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Subject: Re: creation in public shools
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Date: Sat, 19-May-84 03:26:47 EDT
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>   If we are to be forced by legislation to teach what is essentially a
> matter of religious faith in our public schools, why must it be confined to
> the christian version of creation? Creationists speak of fairness in
> their arguments for teaching their views of the origin of the world as
> we know it.  If fairness is the issue, then along with teaching the
> theory of evolution and the christian myth of creation in our biology
> classes, we should also tell our children the Hopi version of the
> emergence, the Buddist and Hindu stories, the Australian Aborigine's
> stories of what happened during the Dream Time, and the thousands of other
> tales various peoples have developed to explain their place in the cosmos.

Again, we are NOT talking about the "christian version of creation."
This is NOT a religious discussion, but whether a certain model
SUPPORTED ONLY BY SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCES should be presented. If you have
a model ( => useful as a model) supported only by SCIENTIFIC evidence,
feel free to present it. A book which may be scientifically accurate
does not qualify as scientific evidence.

>   The point of all these ramblings is that if the creationists see fit
> to teach a faith that I don't agree with to my child, then they damn well
> better be willing to teach my views on the subject to their children.

For the converse side, read the first few pages of Senator Keith's book
"Scopes II: The Great Debate."
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