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To: js1138

There are two popular whizbangs. One is God. One is happenstance. I don't see one as being any more scientific than the other.

Here's my opinion about how scientific education should operate. I'm not for taking a Bible into science class. I don't even particularly care if ID is taught as a specific discipline (Behe's ideas, for example). I'd be more than satisfied if evolution was taught as a theory, and if five minutes were spent at the beginning of the semester explaining that science says NOTHING one way or another about God's existence. Therefore, maybe the universe, its laws, its lifeforms couldn't exist without a deity that created them. Maybe it could.

If that was done, few people of faith would concern themselves with this issue. The internet, private schools, and homeschooling are breaking the evolutionist monopoly, one way or the other. But even my modest suggestion would bring down the wrath of the hardcore evolutionists, the ACLU, and the arrogant federal judiciary. We'd be told that to even mention the possibility of God having anything to do with life or the universe would be outrageous. We'd be told that even a single sentence treating evolution as anything other than the single most established fact in the history of the world would be a "constitutional violation".

And so the controversy continues.


335 posted on 04/18/2006 1:56:01 PM PDT by puroresu (Conservatism is an observation; Liberalism is an ideology)
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To: puroresu
All of science has the same problem, not just biology. There is no branch of science that doesn't conflict with someone's religion.

Somewhere in an introductory science class the students should be introduced to empirical methodology, and should be taught that science only deals with what can be studied by empirical methods.

Each religion and each church has its own unique perspective. I don't believe it is possible for a brief statement to reconcile the findings of science with everyone's religion, and I don't think it is up to the school to try.
337 posted on 04/18/2006 2:04:14 PM PDT by js1138 (~()):~)>)
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