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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Lane3 who wrote (82622)9/7/2008 4:39:17 PM
From: Cogito  Read Replies (1) of 541652
 
>>I do agree that having Palin as President would not mean that there would be a much higher probability of Creationism being taught in schools. But that's really not the point.

That was exactly the point to which I was responding. Perhaps you were skimming. <<

Karen -

I don't think that was the point in the post to which you were responding. What I took from it was that the author - I don't remember who it was - felt that Palin's support for Creationism in schools was a dealbreaker.

Your inference that he must think there was a high risk of school policies being changed might not have been correct.

He might just have felt, as I do, that her support for Creationism in schools says a lot about how Sarah Palin thinks, and that it sends a more general message about her.

For example, she says that she thinks "both sides" of the Creation/Evolution debate should be taught. That's a rather limited view. There are at least hundreds of creation stories among the many cultures represented within the American population. If we want to provide students with all the available information and allow them to reach their own conclusions, we should teach all those creation stories.

In any case, there's no real scientific debate. There's science, and then there's a religious/political viewpoint wherein that science is questioned.

I know you like to debate one sharply defined point at a time, but sometimes things are interconnected.

- Allen
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