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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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To: BroJoeK

You are again giving credence to big government here, as well as government control of both religion and science. That is not what the USA was founded on, particularly per the First Amendment.


229 posted on 11/18/2014 9:16:34 AM PST by Olog-hai
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