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[Gopher]

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[Ya-ta Boy]

I saw that news clip, too. Teaching 'Intelligent Design' in science class strikes me as a way to do an end run around the parents who don't send their kids to church every Sunday morning and Wednesday evening.

Bob the biology teacher at the high school I taught in said he never ever uttered the name Darwin in class--until the day every semester the kids came in from my class where we debated Darwinism. He said it saved him a big headache if he avoided the words and just taught the theory without drawing attention to it. He said being called a coward by me was preferable to spending his free time in conferences with irrate and ignorant parents. I could see the wisdom in that.

[Rteacher]

Hey, read my last post on the "Humans in N.A. 40,000 years ago" for the real scoop on religion and science... (OK, shameless plug - and stretching/ shredding the thread topic as usual...) YO GOTTA PROBLEM WID DHAT! (er...I better get some sleep...)

[Rteacher]

Hey, read my last post on the "Humans in N.A. 40,000 years ago" for the real scoop on religion and science... (OK, shameless plug - and stretching/ shredding the thread topic as usual...) YO GOTTA PROBLEM WID DHAT ??! (er...I better get some sleep...)

[Gopher]

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[mindmetoo]

I do think the supreme court back in the 80s, in a ruling (McLean v. Arkansas Board of Education) it had regarding giving creationism equal time in science class, indicated that what should be taught in science class is established science. Established science is in essence what scientists do: a real science has established journals, phd programs, etc. Creationism and now ID both lack this.

[keithinkorea]

Bush is an imbecile, supersitions and myths have no place in a science class. If parents want their kids to be taught that nonsense then they should send them to some weird church school or something and not expect tax payers to fund the promotion of idiotic ideas.

A waste of time for the students and a waste of taxpayers money.

[Ya-ta Boy]

[khyber]

my private christian school in canada (in alberta even) taught me all about darwin and, as far as i know, very few to no parents complained (course i was a kid so how was i to know for certain).
As a young xtian, i found it totally fascinating and i continue to do so. Do i give it creedence? You betcha. Do i give creation creedence? you betcha.

Does that have anything to do with it being taught in my high school? not one freakin' iota.
I think to keep evolution FROM kids is doing them a REAL disservice and to put creationism in a SCIENCE classroom is wrong.

That said, I think that there SHOULD be religious studies classes mandatory for every student (though not ONLY xtianity).

Back to the main point though, it seems so strange that such an old idea is getting such a hard ride of things in the US and not in other countries; even in other "judeo-xtian" countries.

[Gopher]

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[bucheon bum]

I studied the bible in my high school English class (a big portion of the OT and just a few passages from the NT). I found it worthwhile. Only time I've read the bible.

[Ya-ta Boy]

The timing of this speech is directly related to his sinking poll numbers. When your foreign policy, economic policy and personal integrity are all under question, drag out a culture war issue. It shores up the base.

[khyber]

[Gopher]

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