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From: bch@mcnc.UUCP (Byron C. Howes)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion
Subject: Re: "Secular Humanism" banned in the US Schools.
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Date: Tue, 15-Oct-85 00:34:24 EDT
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In article <12288@rochester.UUCP> ray@rochester.UUCP (Ray Frank) writes:
>Black holes up there or down there in outer space cannot absolutely be proven.
>But no one denies the right to teach about the possibilities of the existence
>of black holes.  It is also not clear that the existence of black holes can
>ever be proven.  What we do see is the effect of not the direct observance
>of what might be black holes.  To draw parallels, what we observe in nature
>is not necessarily God, but the effect God has had on nature, namely, creation-
>ism.
>
>I rest my case.
>
>p.s.  Don't shoot this example down, there are a million more where this one
>came from.  Science churns them out in unlimited quantities.

I don't think the analogy is valid.  True, the evidence for black holes is
arguable and proof (in the tangible sense) probably impossible.  A good
teacher could instructively encourage debate on the existance vs. nonexistance
of black holes.

I ask, rhetorically of course, what would happen if that same instructor
encouraged debate on the existance vs the nonexistance of G-d?  
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						Byron C. Howes
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