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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (1037)	10/2/1999 6:42:00 PM
From: birdseye	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 69300

Interesting excerpt from the article: The battle over evolution and religion is really a battle between state and parental authority. The obvious way to resolve it is to cut the state out of education, making all schools private. Parents who really wanted their kids to absorb the Darwinian philosophy would be free to have their own schools; Christian parents would have their own schools too. What would be different? Obviously the statists would lose their privileged status and their huge captive audience. They would be forced to compete on equal terms with people they prefer to rule as intellectual serfs. It's odd that Darwinians should be so afraid of competition! But the state has no business controlling children's minds. Making education private would be a giant step in keeping with a great American tradition: decentralizing power.

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (1037)	10/3/1999 9:56:00 PM
From: Akula	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

The reason why many people have a big problem with the decision of the Kansas school board is that it is simply stupid. Anyone that is even slightly scientifically literate and objective will be forced to accept that evolution is the best scientific explaination of origins we have. By denying it, the Kansas School Board has elimenated a basic part of education from the curriculum. There is nothing more to it. I assure you that there is no hidden liberal agenda.