--- enoonan <enoonan@kent.edu> wrote: > 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.
>
Opium adicts ... the lot of 'em! Hehe.
André
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