Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cbscc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbsck!cbscc!pmd From: pmd@cbscc.UUCP (Paul Dubuc) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Re: New Tactics by Creationists? Message-ID: <5904@cbscc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 11:09:37 EDT Article-I.D.: cbscc.5904 Posted: Mon Sep 16 11:09:37 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 17-Sep-85 06:06:46 EDT References: <673@ihu1m.UUCP> Reply-To: pmd@cbscc.UUCP (unix-Paul Dubuc,x7836,1L244,59472) Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories , Columbus Lines: 22 I don't think either tactic is especially new. These creationists have been playing both sides of the coin for years. I think it depends largely on what standard their opposition uses most for maintaining the inequity between the representation of creationist and evolutionist ideas in the public schools. If it is said that creationism must be banned because it is religious, then attempts are made to show that evolutionism is as much so. If it is said that only scientific opinion should be allowed in, then attempts are made to show that creationist ideas are really just as scientific as those of evolutionists. This is really the same argument cast in negative and postitive terms, respectively. They are the two sides of the same coin; the bottom line being that there is an unfounded inequity sustained in whichever way the standard is presented. Personally, I think the tacitic of trying to get evolutionism banned from the schools is very wrongheaded, just as it is wrong to ban creationist ideas. Creationists should not be using the same tactics by which they say they have been wronged. -- Paul Dubuc cbscc!pmd Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com