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Thread #82326   Message #1508272
Posted By: DMcG
23-Jun-05 - 04:44 PM
Thread Name: BS: Open Letter to Kansas School Board
Subject: RE: BS: Open Letter to Kansas School Board
Well, since we seem to be moving together, I'm afraid its time to push us apart a little. It is quite true that science has not proven creation is impossible, but it has shown the requirement of a creator is not necessary, at least as far as evolution is concerned. (Yes, there are unexplained areas still, but there are unexplained areas of every significant topic in science and outside it; knowledge is like that) I do not support teaching ANYTHING in school that is supported by only a tiny percentage of the specialists in that subject. I am sure, for example, there are historians who can and do argue cogently that getting rid of slavery was a bad thing, or that America should never have split from Britain. Should these alternatives views be taught in schools, because "Getting rid of Slavery was a good idea" is only "only a theory"?

I also don't buy the idea that this is a scientific argument, rather than a religious one. For one thing, there far too much historical evidence of attempts to set the agenda based on religious views in the past. For another, scientific battles are fought out in journals and conferences, not schools.