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To: refreshed
By the way, how confident are you in Darwinian evolution being the way everything came about?

I am as confident in Darwin as I am in Newton as the thinker whose theories best explain the available evidence. Both have seen their work added to and modified, though not rejected outright, by new-found evidence and improved observation.

So confident that a dissenting voice might upset the whole apple cart?

No one is closing churches. There are no SWAT teams massing outside the Discovery Institute. Flat Earthers, Young Earth creationists, UFOlogists, all are welcome to spin their hypotheses. They do not have a right to promote them in public schools.

If you want to change the scientific consensus, the place to start is in science -- in the lab, not the classroom. The push to get creationism/ID into high school biology is like trying to teach kids in driver's ed how to drive a hydrogen fuel cell car instead of focusing on building one.

20 posted on 01/19/2009 11:52:47 PM PST by ReignOfError
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To: ReignOfError
They do not have a right to promote them in public schools.

Yet you seem to think that what you believe ought to be taught in public schools at public expense should just simply naturally occur and never be subject to the turbulence of public policy debate and discussion.

191 posted on 01/21/2009 1:12:17 PM PST by YHAOS
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