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To: metmom
Scripture is very clear that when God created the various animals and man that He did not create them from each other. The different groups were created on different days in different acts of creation. When God says that He took the dust of the earth and formed man and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being, there is simply no way that that can be interpreted as saying that God evolved man from some apelike ancestor.

Here we are at the crux of the matter: if science conflicts with your interpretation of scripture, it is not the responsibility of scientists or educators to change their work to conform to your religious beliefs. I have no doubt that your religious beliefs are sincerely and deeply held, but that does not give you the ability to dictate either that those religious beliefs should be taught to others, or that anything conflicting with those beliefs be kept out of public schools.

213 posted on 01/21/2009 2:04:39 PM PST by Bosh Flimshaw
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To: Bosh Flimshaw; metmom

You keep getting it backwards...it is your side enforcing it’s religious views on everyone. The godless ideology is not the default position.

Normal rational scientists observe intelligent design, this is just a fact.


215 posted on 01/21/2009 2:09:14 PM PST by tpanther (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing---Edmund Burke)
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To: Bosh Flimshaw
I have no doubt that your religious beliefs are sincerely and deeply held, but that does not give you the ability to dictate either that those religious beliefs should be taught to others, or that anything conflicting with those beliefs be kept out of public schools.

So how does it give the atheist evo side the right to dictate that my beliefs not be allowed in public schools just because it conflicts with theirs? That is exactly what is happening. People don't want to be silenced like that. Do I need to post the poll results AGAIN to show what the majority of people in this country want? Does the taxpaying majority not have the right to have taught what they want taught to their own children using their own tax money?

What gives the leftists the idea that it's OK for them to dictate public school curriculum on others kids but that the parents have no say?

That is not a conservative position to take. It smacks more of socialism or communism; the state decides what's best for the unwashed and they have to take it or take the consequences.

236 posted on 01/21/2009 3:47:20 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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