more on book burnings are next...

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "K.E." <guavaberry () earthlink net>
Date: November 12, 2004 9:19:24 PM EST
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] more on book burnings are next...

Hiawatha,

I agree with Dave, Tom Fairlie and Lauren Weinstein

> > How is it book burning to mandate that more information be provided,
> > rather than less?  Seems like the very opposite of book burning to 
> > me...

Religious schools may teach whatever they like, but
public schools are not in the business of teaching religion.
I offer help to teachers who find themselves stuck with this problem.

Teaching Evolution vs. Intelligent Design Theory
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/newteacherevolution.html

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away ~ 
Philip K. Dick

Quotes From "Salvation for Sale" by Gerard Thomas Straub

" The United States is in no sense founded upon the Christian doctrine."
~ George Washington

"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or 
no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." and
"I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature."
~ Thomas Jefferson

"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the 
Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the 
Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my 
own church."
~ Thomas Paine

"The Bible is not my book, and Christianity is not my religion. I could 
never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian 
dogma."
~ Abraham Lincoln

"Those who favor intelligent design want to offer it as an alternative 
to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, critics want to keep the idea 
out of biology textbooks. They say the theory is nothing more than a 
dressed-up version of creation science, which the U.S. Supreme Court 
has prohibited from public schools as a violation of the separation of 
church and state.

The alternative to evolution theory is not creationism or intelligent 
design. But if one is to be objective one would point out that 
non-proven theories fall into the category of "theoretical" eg 
"theoretical physics"; "theoretical biology" etc. Not all disciplines 
have a formally separate "theoretical" branch. If the theoretical 
branch included philosophy, then we could point out that in philosophy, 
religious philosophy is compared with other ideas and concepts. 
Descartes' ideas are discussed in philosophy without any fear of 
separation of church and state. Thus for religious ideas to be 
discussed in biology, a separate branch of biology, being "theoretical 
biology" or "biological philosophy", must be considered where all 
unproven or contentious ideas can be evaluated together. As 
"intelligent design" is a religious philosophy, it does not belong in 
biology classes."

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there is a lot more.


best,
karen ellis

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