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"Scott Seidman" wrote in message
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That said, I agree that people should be "taught" about both,
as well as about religion.
Exactly. Children should learn about evolution in science class, and
about
intelligent design in whichever class they learn about Apollo
dragging the sun across the sky with his chariot.
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Scott
I'm not sure I agree with ya here Scott. I believe the courts said
that "intelligent design" belonged on the shelves of comic book
stores.
Op
I'm particularly sensitive to this issue. History of Science is a hobby
of mine, and I teach it whenever there's an opportunity.
The Scientific Revolution (in the sense of the nickname of the 1450's-
1550's, not the Kuhnian sense) happened because scientists managed to
shed the religious dogma that people like Aquinas managed to wrap around
the Ptolemaic Universe, with its crystalline celestial spheres moving
heavenly bodies in perfectly circular orbits around the earth. Even my
scientific hero, Tycho Brahe (who I named my parrot after, cause his beak
looks a little metallic), fell victim to this dogma, and supported a
geocentric solar system. Read Brahe's wikipedia entry, if so inclined--
he was a real hoot).
Inquisitors teach this kind of intelligent design crap and call it
science. The enlightened do not.
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Scott
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