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To: camerakid400
...there is no scientific basis for creationism to be taught at all in science class.

There is also no basis for evolution to be taught either - in fact origins are outside of the classical scientific method. Only operational science (i.e. observable - repeatable - verifiable) is truly science most everything else that calls itself science is secular religion looking for legitimacy and legal protection - not to mention government grants.

29 posted on 08/17/2007 1:12:08 PM PDT by DaveyB (Ignorance is part of the human condition - atheism makes it permanent!)
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To: DaveyB

Well evolution itself is pretty much at the level of gravity-it’s scientific understanding of its existance is universally accepted (Michael Behe is one of the only scientists who disagreed, but in his new book, he pretty much gave up.) The fact that we still have new parts of evolutionary process being discovered (just a couple days ago there was something new) does not discredit the basic ideas of evolution taught to children in science that have yet to be disproven for almost 100 years.

The origin of WHY evolution occurs and HOW WE came into existance can be debated in phylosophy class or religion class.

There is basis for teaching the process of evolution, there is no basis for teaching why evolution occurs in a science class. We still don’t know why gravity occurs (or have yet to find the “graviton”-the gravity particle). Gravity is taught in science class because we accept that it exists.

The communist liberals have tried to use evolution among other things as a way to take away religion out of public life, and that is certainly unacceptable.


38 posted on 08/17/2007 1:52:09 PM PDT by camerakid400
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To: DaveyB
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There is also no basis for evolution to be taught either - in fact origins are outside of the classical scientific method. Only operational science (i.e. observable - repeatable - verifiable) is truly science most everything else that calls itself science is secular religion looking for legitimacy and legal protection - not to mention government grants.

Sorry. You're never gonna sell that -- it's the truth, and you know that doesn't sell very well in the "educational" field.

63 posted on 08/18/2007 5:23:24 AM PDT by Turret Gunner A20 (Sorr)
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