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To: metmom

I’d be willing to bet that them little creationist kids probably couldn’t get too far doing a scientific analysis of any situation by solving every problem by saying “God did it”

If you want creationism, teach it in your church, its a belief. Don’t teach it to kids in a public school, its that simple. Keep your dogma in your church, it has no place in school.


290 posted on 08/18/2008 9:27:25 PM PDT by Redcoat1982 (A fast shutter speed of 1/2000 sec ensured that the bounding basset hound was frozen in the frame)
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To: Redcoat1982; metmom; wintertime

‘Darwin did it’ doesn’t work either, but its in the schools.


293 posted on 08/18/2008 9:30:51 PM PDT by valkyry1
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To: Redcoat1982; metmom
If you want creationism, teach it in your church, its a belief. Don’t teach it to kids in a public school, its that simple. Keep your dogma in your church, it has no place in school.

It is the Darwinists in this fight who are the bullies here. They are the people who are defending government schools as a means to impose an atheistic worldview on other people's children.

If Darwinists aren't bullies for defending compulsory (that means armed police force) government schools, please explains to me how they are not?

The solution here, Redcoat, is to begin the process of privatizing government police threat schools.

If you want your kids sent to a school that scrubs God from the curriculum, fine. Do that! But...please don't force your atheism on other people's children. Oh!...And the Supreme Court has ruled that atheism is a religion.

While there are some Creationists and IDers who attempt to get their worldview into government textbooks, generally, most merely would like their school taxes back. They would like to use their own money they have paid in taxes for private schools. Many Creationists and IDers would like to use their school tax money as a donation to a private voucher foundations or to help support another child's education. What is so unreasonable about this?

its that simple. Keep your dogma in your church,

Although I have explained this many times, Darwinists are like little kids with fingers in their ears. There are on 2 possible choices a school can make! Neither is religiously neutral!!!!! 1) It is **NOT** religiously neutral to have government schools that are scrubbed free of God. *It teaches children that their religion and traditions are unimportant in evaluating the natural world and in evaluating the moral conflicts found in literature and the social sciences. *It teaches children that their religious values are peripheral and not central to their lives. *It teachers children that their religion must be hidden like a bathroom activity. *It teaches them that humans are a materialistic accident and that has enormous religiously non-neutral religious and political consequences.

At home parents are teaching one thing, and in their police threat government schools the values of the parents are **ignored** and sometimes even sneered at. Such an environment teachers child to have contempt for their parents.

I’d be willing to bet that them little creationist kids probably couldn’t get too far doing a scientific analysis of any situation by solving every problem by saying “God did it”

I'd be willing to bet that little creationist's kids are doing just fine in the sciences. Has any study been done to see how well children from fundamentalist Christian schools are doing in college generally and in the sciences specifically? Do we really know?

The truth is that evolution is really important only to a tiny handful of people in this minuscule niche of science. Other scientists over the vast array of science are **never** concerned in their daily work with the origin of man and the differentiation of species. This even includes **biologists**! The vast bulk of biology is chemistry and cellular based research.

In my field, we spent *ONE* lecture on the topic, and macro-evolution was **never** discussed even once on the graduate school level. My husband who has a Ph.D. in biochemistry, which is the chemistry of living organisms ( primarily human) reports the same.

Finally, before you dismiss me with the insult of "crevo", I "believe" in evolution. It seems to me to be the most rational explanation for the process of life on the earth...BUT...if my children attended school, I would want that school to reinforce that our natural world reflects the glory of a **rational** God. Our religion specifically teaches that not only *can* we learn about the workings of a rational God, it is our **duty** and **obligation** to learn as much as we are capable!

Teaching evolution without reference to a rational God is **NOT**NOT***NOT** religiously neutral. And...This is what Darwinists want to do with police threat atheistic government schools.

It is the Darwinist defenders of government schools who are the bullies!

324 posted on 08/19/2008 5:08:41 AM PDT by wintertime (Good ideas win! Why? Because people are NOT stupid)
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