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To: Fester Chugabrew
What's the big deal?

2450 posts and you ask what the big deal is?! For those theists who accept the fact of evolution, and can reconcile that with their spiritual beliefs, there is nothing to worry about. (Stephen Jay Gould, for one, believed in the spiritual realm). But for those who can't, it IS a big deal. It comes down to having science books and classes discuss the mechanisms of evolution (and of course, all the other associated disciplines) versus a teacher saying, "Goddidit," now lets study kinetic energy or covalent bonds and ignore biology. That, to me, is a big deal.
2,452 posted on 01/03/2003 8:16:46 AM PST by whattajoke
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To: whattajoke
"2450 posts and you ask what the big deal is?!"

I'm sure we could go another 2450 posts and not have it figured out. Does this bother you? What does the number of posts devoted to the subject have to do with the validity of either side's arguments?

"For those theists who accept the fact of evolution . . . But for those who can't . . . "

The world is full of both kinds, and both have contributed great things to science. Is it proper in a constitutional democracy to deny one party either hearing or say in tax funded public schools? Neither can sufficiently prove or disprove their own views, and in my view, neither is particularly well suited to domination or total exclusion.

Unless evolutionists want to be so dumb as to say creationism does not exist, they ought to be willing to give it equal time in the classroom. As a firm believer in creationism myself, I would be doing a disservice to my children if I did not expose them to the teachings of evolution.

In short, the closed-mindedness of of evolutionist politics is astonishing in view of the fact it is they who claim to be "scientific."

2,491 posted on 01/03/2003 10:14:36 AM PST by Fester Chugabrew
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