[Coyoteman]

This case should also be a dead canary in the mine shaft for all Christians! The atheistic Secular Humanist are now flexing their government muscle and plan to make getting an education or a job very hard for anyone admitting to being a Christian.

Nice try. The issue is academic credit for non-academic subjects, and in fact anti-academic and anti-science subjects.

Do you also want to give credit for snake handling? That might fit into zoology.

How about dancing and shaking the rattles? That might fit into the music curriculum somewhere.

I'm not sure where magic would fit. Performing arts?

But speaking in tongues, now that has to fit into linguistics somehow!

[GourmetDan]

"Nice try. The issue is academic credit for non-academic subjects, and in fact anti-academic and anti-science subjects."

The issue is whether the philosophy of naturalism will prevail as secular belief. 'Anti-academic' and 'anti-science' are merely code words for those who do not hold to the philosophy of naturalism.

"Do you also want to give credit for snake handling? That might fit into zoology."

How about believing that animal carcasses spontaneously generate maggots or that garbage dumps spontaneously generate rats? Better to move the goalposts back into to the unobservable where biological systems, phyla, orders, families, etc just 'appeared' out of the mists of time.

It's not an argument of philosophy vs empiricism and Coyoteman know this. He chooses to misrepresent the argument because he wants his own personal philosophical choice to prevail.