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To: P-Marlowe
God will show us exactly how he made the heavens and the earth and all that in them is in 6 days, just like he wrote down on the tablets of stone. And we will understand. And we will marvel.

And He will explain how he hid all those bones and other artifacts and we will share in His Joke on Mankind.

All that nonsense at the Dover school; all that inquiry into the intents of those who drafted the disclaimer would be irrlevant if the Lemon Test did not demand a "religious test" for legislation that creates the kind of entanglement between the courts and religion that logically would be prohibited by the excessive entanglement prong of the same stupid test.

Look, I know your quals in the legal arena, but here you are treading water. The entanglement was brought by those who suggested that religion (the Creation Myth) somehow should be introduced as "an alternative theory." Creationism and ID are no more "alternate theories" than "angels hold airplanes aloft" is an "alternate theory" of aerodynamics.

This is the court DISentangling the religion quagmire.

86 posted on 05/25/2006 6:38:57 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (I LIKE you! When I am Ruler of Earth, yours will be a quick and painless death </Stewie>)
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To: freedumb2003; xzins; blue-duncan; jude24
Creationism and ID are no more "alternate theories" than "angels hold airplanes aloft" is an "alternate theory" of aerodynamics.

But it is not a question for courts to decide, is it? By attempting to use the courts to disqualify a scientific theory because it has religious overtones sets a very bad precedent. IOW you are relying on the courts to validate your own scientific theories and to invalidate the theories of those with whom you disagree. Is that what you want?

Or would you prefer to just have an open no-holds-barred discussion in the schools and let students use their minds, instead of their lawyers, to resolve these conflicts?

Hmmmm?

What the hell are you afraid of?

107 posted on 05/25/2006 6:54:30 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (((172 * 3.141592653589793238462) / 180) * 10 = 30.0196631)
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