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To: LindyBill who wrote (151965)	12/20/2005 1:24:40 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 793759

Teaching children superstition is destructive to vulnerable minds. Telling children about every nutty idea that exists is dopey. There's enough to cope with in what is known, without making up Just So stories and presenting them as though they are true. Santa is enough for children. Easter bunny too. Their imaginations are so rampant that even knowing they aren't really true still leaves them with the fun. <"Intelligent design" cannot be mentioned in biology classes in a Pennsylvania public school district, a federal judge said Tuesday, ruling in one of the biggest courtroom clashes on evolution since the 1925 Scopes trial. Dover Area School Board members violated the Constitution when they ordered that its biology curriculum must include the notion that life on Earth was produced by an unidentified intelligent cause, U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III said. Several members repeatedly lied to cover their motives even while professing religious beliefs, he said.> Lying is normal for people who pretend they have the real oil based on superstitious fantasy. They start by lying to themselves and have trouble dealing with reality in general. Mqurice