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From: daveh@tekcrl.UUCP (Dave Hatcher)
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Subject: Re: Clarke's Writings on Religion
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Date: Thu, 11-Sep-86 20:50:46 EDT
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>> I'm going to take something Charley Wingate wrote, and substitute
>> exactly two words.  I invite him to tell us all whether or not he
>> feels the same about this statement as the one he originally wrote. 
>> 
>> >By the same token, a lot of people, particularly children at various stages
>> >of life, simply aren't prepared to approach the bible with the proper sort
>> >of critical attitude.  
>> 
>> The substituted words, by the way, were "the bible" for "these books". [BERRY]

>Very good point, Scott.  If Charley were actually to apply his feelings
>universally regarding the "dangers" to small children's minds resulting from
>exposure to works such as those of Clarke, he would also have to include
>the Bible in his list of books children simply aren't prepared to have the
>proper critical attitude about.  


	In the Aug 29 issue of Science page 935 is an article titled
 Nobelists Unite Against "Creation Science". 
	It seems that Murray Gell-Mann, a Caltech physicist has managed to
 get 72 Nobel prizewinners to endorse a legal brief. The brief supports an 
 effort to overturn a Louisiana law that requires "creation science" to be  
 given equal time with evolution in the states public schools.
	The brief argues that "creation science" is religion dressed up
 as science and therefore should not be taught in the schools.
	At a press conference held to coincide with the filing, Stephen J.
 Gould of Harvard argued that "as a term, creation science is an oxymoron
 a self-contradictory  and meaningless phrase--a whitewash for a specific,
 particular, and minority religious view in America: Biblical literalism.
	Francisco Ayala of University of California added: "To claim that
 the statements of Genesis are scientific truths is to deny all the evidence. 
 To teach such statements in schools as if they were science would do untold
 harm".
 	

	Dave Hatcher