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To: elbucko

"Well, I guess you told me, but wasn't enough to change my mind."

No, you can't argue somebody out of an emotional position using rational arguments.

"You still have not resolved the issue of venue."

On the contrary, it is you who needs to explain the desperate need for a hermetic seal on the science classroom, to explain what great harm would be done by allowing 30 to 45 seconds a semester for a disclaimer to the effect that, "Some people think God is behind it all."


514 posted on 11/16/2005 7:04:10 AM PST by dsc
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To: dsc
On the contrary, it is you who needs to explain the desperate need for a hermetic seal on the science classroom, to explain what great harm would be done by allowing 30 to 45 seconds [??] a semester for a disclaimer to the effect that, "Some people think God is behind it all."

All you want is 30 to 45 seconds, huh? Yeah right!

I credit the majority of American children have a basic knowledge of the creation story in Genesis by the time that they are ready for biology. They should have learned it from their parents or in church by the time they are eight years old. You sell America's children short.

However, in rebuttal, would you then favor 30 to 45 seconds of an Evo announcing in each church, temple and mosque that "Some people think that man evolved, biologically, from other primates." I think not. Reciprocation is not an option with dogma. Venue and not subject IS the issue and not ID vs Evo.

515 posted on 11/16/2005 8:24:03 AM PST by elbucko
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To: dsc
On the contrary, it is you who needs to explain the desperate need for a hermetic seal on the science classroom, to explain what great harm would be done by allowing 30 to 45 seconds a semester for a disclaimer to the effect that, "Some people think God is behind it all."

This isn't what's being proposed. ID'ers want to interrupt class and tell students that science can't do anything right and then send them off to read a book full of nonsense.

Very little science is taught in public schools as it is. Undermining the little instruction that's left could put off impressionable kids form studying science at all.

If science were actually taught well in school we wouldn't even be having this discussion.

516 posted on 11/16/2005 8:31:40 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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