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To: Fester Chugabrew
One can only hope public educational institutions do not base their cirricula upon what you are personally aware, or unaware, of. It stands as an observable fact that evolutionists wield power over public school cirricla in manner like that of the Roman Cardinals in Galileo's day. It is more than annoying to see free inquiry squelched in the name of the limited "awareness" of this or that group of people.

That is just preposterous. Scientists "yield" power over the cirriculum of science classes by virtue of the fact that science classes teach children what scientists think. There is no shortage of opportunities to teach what everyone else thinks in other courses that don't explicitly claim to be about what scientists think. As I believe I've pointed out before--scientists do not routinely threaten their rhetorical opponents with death by fire, which differs distinctly from "the Roman Cardinals in Galileo's day".

1,349 posted on 05/27/2005 3:39:18 PM PDT by donh
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To: donh
. . . science classes teach children what scientists think.

In public schools this applies only to the degree that "what scientists think" is confined, restrained, limited, to their biases. IOW, it applies unless certain scientists suggest Darwinian theory has some explaining to do.

Galileo was redressed because he suggested science has a role in determining how the Scriputures should be interpreted. Today science is being redressed because it suggests biblical propositions have little or no basis in reality. A well-rounded educational system will allow the teaching and exposition of more than one point of view. That point seems to be lost on dogmatic evolutionists.

BTW, my reading of history has not revealed that Galileo was threatened with "death by fire."

1,353 posted on 05/27/2005 4:14:00 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
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