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To: whattajoke
"Amazingly, the other 'big 3' of world religions differ in their own creation myths . . ."

Yes indeed. Would you consider the differences to be dramatic? Exclusive of one another? Are you driving at the point that, in order to open the classroom to creationist considerations we must necessarily open the classroom to every single religious view on the matter?

"We made from water everything living? Will they not then believe?"

Looking at the surface of things, one would never imagine that living beings are made chiefly of water. Does this saying hold true by scientific testing? How much of the human body, for example, is made of water?

2,204 posted on 01/02/2003 10:30:18 AM PST by Fester Chugabrew
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To: Fester Chugabrew
Are you driving at the point that, in order to open the classroom to creationist considerations we must necessarily open the classroom to every single religious view on the matter?

Well done. That's exactly what I'd propose. Of course, who knows how many African creation myths there are in addition to the hundreds of others. The important thing is this: Whether a scientist be Buddhist, Christian, Hindi, Inuit, Incan or Moslem, they still agree on the universality of evolution. Their religious ideas are kept at home and at the church/temple/mosque/fire ring. And so it should be!

How much of the human body, for example, is made of water?

While my point wasn't to show that any other creation myth is somehow "better" than christianity's, since you asked the question, and since I'm not sure if you're being rhetorical, water makes up the vast majority of our body mass.
2,218 posted on 01/02/2003 10:47:01 AM PST by whattajoke
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To: Fester Chugabrew
Are you driving at the point that, in order to open the classroom to creationist considerations we must necessarily open the classroom to every single religious view on the matter?

Starting each class of every subject in every school with every adult and child repeating the first sentence of the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence would resolve this issue.

2,237 posted on 01/02/2003 11:56:10 AM PST by Tribune7
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