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To: microgood
It is hard to imagine a physicist that would want to imprison people for doubting or questioning the theory of general relativity.

How about for mandating the teaching of N-ray theory?

What do you think the appropriate reaction of astronomers should be if the government decides that astrology is as good as astronomy? What if the Legislature in, say, California, declares that crystal therapy will be taught along side normal medicine in medical schools?

I'm not advocating punishing anyone for "doubting or questioning the theory "; I do think that governmant officials who commit fraud by misrepresenting the status of evolution in science need to be held accountable, and not just by the electorate.

109 posted on 12/14/2005 6:25:30 PM PST by Virginia-American
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To: Virginia-American
What do you think the appropriate reaction of astronomers should be if the government decides that astrology is as good as astronomy?

In conservative America the remedy is to win the debate in the public square. In liberal America the remedy is to entice the ACLU into taking the debate out of the public square and finding a plurality of judges to read emanations from penumbras.

112 posted on 12/14/2005 6:30:42 PM PST by jwalsh07
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