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Originally Posted by Botnst
I think you pose a false dichotomy -- that a subject is either catering to an agenda or not catering to an agenda.
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You think creationism is not catering to an agenda?
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By the same token, ID is believed a reasonable explanation by millions of Americans. Is it reasonable to ignore it?
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Ignore it? It's impossible to ignore this crap given how many people believe it. My girlfriend is a 7th grade science teacher and has to deal with these morons constantly. What does it matter what people believe? I have colleagues who believe that GWB is behind 9/11, and that everybody has a personal angel looking after them. That a child that died when it was 3 is still there in "angel" form looking after it's 26 year old sister. This kind of drivvel is in no qualitative way different from the latest incarnation of the primitive ignorant ramblings of itinerent bronze age tribesmen which the superstitious amongst us are once again trying to stuff down peoples throats under the pretext that it's a "scientific" theory and therefore worthy of inclusion in schools.
It isn't and it isnt. No matter how many ignorami choose to believe it. So no. Once again, it has no place in an institution of public education. Except perhaps as an object of ridicule.
- Peter.
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