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From: doug@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Doug Hendricks)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Creationism in our schools and the Anti-Dogma statement
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Date: 6 Jan 89 19:38:37 GMT
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mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes:

[statement of anti-dogmatism deleted]

>[Whew!  That was a lot of typing.  If you support this statement, read it again
>and imagine you're a parent of school-age children in Germany in 1933.]

What is Mark's point? I don't understand why Mark is concerned about the
wording of the anti-dogmatism statement, or how a parent of school-age
children in Germany in 1933 would be offended, or if they were, why I should
care.

Maybe I have missed the point, but it seems to me that the Germans of the 
30's could have benefitted from an anti-dogmatism statement in their schools.
Of course, the Nazis could claim (and did) that their views were scientifically
supported, but I doubt an anti-dogmatism statement would have hurt.

Ethics is not taught as science anyway; ethics is ethics.
The statement is directed at science education.

Mark, I appriciate your typing the statement so that we could read it.
Could you now be more clear as to what you hold against it?

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