Hi Squonk & Scott,
>The University is the main university in Ohio.
I guess that would be Ohio State?
>If you have not heard of these events i wonder how you feel about the
>possibility that the US is becoming divided along many deep moral fault
>lines?
I did a quick internet search and found mostly information about a bill
for teaching younger kids.
The most current was this.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/4/1/200137.shtml
There was one interesting point that I agree with:
“I've got kids ready to testify they were taught that evolution is a
fact,” said sponsoring Rep. Ron Hood, R-Canfield. “The only thing I ask is if
you teach evolution, teach it as a theory.”
Mr. Hood's bill (HB 679) is only a paragraph long but would require
teachers to use evidence both “supporting or consistent” with the theory of
evolution, as well as evidence “not supporting or inconsistent.”
I think this is reasonable as long as evidence is
really evidence. I would have a problem if creationists
pulled out Bible quotes as evidence.
I also wanted to comment on Scott's post about the reverse being
true.
"In fact, if there is any fanaticism,
it is from the opposing view!"
A current hot debate is about "God" being mentioned in the
pledge of allegiance.
There is a division in the country about this I think.
I think a lot of people would agree with Scott that separation
of church and state is being taken to a fanatical degree.
Others believe this separation is necessary for religous tolerance.
I am really glad that you brought the claim that this is fanaticism.
I have been thinking about it a lot lately.
My first reaction to was that the judge was right even though
it doesn't seem like a big deal if the person who doesn't want
to say that line just be silent during it.
In comparing ourselves to the Middle East we pride ourselves
on our religous tolerance but at the same time there is this
subtle undertone of "if you are not judeo-christian you are
unpatriotic."
I have been wondering whether we need to be fanatical about
separation of church and state to have religous tolerance.
On the other hand I feel that MoQ teaches that the separation
of religion and science is an illusion.
The resistance of MoQ would be partly due to the separation
of church and state.
Double edge sword indeed!
Erin
MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org
Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/
MD Queries - horse@darkstar.uk.net
To unsubscribe from moq_discuss follow the instructions at:
http://www.moq.org/md/subscribe.html
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Sat Aug 17 2002 - 16:02:24 BST