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To: combjelly who wrote (275845)	2/21/2006 3:49:16 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) of 1576346

"I didn't realize creationism was that well established in OK. Are they teaching it in TX too? " Well, in the early 80's when equal time provisions between evolution and creationism were being weighed in many states, Oklahoma was debating that until someone pointed out that would require many schools to teach evolution... In Texas, many of the Christian schools have climbed on the ID bandwagon. Some of the public schools started teaching it because there is a religion program that is pushed at the schools and it includes a lot of material on ID. Having never lived in that part of the country.....is this simply business as usual, or is there a significant divergence developing between them and the rest of us. Last fall, we saw how PA went on this issue. I suspect that will be typical for most northern states? As I type this, I amazed we are having this conversation in the first decade of the 21st century which brings to mind a similar issue. Interesting development on the EGY Yahoo board this AM. Someone posted that there was more trouble in Nigeria. Its fairly common for people to post on the board geopolitical events that might effect the price of oil. However, this time several people complain........asking why was the article posted; what was its revelance to EGY. Their objections didn't make sense to me......so I went back and reread the article to see if there was something in the article I missed that might be objectionable to the more conservative members on the board. It turns out the article was discussing how Christians were mass killing the Muslims in Nigeria. They wouldn't admit it but I think that's why they were objecting. Apparently, several others on the board got what I got because we all almost simultaneously posted, saying we didn't object to the article and to keep them coming. This kind of duality or is it hypocrisy that exists in American life is very new to me. It takes a lot more energy to figure out where things are at. I don't like it.

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