Re: Evolution vs Bad Religion


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> jrsp8s@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> <jgrisham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> > You know, we can all pack up and go home if we're all willing to follow
>> > Khubla's suggestion and accept the Vatican's version of theistic
>> > evolution (God did it!) as the scientific standard for public school
>> > instruction in America.
>> >
>> > But, of course, that's not going to happen, because even if everybody
>> > in every community of science and religion were to put their stamp of
>> > approval on it, an atheist in a California suburb with no scientific
>> > standing at all will hire a lawyer and drag us all into court to sue
>> > our collective asses for exposing their cousin's adopted third world
>> > child to theism, thereby establishing (by some lawyer's twisted logic)
>> > an unconstitutional state sanctioned religion (of some undefined sort).
>> > Currently, that is the logic that sways us all to contribute our 2
>> > cents to this conversation.
>> >
>>
>> How about we all agree to accept evolution as a theory and a fact and
>> don't
>> comment about god either way? You know, kind of how a scientist would
>> aproach the issue...
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> We tried that for decades, but it proved to be too much of a temptation
> for the atheists, because they can shove their opinion down children's
> throats without debate. They developed a lesson plan called, "the
> Invisible Unicorn", which really wouldn't have been too bad if they
> weren't wasting an entire classroom period on it. Kids have a lot to
> learn in the science classroom and sitting on their hands for a class
> period, so they can "think about and absorb" the principles of atheism
> (pushing the conclusion that God is like an invisible unicorn) isn't
> science.

This is odd. This was an overt lesson plan in public schools? Who are
these atheist conspirators? Can you cite evidence that this "Invisible
Unicorn" curriculum was taught somewhere?
>
> Sure, fundementalists are a bunch of dumb reactionaries, who couldn't
> think up a better plan than putting stickers in textbooks... "Evolution
> is a theory". To which, the atheists hired their lawyers to get the
> stickers removed (I'm sure, just to piss off the fundementalists).

I think your mind has reversed its polarity on the cause and effect of this
issue.

>And
> back and forth and back and forth, we all go. Atheists see it as their
> right to teach atheism in the public education classroom and
> fundementalists are outraged that they can't preach their religions,
> too. None of which has the slightest thing to do with science or
> evolution.

Look, whether you like it or not, public school is not the place to espouse
religion or indoctrinate students into a particular religion...and that's
exactly what has been going on in these lawsuits. Religions can and are
discussed in public school, as long as there is not preferential treatment
of one religion over another. That's why there are private schools; for
people who wish to combine their studies with their religion . What is so
hard to understand here? Your atheist conspiracy simply does not exist.
How would you decide what religion should be taught in public schools?
(Remember, you will be teaching Muslims, Hindus, Christians, Jews, Atheists,
etc. all in one class)

JR
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> JTG 1/31/06 (later, same day)
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>> JR
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>> >
>> > JTG 1/31/06
>> >
>

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