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To: MRMEAN
The only way for one side to have its views reflected in the official curriculum is at the expense of the other side.

Totally incorrect. The correced version is as follows:

The only outcome evolutionists will accept is to have its views reflected in the official curriculum at the expense of the other side.>

They absolutely DO NOT want to allow ANYTHING other than evolution to be taught in schools.

5 posted on 12/06/2005 11:59:43 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
The only outcome evolutionists will accept is to have its views reflected in the official curriculum at the expense of the other side.

There are too many PhDs and careers riding on evolution's monopoly. From the perspective of the evolutionists, this has less to do with "science," and is really more of a turf battle.

11 posted on 12/06/2005 12:03:16 PM PST by My2Cents (Dead people voting is the closest the Democrats come to believing in eternal life.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
They absolutely DO NOT want to allow ANYTHING other than evolution to be taught in schools.

No, they just want to limit science classes to actual science. They're funny that way.

13 posted on 12/06/2005 12:03:58 PM PST by highball ("I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
They absolutely DO NOT want to allow ANYTHING other than evolution to be taught in schools.

Incorrect. We scientists want only science taught in science classrooms, of which evolution is one branch of science. ID can be taught, but it it's proper context - philosophy or comparative religion.

17 posted on 12/06/2005 12:05:30 PM PST by doc30 (Democrats are to morals what and Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
They absolutely DO NOT want to allow ANYTHING other than evolution to be taught in schools.

Not so. We only insist that theories, laws and principles must first EARN standing in the marketplace of scientific ideas (i.e. prove sufficiently useful that they are taken up by scientists in the production of original scientific research, which status can be objectively confirmed in the professional literature) before they DESERVE a place in science curricula.

IOW it's an entirely normal CONSERVATIVE insistence on high and hard-nosed academic standards.

If ID (or any other view) genuinely succeeds as science, and thus earns a place in the curricula on merit, then we have no problem with that. You're just whining because you demand it's inclusion on the basis of intellectual affirmative action.

38 posted on 12/06/2005 12:18:33 PM PST by Stultis (I don't worry about the war turning into "Vietnam" in Iraq; I worry about it doing so in Congress.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
"They absolutely DO NOT want to allow ANYTHING other than evolution to be taught in schools Science Class.

There fixed it. Teach ID in philosophy if you want. Or History

Ancient History

134 posted on 12/06/2005 5:09:50 PM PST by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
The only outcome evolutionists will accept is to have its views reflected in the official curriculum at the expense of the other side.

Totally incorrect!! And, not even intelligent.

This proposal offers a solution we both can accept. You teach your children superstition such as ID or creationism (and call it anything you like) and I will teach my children science.

My children will go to MIT, Columbia, and Stanford. (OK, one already went to Columbia and one already went to Stanford).

And your children will be working as clerks in a convenience store because that is what they will be qualified for.

Works for both of us. Everybody's happy. And indeed, we need convenience store clerks when my kids need to get a late night snack.

136 posted on 12/06/2005 6:14:54 PM PST by 2ndreconmarine (Horse feces (929 citations) vs ID (0 citations) and horse feces wins!!!!!)
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