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From: Road Walker	8/3/2005 7:20:23 AM
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Dear Old Golden Rule Days in Texas As President Bush arrives home for vacation, he may want to sample a school struggle about science versus scripture that's brewing in West Texas. It's the latest front in the campaign by cultural conservatives to wedge their own brand of religion into the public school curriculum. The Odessa school board's approach, which involves offering students a Bible study course as an elective, is actually an excellent demonstration of the trouble public schools can get into when they attempt to force any religion's teachings into the curriculum. It's a timely lesson because Mr. Bush, before he headed for Texas, voiced support for the idea that schools should teach an alternate theory of evolution known as "intelligent design" alongside the scientific version, which has been subjected to rigorous examination and testing over generations. "I think that part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought," he declared. Mr. Bush can find a lively clash of ideas already under way about that Bible course. A biblical studies professor at Southern Methodist University has found it riddled with such outlandish notions as a claim that NASA scientists have accumulated evidence of two days missing in time, thereby confirming biblical text about the sun standing still. The doctrine of separation of church and state, which has guided Americans from the time of the founding fathers, is based on an understanding that this is exactly the kind of hornets' nest that arises when sincere believers decide that children should be exposed to their own personal visions of how God works on earth. Odessa officials were prodded into creating the course by a local petition drive, and they are now stuck in the kind of dogmatic thicket that children should be spared at school. Faith is a deeply personal matter that defies scientific examination, and it is properly taught at home and at places of worship. We hope Texans spell this out for their favorite son before the vacation's end.

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