/21/2009 2:20:21 PM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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