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To: Nate who wrote (735)9/17/1999 3:20:00 PM
From: Bill Ounce  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 69300
 
re: Creationism taught in schools.

It's OK to teach Christian Biblical Creationism in public schools, but as long as it is in a religion/literature class and not a Science class. It would also be interesting to teach some of the other (dozens of) creation stories from other religions.

Creationism is not the alternative to the theory of evolution, It's one of many possibilites, and it's not yet (perhaps ever) a scientific alternative.

Nate wrote:
and i agree to the fact that you can believe what you choose and i will not declare your but i do believe that both evolutuionism and creationism THEORIES should be taught in school and the developing minds of the children of our nation should be allowed to choose which they follow. not calling one or the other fact but the right to freedom of religion is a right.



To: Nate who wrote (735)9/17/1999 9:21:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 69300
 
I think we need to distinguish between "evolutionism" (a science-based belief that has humans coming from proto-apes who came from bugs who came from mud...) from "evolution" (the observed capacity of populations of organisms to adapt to environmental pressure). I accept evolution as fact and I entertain evolutionism as a Neat Idea, but not fact.