Re: Cobb County

From: George Murphy <gmurphy@raex.com>
Date: Sun Jan 16 2005 - 20:01:18 EST

----- Original Message -----
From: "Either Carol or John Burgeson" <burgytwo@juno.com>
To: <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 4:45 PM
Subject: Re: Cobb County

>>> But I see no justification for singling out evolution to
> make this point - unless one has objections to the theory other than
> scientific ones.>>
>
> But one person's "science" may well be "religion" to another person,
> George.
>
> Science by "majority rule" is what rules the education roost today, with
> no allowance for alternatives.
>
> I think that's wrong. And stupid, for it begets other ills.

Let a 1000 flowers bloom! Do we get to teach Lysenkoism? Shall we stop
teaching that diseases are caused by micro-organisms because some people
think they're caused by demons? (That may sound like religion to you but
it's some people's science.)

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
Received on Sun Jan 16 20:01:13 2005

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