Isn't this the same mentality which convicted Galileo to life imprisonment for arguing that Coppernicus was right and that the Earth and planets DID revolve around the Sun? Ironicly enough, this time it's the secular authorities repressing alternitive views becasue they may be tained with a religious componant, rather than the other way around as with Galileo.
"Isn't this the same mentality which convicted Galileo to life imprisonment for arguing that Coppernicus was right and that the Earth and planets DID revolve around the Sun? Ironicly enough, this time it's the secular authorities repressing alternitive views becasue they may be tained with a religious componant, rather than the other way around as with Galileo."
That's really not true - there is nothing in theory of evolution that precludes God. What science is saying is "only teach things in science class for which there is evidence."
If tomorrow I were to find proof of God that would stand up to scientific scrutiny I am positive I could get it examined by scientists and with enough proof get it added to the curriculum.
I was thinking about this earlier today. It is not a matter of religionists versus scientists - it is a matter of "only what I can now understand according to the tools currently availabe" versus "there are other possibilities".
Those who opposed Galileo did so because they were sure of their rational "scientific" perception of the universe. They are the ancestors who have "given rise to" the paranoid evolutionists of our day.