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To: BroJoeK

That’s like saying “you may not like it, but the church/state upholds Aristotle over Galileo and that is the way it is”. Government getting into science destroys both its credibility and its impartiality. I prefer science, myself.


186 posted on 11/16/2014 8:22:49 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
Olog-hai: "That’s like saying “you may not like it, but the church/state upholds Aristotle over Galileo and that is the way it is”.
Government getting into science destroys both its credibility and its impartiality.
I prefer science, myself."

You are, of course, totally entitled to teach whatever you wish about creation vs. evolution in your own home-school, or private school.
You can also research and publish yourself whatever findings you suppose are important on the subject.

But tax-payer dependent government-schools fall under the US Constitution's prohibition against "establishment of religion".
And when the US Constitution does mention "science", it is clearly as our Founders understood the word -- natural-science and technology.

That is why US courts have consistently ruled against efforts of anti-science people like yourself to impose your religious ideas on public school natural-science classes, or to redefine the word "science" to suit your own purposes.

I'll say it again: I believe that Creationism should be taught in government-schools, in strictly voluntary elective religion classes, taught by qualified clergy.

No other public school solution pays the subject proper respect.

222 posted on 11/18/2014 8:36:20 AM PST by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective..)
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