Posted on 11/01/2005 6:27:26 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
Maybe it would be a good idea for the warring parties to cool the rhetoric a bit. This issue does not portend the end of Western civilization as we know it. Frankly, with these naughty young minds cruising the internet, it is quite easy to be exposed to just about everything, and every point of view. Oh the horror.
Hey maybe turning public schools into Madrasses, will turn the secularists, and the secularist left in particular, into favoring school vouchers. Think about it.
It does not, however, follow that every point of view is equally valid merely by virtue of the fact that it exists. Nor does it follow that every point of view must necessarily be given the stamp of approval civilized society provides to those ideas thought worthy of curricular inclusion.
My subtle little point is that folks are getting their panties in a wad over a trivial issue. Is this issue the primary threat to the quality of public education, or the proper training of young minds? I think not. In fact, if young minds were properly trained, they would be well able to parse the merits of this tiresome and empty controversy, which is as much about a war over capturing semantical terms, as anything else.
I just visited the link. Who's the frikin commie?
Worst kept secret of the 20th century is that communism don't work.
Didn't he get the memo???
Sheesh. Some people never learn.
"Bourgeois Politics, Law"
"Crimes of Imperialism
CIA-Cocaine, Internet... "
Setting the Record Straight
Communist Rev
"Maoist Rev in China "
Why in the world would you post this trash here and why should anybody take ANYTHING this moonbat says, seriously?
From what I gather in this article, if any issue is supported by evil, right-wing zealot, Bible-thumping, Christians, it MUST BE STOPPED. If it is not stopped then the entire republic is in grave danger and our 230 year history as a nation will come to an end.
I'm saddened that if one is a Christian then there is no place for you or your views in the public square.
Do I believe in intelligent design? No. I am a near atheist. Do I believe there is any empirical evidence for it that is testable by the scientific method? No. Are there some elements of the evolutionary theory that will be so testable in my lifetime? No. Will we discover the origin of life in my lifetime, as it were, via the scientific method? No. So what?
A careful inspection of how our bodies and brains are constructed leads to a suspicion that we were designed by a committee.
For real? Maybe I will read this afterall. What strange bed-fellows Evolution has had coming to its support: Communists, the ACLU, the DU, the MSM, PFAW, Wiccans, Ted Kennedy ... the list goes on and on.
We seem to have a good deal of trouble properly teaching them to read, nevermind how to think in a properly critical manner. I understand your point, but as a practical matter, we can at least, for the time being, insure that the factual matter provided to them is as correct as we currently know it to be. Deferring resolution until the day they all have properly trained minds seems to me to be the sort of thing Voltaire was referring to when he noted that "le mieux est l'ennemi du bien".
The beauty of it all, is that you are exposed to the competing arguments, and if well educated, one can then make a reasoned judgment. I do that all the time about things I don't know about, or think I know about. What some hack teacher in high school said, or what some sticker on a text book said, is just a point of departure into inquiry.
And a rather large contingent here including myself to some degree. You don't have to be a Creationist to be a conservative. You don't have to be religious at all really.
My French is rusty, but I am sure the comment was elegant and devastating to whatever point I am trying to make, however ineptly. :)
Since fascism was an anti-Christian movement, a Christian fascist is as much an oxymoron as a Christian Muslim. I'll be interested to see if this usage migrates from the Stalinist Left to the MoveOn.org/Howard Dean Left, or whether the part of the Left that wants to win elections realizes that this kind of language will turn people off.
Charles Darwin disagreed. He said, "If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down."
Intelligent Design Theory can be tested by demonstrating that irreducible complexity exists in nature.
"The perfect is the enemy of the good." - Voltaire ;)
Something about cats not liking beans, I think.
If you can do that, you get the Nobel prize, and will be deemed the second coming of Sir Isaac Newton.
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