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To: Fester Chugabrew
As far as the name given for God, this tends to be the discipline of theologians, but they should not be prevented by law from excercising ther diciplines in public, academic, and scientific contexts.


Does your magnanimity extend this far? Is that what you would support for public schools? If so, I have dozens more, some a lot better...


Another Egyptian Creation Myth

At first there was only Nun, the primal ocean of chaos that contained the beginnings of everything to come. From these waters came Ra who, by himself, gave birth to Shu and Tefnut. Shu, the god of air, and Tefnut, the goddess of moisture gave birth to Geb and Nut, the earth god and the sky goddess. And so the physical universe was created. Men were created from Ra's tears. They proved to be ungrateful so Ra, and a council of gods, decided they should be destroyed. Hathor was dispatched to do the job. She was very efficient and slaughtered all but a remnant, when Ra relented and called her off. Thus was the present world created. Against Ra's orders, Geb and Nut married. Ra was incensed and ordered Shu to separate them, which he did. But Nut was already pregnant, although unable to give birth as Ra had decreed she could not give birth in any month of any year. Thoth, the god of learning, decided to help her and gambling with the moon for extra light, was able to add five extra days to the 360-day calendar. On those five days Nut gave birth to Osiris, Horus the Elder, Set, Isis, and Nephthys successively. Osiris became the symbol of good, while Set became the symbol of evil. And thus the two poles of morality were fixed once and for all.
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697 posted on 05/04/2006 9:14:27 PM PDT by Coyoteman (Creationists know Jack Chick about evolution.)
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To: Coyoteman

Your suggestion is but a classic red herring. Public school science classes need not launch into all these different cultural accounts of creation in order to operate under the general assumption of intelligent design. At the same time it is not the prerogative of legislatures to prohibit mention of any of your cherished creation stories in a public, academic, scientific context.


727 posted on 05/05/2006 5:36:58 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
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