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To: metmom

>>That’s your excuse. Just because you think you have a better reason to have it your way than anyone else, doesn’t mean that it’s OK to use the force of law to force on the unwilling majority what the self-appointed elite choose.<<

No, it is the reason and since 99.9% of all of the scientific community agree, that is hardly a sliver. There, wasn’t that nice of me to address your appeal to authority?

>>And the polls show that people want creation and ID taught in addition to evolution, not instead of.<<

So if polls showed that people wanted astrology to be taught instead of astronomy that would mean we should? There, wasn’t that nice of me to address your argumentum ad populum?

>>We’ve been through this before. Demonstrate with any kind of statistics you can find that teaching creation and ID in addition to evolution will in any way hurt science education in this country.<<

This isn’t a “harm” case. This is a “teaching incorrect facts” case. I am sure if we taught astrology as science there would be no “harm” done. But that wouldn’t make it science and that wouldn’t make it right. There, wasn’t that nice of me to address your false dilemma?

(N.B. And thank God there are no such statistics since we have successfully kept instruction in the proper framework.)


149 posted on 11/19/2009 5:09:28 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: freedumb2003
No, it is the reason and since 99.9% of all of the scientific community agree, that is hardly a sliver.

So, do you think that it's OK for them to dictate through force of law what is to be taught in the public schools? Cause that sure is what's coming across that you're advocating.

Nice evading of the request and answers there.

IOW, you have nothing. So there's no reason in the world to not have creation and ID taught alongside evolution in public schools if that's what the parents wish.

150 posted on 11/19/2009 5:33:12 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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