Re: Cobb County

I recall a book on chemical calculations, when I was in high school many
years ago, whose preface was explicitly atheistic. I have never figured
out what atheism had to do with chemistry. I have not seen such
statements in contemporary texts. Are they actually present, or are you
extrapolating from the absence of mention of God? If they contain
specific anti-religious statements, are there not grounds to have them
barred from classrooms?
Dave

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 19:30:40 -0800 Edward Hassertt <ehassertt@mac.com>
writes:
I would rather have self examining science taught in the classroom than
anything religious, but the way the textbooks are written, with a clear
atheistic and anti-Christian bias (at least the ones I have had to
examine here in Washington), it is not sufficient to allow the status quo
to reign. If a child is taught every day that evolution excludes the
possibility of God, and other "religious" statements made in the name of
science, we need our children to be skeptical of such things. If
evolution were taught without the constant beratement of religion and
exaltation of science as the final arbiter of truth, most Christians
would have little problem with it.

When we here knowledgeable Christians in Science fight to support these
textbooks which we know have clear anti religious statements, it tends to
make us wonder where their loyalty lies, with Christ, or with science. I
know they do not have to be mutually exclusive, and shouldn't be, but the
constant circling of the wagons anytime there is criticism of school
science textbooks really is disturbing from a pastoral point of view (I
was a pastor for several years before attending law school). Why not
textbooks that teach evolution without making religious claims?
Received on Sun Jan 16 23:39:31 2005