Biology textbook hearings prompt science disputes [Texas]

Knight Ridder Newspapers ^ | 08 July 2003 | MATT FRAZIER

[JesseShurun]

ALERT! THE SYBIL SPEAKS!

[f.Christian]

Do you have a conscience ... nazis don't !


Syllables: con-science

Part of Speech noun
Pronunciation kan shEns
Definition 1. the human faculty that enables one to decide between right and wrong acts or behavior, esp. in regard to one's own conduct.

Related Words principle

Derived Forms conscienceless, adj.

[restornu]

what site did this take place on?

She should have hung in there

[ALS]

evos showing their best face placemarker

[RightWhale]

gulag

Some go Green, some go Harry Brown, some go Old Crusty. Destroy untruth, destroy unfreedom; destroy dark, restore light. Change from within. We're lucky to have this extra time, thanks to Reagan and the Olympic hockey team.

[JesseShurun]

I don't have it at the moment resty. Look for her last post in the search box and see if it's there

[RightWhale]

decide between right and wrong

Judgement presupposing knowledge: moral decision. Morals: Cicero's translation of Gr ethikos--right conduct in society.

[f.Christian]

Existentialism ... alanalda --- jerryspringer --- donahue ... tedtuner right ?

Secular atheism - devil worshippers !

[JesseShurun]

[ALS]

[CobaltBlue]

Studying up a bit on the history of the Baptists in America. According to this website, early American Baptists believed in the separation of church and state and opposed the idea that America was a Christian commonwealth.

>>Madison's understanding of the Baptist position regarding church and state is recorded in a letter he wrote to James Monroe in the midst of the fight against [Patrick] Henry's bill [Patrick Henry's general assessment bill to provide for "Teachers of the Christian Religion"]. Concerning support and opposition to the bill he wrote:

"The Episcopal clergy are generally for it. . . . The Presbyterians seem as ready to set up an establishment which would take them in as they were to pull one down which shut them out. The Baptists, however, standing firm by their avowed principle of the complete separation of church and state, declared it to be "repugnant to the spirit of the Gospel for the Legislature thus to proceed in matters of religion, that no human laws ought to be established for the purpose." (James Madison, Writings, II, 183-191.)<<
http://www.mainstreambaptists.org/mbn/Patriots.htm

My, my. Whatever became of the Baptists?

[restornu]

There is no record of her everything is removed!

[Stultis]

But you don't mind pushing your religion on our kids against the will of parents do you? It's called atheism.

No it's called "evolution". The view that evolution=atheism is a minority religious view. Most Christians in America believe that evolution is compatible with theism. Therefore the best idea, so long as we have public (government) schools, is to simply teach the current content of science (whatever it be) and either not comment on the relation of any scientific theory to broader theological or philosophical questions, such as theism, or to clearly distinguish such questions from science per se.

Your claim to be worried about offending parents is bogus and stems only from special pleading. You would have the curricula reordered on the assumption that particular scientific theories are in fact opposed to theism, and this would be offensive to many more parents.

[unspun]

Whatever became of the Baptists?

We kept reading the Bible and reflecting and got more educated.

[Stultis]

Got it Fidel?

Oh, Brother! [rolling eyes]

[ALS]

How many atheists aren't evolutionists?

[RightWhale]

alanalda --- jerryspringer --- donahue ... tedtuner

Dollar a day pikers. Ted Tune-him-out. America, land of 300 million truckdrivers and one philosopher [J. Kerouac.] The philosopher died. Over here! No! Over here! 1000 points of light ===> 1000 blazing suns.

[JesseShurun]

Awarded to goodseedhomeschoolmama posthumerously for fighting the good fight and telling it like it is

[ALS]

Back to baptist bashing again?

[ALS]