Steven Call I am happy that you and I can finally agree on something, 100%:
I fully support abolishing public schools and
letting parents pick the private school that their
children attend. Private institutions can do the job of setting
standards, the Catholic, Baptist, etc, churches, Harvard,
UCLA, Cato Institute would all be possible
standard makers.
Cheers
TA
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Message #763 from Steven Call at Sep 17 1999 6:16PM
Tunica,
Your continuing portrayal of evolution and theories explaining it as "doctrine" and those who accept the conclusions derived by applying the Scientific
Method to the material evidence as "disciples of Sagan" (btw Sagan was an astronomer not a biologist) or members of "The Church of Darwin" is a blatant
attempt to project a false face on the position you are attacking so that you can attack that false portrayal. You are putting up a strawman and I for one
am unimpressed when you knock it down.
Science is NOT a religion. Every theory, every fact is always open for testing. Teaching children about astronomy or geology or chemistry or EVOLUTION
in the context of the Scientific Method is as valid and as important as math and reading and history. Our technological economy is based in the Scientific
Method. To let a child out into the world without a basic understanding of it is educational malpractice. To excise a big chunk of the (always tentative)
conclusions derived from applying said Method to biology because it doesn't fit someone's religious creation doctrine is also educational malpractice.
I fully support abolishing public schools and letting parents pick the private school that their
children attend. Private institutions can do the job of setting
standards, the Catholic, Baptist, etc, churches, Harvard, UCLA, Cato Institute would all be possible
standard makers. . I also support an individual's
right to go to an herbalist instead of an MD
when they get a sharp lasting pain in their
lower right abdomen but I wouldn't recommend it.
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