Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxd!rlr From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion Subject: Re: "Secular Humanism" banned in the US Schools. Message-ID: <1709@pyuxd.UUCP> Date: Sun, 15-Sep-85 22:31:07 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxd.1709 Posted: Sun Sep 15 22:31:07 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 17-Sep-85 04:24:25 EDT References: <11384@rochester.UUCP>, <615@hou2g.UUCP> <5867@cbscc.UUCP> <703@utastro.UUCP> <674@ihu1m.UUCP> Organization: Whatever we're calling ourselves this week Lines: 18 Xref: watmath net.politics:11006 net.religion:7645 > Biology is moving more and more today towards molecular biology. > Interpre tation of biology on the molecular level draws heavily on > evolutionary ideas. Trying to decouple evolution from molecular > biology will undoubtly make teaching this important subject meaningless. > (See for example: Molecular Biology of the Cell, by B. Alberts > et. al., 1983, Garland Publishing, Inc. ). > I do agree with Bill that creationists should be excused from > classes that teach evolution. [HOSHEN] I would agree if we were talking about adults. If creationist adults in school chose not to learn about evolution, and thus lose out on a significant part of education because of their religious beliefs, that is their business. But it is not adults who go to school. It is their children. To claim that a parent has the right to declare that "this subject should not be taught to my child" is horrific. -- "Meanwhile, I was still thinking..." Rich Rosen ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com