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To: Right Wing Professor
Just as well. Before Kansas reversed itself, we were considering refusing to accept biology credits from any school system that taught creationism. There no reason why a science department should accept pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo from fundamentalist religious fanatics, any more than we should accept the prohibition on usury in the Koran as a valid form of economics, or Vedic astrology as a branch of science.

But you don't mind pushing your religion on our kids against the will of parents do you? It's called atheism. think you should read the U.S. Constitution before I mistake you for a communist tyrant. This statement of yours smacks of tyranny. What country do you think this is - Cuba? You and the elitist tyrants who run the govt schools think you own our kids and you can teach them what you want, when you want, no matter what parents think. You don't own my kids and you have NOTHING to say about their education. Got it Fidel? I'm here to tell you that you can't have my kids. Anyone with any sense will pull their kids out of the govt schools now and forever. Take your dictatorship back to North Korea.

2,310 posted on 07/14/2003 2:27:51 PM PDT by exmarine
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To: exmarine
But you don't mind pushing your religion on our kids against the will of parents do you? It's called atheism.

No it's called "evolution". The view that evolution=atheism is a minority religious view. Most Christians in America believe that evolution is compatible with theism. Therefore the best idea, so long as we have public (government) schools, is to simply teach the current content of science (whatever it be) and either not comment on the relation of any scientific theory to broader theological or philosophical questions, such as theism, or to clearly distinguish such questions from science per se.

Your claim to be worried about offending parents is bogus and stems only from special pleading. You would have the curricula reordered on the assumption that particular scientific theories are in fact opposed to theism, and this would be offensive to many more parents.

2,373 posted on 07/14/2003 4:37:55 PM PDT by Stultis
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To: exmarine; Right Wing Professor
Got it Fidel?

Oh, Brother! [rolling eyes]

2,375 posted on 07/14/2003 4:39:17 PM PDT by Stultis
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To: exmarine
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I don't dispute your right to teach your unfortunate kids any bizarre idiocy you want. What I do dispute is your right to force me to accept such nonsense as 'biology'. Capisci?

2,826 posted on 07/15/2003 9:18:46 AM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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