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From: squires@csd2.UUCP (Charles S Squires Jr)
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Subject: Re: Creationsim in Christian Thought
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Date: Tue, 22-Oct-85 02:08:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 22 02:08:00 1985
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Creationism??  

It seems fairly obvious that this whole idea of "creationism" (more
specifically, "creation science") is a euphemism for a political
"strategy".  Consider this:

Well, it looks like religion just ain't gonna make it in the schools
any more.  This whole damned atheistic system is so 'humanistic' and
promotes nothing but that liberal, science stuff.  So, let's
call our religious belief in the Christian creation myth a SCIENTIFIC
theory, and push it into the schools that way so our kids can be
brought up as good Christians (i.e., Baptists).  They wouldn't dare
keep an alternate SCIENTIFIC theory out of the schools.

So, yes... we should beware since the current movement among the
religious fanatics is strikingly similar to the forces which
surpressed and destroyed so much knowledge and progress during the
pre-Reformation, pre-Renaissance era (i.e., the DARK AGES).  But more
specifically, we should face this situation head on and call it
what it really is... PROPAGANDA.