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To: Kevmo
The Science Education Act, which Democratic Sen. Ben Nevers originally proposed under the title Academic Freedom Act, signals teachers and districts that the state will back them should they choose to undertake a more thorough handling of controversial topics.

You realize that Occam's razor cuts both ways, don't you?

Intelligent design is going to be butchered like never before under this law. And just you watch! Some folks will squeal about religious persecution when it's done!

6 posted on 07/11/2008 11:33:50 AM PDT by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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To: Coyoteman

Intelligent design is going to be butchered like never before under this law.
***I think ID can handle the pressure. It will be better off as a result of this criticism, much like the textual criticisms aimed at the bible in the 19th century. After that little exercise, the new testament documents were stronger in their historicity than any other contemporary set of documents. The same will happen with ID.


11 posted on 07/11/2008 12:06:34 PM PDT by Kevmo (A person's a person, no matter how small. ~Horton Hears a Who)
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