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To: biblewonk
But, my point at that time is that the God who said all of those things would be quite a trickster to say them if they were lies.

Again, you have no proof the Almighty uttered those things. You simply have a book claiming such. Greek mythology has the Gods making many comments, but you don't see anyone going around claiming that Zeus must exist because we have documents citing those utterances. Don't get me wrong, I'm a church-going Catholic and I understand that some things must be taken on faith; however one must be rational when determining what may or may not be taught in public schools, and a faith-based curriculum is not necessarily rational.

306 posted on 02/22/2002 7:02:14 AM PST by Junior
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To: Junior
Don't get me wrong, I'm a church-going Catholic and I understand that some things must be taken on faith; however one must be rational when determining what may or may not be taught in public schools, and a faith-based curriculum is not necessarily rational.

My problem continues to be that evolution is a religion yet it is not treated as such. If I say I believe that God made the universe that is universally held as religion. Why? Not becasue I can't prove it but because I dared to invoke the name God.

If I say the universe came from a big bang then that is called science even though I can't prove it. If I say that the universe was made by Aliens then that will probably be called science too. I could go on to describe the aliens and my proof in the pictures in the magazines and ascribe all the attributes to them I want and it is still science. None of these theories is more provable than the other yet only only one is called religion and therefore is not allowed to be spoken among decent secular americans.

315 posted on 02/22/2002 7:18:17 AM PST by biblewonk
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