If Galileo hadn't been restored to favour by the Church... how would you
feel about geocentrism being taught in science classes?
Is there any difference w.r.t. evolution/creation?
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SQUONKSTAIL@aol.com ha scritto:
> In a message dated 7/24/02 9:14:03 AM GMT Daylight Time,
> sketch2099@yahoo.com writes:
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>> I’m writing in hopes of getting back into the roots of
>> this thread. To me, Intelligent design is just plain
>> unconstitutional. Intelligent design may not be
>> promoting any one religion (which is an idea advocates
>> for the intelligent design theory proclaim), but it is
>> still promoting the idea of a higher power, which is
>> clearly in the realm of religion, and therefore is
>> promoting religion, it doesn’t matter if it’s
>> promoting any one of them over another. Anytime the
>> concept of “God” is introduced into any field of
>> scientific study, promotion of religion is present and
>> that is clearly not allowed b/c the separation of
>> church and state. Evolution is a purely scientific
>> theory and truly the best we have to date, so
>> naturally it should be taught in science classes. Of
>> course there are holes, but that’s only because we are
>> still learning (remember its just a theory! not a
>> fact!). Both the theory and its holes should be
>> taught together (of course which holes are real holes
>> is an entirely different matter altogether), but I’m
>> not really very comfortable with anyone but a doctor
>> in biology teaching about evolution. People in the
>> non-scientific community tend to have an incorrect
>> view of what evolution really is. One of the most
>> amusing comments I tend to here in my bible-belt town
>> is “Any idea that says we came from monkeys is just
>> plain ignorant.”
>>
>> Of course, I do not wish to shield anyone from any
>> religious view. Actually, I wish for everyone to
>> experience every single religious view. But science
>> classes are not the place. Maybe in an English class
>> where we learn about other myths, like those of the
>> antiquity, because many people believe these days
>> believe their ideas of higher powers and stories of
>> creation to be truth, but how is that any different
>> from the ancient Greeks who believed their myths to be
>> truth also.
>>
>> Science has no place for gods, if it did, it wouldn’t
>> be science.
>
> Hi there,
> So creationism undermines the constitutional foundation of the USA?
> I appreciate your argument and find such a move disturbing.
>
> All the best,
> Squonk.
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