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To: Fester Chugabrew

OK, I went back and had a look at some of your references. I don't see what you're saying. For example, #29 said that creationist arguments will have no effect whatever, since science will simply ignore them.

I do agree with you about some creationists extending their arguments to project doom upon those who do not believe in their particular deistic interpretation. I ignore such silliness, generally, or poke fun at it.

I will agree that many who see the Creationism/ID trend as a threat to science teaching say that frequently. I tend to agree with them.

Frankly, in our primary and secondary schools, very little time is spent on the origins of the universe and on evolution. There's simply not time, and the children are not equipped to really understand it. Instead, more practical science is taught, through reading, experiments, demonstrations, and the like. The goal, really, is only to engender an interest in the sciences and to teach some rudimentary things that will be useful to non-science students.

It is not until the university that any real information is imparted, and that only to those who are engaged in majors involving science. The general education science classes are mere extensions of the rudimentary stuff from the lower grades.

Kids do misunderstand what they are taught, it's true, but it would be even worse if a bunch of unscientific concepts were taught alongside scientific ones.

It's just not that big a deal. That so many here reject evolutionary theory is a good indication that nobody's being indoctrinated in it. For most folks, it's completely irrelevant to their lives.

Seems to me we have many more important things to worry about than this silliness.


281 posted on 06/21/2006 12:55:28 PM PDT by MineralMan (non-evangelical atheist)
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To: MineralMan
So you cannot see how creationism in that post (29) is considered to be the antithesis of science, observation, etc? To my understanding that means the growth of creationism, in this person's view, spells the "doom" of science.

Whatever. I poke fun at that kind of hyperventilation just like you poke fun at words denoting the judgments and activities of God.
294 posted on 06/21/2006 1:05:50 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
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