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To: Sweetjustusnow

The Darwinists have had a monopoly on American education every since Clarence Darrow tried to defend the right of a farming community to have their kids taught the Bible in school.

All we are talking about now is to suggest to kids that maybe there just might be scientific, statistical reasons for believing that the General Theory of evolution is simply not in accordance with the facts.

Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. I have always thought that there were insuperable difficulties in explaining the nature of things by a purely Darwinian account. But that isn't the issue. The issue is whether science will be laid down by judicial fiat rather than experiment and rational argument. At present, it is laid down by judicial fiat, as confirmed by that recent judgment.

NO ARGUMENTS ALLOWED. It's all Darwin, all the time, and you'd better like it, because the judges won't have it any other way. It's not a monopoly as long as no one is making any money off of it.

Oops, what's that you say? People ARE making money off of this monopoly? Salaries, research grants, teachers unions, cushy jobs that might be at risk if Darwin doesn't maintain his monopoly, funds flowing in to the ACLU to defend their turf?

Oh, well, so it goes. We can't allow any discussion, because ONLY DARWIN IS SCIENTIFIC. NO OTHERS NEED APPLY.


22 posted on 12/22/2005 9:12:18 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Cicero
The Darwinists have had a monopoly on American education every since...

Science has had a monopoly on American science education every since... and rightly so.

It is a lot like Religion having a monopoly in religion classes or writing having a monopoly in writing class.

Further, Darwin is ancient history. There are many components to science that goes beyond darwin's incomplete and partially incorrect theories.

30 posted on 12/22/2005 9:16:41 AM PST by staytrue (MOONBAT conservatives are those who would rather lose to a liberal than support a moderate)
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