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To: kattracks
"There's no problem with Dr. Dini saying you have to understand evolution and you have to be able to describe it in detail," said Kelly Shackelford, the group's chief counsel, "but you can't tell students that they have to hold the same personal belief that you do."

My guess is if asked, these special students wouldn't be so sure that the sun, stars and planets didn't revolve around the earth too!

2 posted on 02/03/2003 4:21:03 AM PST by TightSqueeze (From the Department of Homeland Security, sponsors of Liberty-Lite, Less Freedom! / Red Tape!)
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To: TightSqueeze
"My guess is if asked, these special students wouldn't be so sure that the sun, stars and planets didn't revolve around the earth too!"

That seems a rather juvenile comment, and seems to indicate you don't have any real basis for an opinion.

99 posted on 02/03/2003 9:13:09 AM PST by MEGoody
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To: TightSqueeze
This professor is making a false distinction. The course work (the presumed basis for any recommendation) was based on what IS (with apologies to Bill Clinton), not how it may have come to be. If someone believes that automobiles are delivered by fairies in the middle of the night, that makes them no less capable of understanding the working mechanics of one and being fully capable of doing first-rate repair work.
877 posted on 02/05/2003 5:09:10 PM PST by william clark
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