To: Stultis
You're overwhelmed with paranoia. I assure that if "aboriginal dreamtime" were construed as suggesting a chronology and sequence of earth history that contradicted the meticulously accumulated knowledge of professional geology, and if some group insisted that "dreamtime" science be included in textbooks and curricula as an "alternative" to conventional geology, the reaction would be EXACTLY the same.What? You'd force your parocial, Western, European worldview on INDIGENOUS PIPPLES whose view is just as valid and receives the approbation of otherwise atheist Marxists everywhere? I thought one atheistic criticism of chr*stianity was that it altered and adulterated the native religious beliefs of "indigenous pipples" (which atheists, supposedly, would have preserved pristine and undefiled).
751 posted on
05/05/2006 11:20:33 AM PDT by
Zionist Conspirator
(Lo' `aleykha hamela'khah ligmor, 'aval lo' 'attah ben chorin lehibbatel mimennah.)
To: Zionist Conspirator
My wife does a wonderful Zha Zha-like "Hello little pipples!"
752 posted on
05/05/2006 11:27:08 AM PDT by
Liberal Classic
(No better friend, no worse enemy. Semper Fi.)
To: Zionist Conspirator
What? You'd force your parocial, Western, European worldview on INDIGENOUS PIPPLES whose view is just as valid and receives the approbation of otherwise atheist Marxists everywhere? Force? What force? They're flooding into Western (or local Westernized) Universities by the thousands upon thousands to eagerly absorb this worldview.
In any case I'm certainly no intellectual relativist. Differing world views, and subsidiary theories within them, should all be subject to competition and criticism, which will (or should) lead to some being abandoned or modified, and lead others to rightfully prevail in various domains.
761 posted on
05/05/2006 12:20:08 PM PDT 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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