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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Chris land who wrote (3835)	12/2/2000 10:10:56 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

See democracy (in the form of "the people") doesn't get to vote on science. If 84% thought the earth was a dodecahedron, I wouldn't teach it in the school. If that is liberal, then "guilty". But that is not really the definition of liberal.

To: Chris land who wrote (3835)	12/2/2000 10:15:58 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Being educated and dealing in information, either attracts freethinkers, or opens the minds of people in the business so they are no longer fundamentalists. Perhaps "liberal bias" really means, free of fundamentalist bias? I suppose it's like accents, it all depends on how you are looking at it. Creationism is a belief. Evolution is a theory. I do not pray about evolution. I do not go to a church where evolution is an article of faith or something to worship. If evidence (good evidence) comes along that makes another theory more likely that will by my new theory. If VERY strong evidence came along that made creationism absolutely untenable, know what some fundamentalists would say? "Those facts are the work of the devil put there to fool us." I've heard that said about FOSSILS! How can such people be regarded as anything but loony by rational people? They are incapable of scientific thought. You can be something else, but you cannot be a scientist with a closed mind.