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To: Tunica Albuginea who wrote (748)	9/17/1999 6:17:00 PM
From: Fangorn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 69300

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. If someone wants to send their child to a school that uses the Bible as the textbook in science class that is fine. 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.