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To: RonF
What's an "evol"?

Someone who is absolutely dogmatic that evolution is the only idea worth considering.

How does what has happened here support the proposition that kids are to be brainwashed, not educated?

By forbidding the mere mention of the fact that there are competing theories. Heavens, we don't want the little darlings not to just swallow what they are being told.

100 posted on 01/05/2006 9:00:40 AM PST by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: MEGoody
By forbidding the mere mention of the fact that there are competing theories.

Well, I'm all for teaching competing theories in a science class. But ID is not a competing theory, it's a competing philosophy (theory having a specific technical meaning in science). On that basis, it should be taught in a philosophy class, not a science class, and neither this court decision nor any other on the topic have ever forbidden that.

Heavens, we don't want the little darlings not to just swallow what they are being told.

I'm all for teaching kids how to think. But to tell them that philosophy is science is lying to them, and I don't think that's what the schools are for.

101 posted on 01/05/2006 9:16:59 AM PST by RonF
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