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To: sirchtruth
Ok, I'll go along with that as long as those scientific classroom teachers and materials fully inform students evolution is only a theory developed by some in the scientific community.

And I would go along with an anti-dogmatism statement or policy of this type so long as it is applied to scientific theories in general, instead of singling out for special qualification only those scientific theories that biblical literalists happen to object to.

Interestingly antievolutionists have often proposed statements or policies such as you describe, but they ALWAYS refuse to generalize them to all scientific theories. I've yet to find a antievolution activist who has shown the slightest concern with scientific dogmatism (supposed or actual) as a general principle. It's always invoked as a ploy in service of special pleading.

In fact it's pretty clear to me that antievolutionists generally prefer that scientific theories other than evolution are taught dogmatically, as this will make evolution seem less valid by contrast.

159 posted on 06/11/2007 3:45:06 PM PDT by Stultis (I don't worry about the war turning into "Vietnam" in Iraq; I worry about it doing so in Congress.)
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To: Stultis
In fact it's pretty clear to me that antievolutionists generally prefer that scientific theories other than evolution are taught dogmatically, as this will make evolution seem less valid by contrast.

All science must be taught with integrity and honestly, that's what I ask.

I am not against the teaching of evolution, I am against the teaching of evolution as fact, and not a belief or hypothesis. I'm am against the myriad of dishonest, deceiving scientific "discoveries" in the past century which are meant to coax one into believing a certain observation is scientific fact.

Piltdown Man!

165 posted on 06/11/2007 3:57:51 PM PDT by sirchtruth (No one has the RIGHT not to be offended...)
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