Re: The El Tajon situation [was Judge Jones sided]

On 1/11/06, Ted Davis <tdavis@messiah.edu> wrote:
>
>
> Responding to Rich, now, I don't think that anyone should abandon any
> particular idea b/c of the judge's ruling here. I continue to think that
> we
> need to revise our idea of what counts as public education, to break down
> the monopoly that "secular" education presently holds on our schools.
> "Secular" in the sense of disallowing religious views to be expressed is
> not
> nearly the same thing as "secular" in the sense of genuine neutrality
> toward
> all individual expressions of religion. There's the problem, as I have
> thought for about twenty years. Johnson and his friends are entirely
> right
> about that part, and I've thought so before they were saying it.
>
> Ted

I think we are the same page here. What I am proposing is to call the
secularist's bluff. Namely, force them to be as neutral as they claim. If
the neutrality is genuine, then science education is improved because the
limitations of science are better understood by the students. If not, it
flushes out the Dawkins wannabes. My abandonment of ID is motivated by that
it unintentionally gives aid and comfort to the latter group of secularists.
Johnson was right to oppose Dawkins but he was wrong because Johnson didn't
oppose Dawkins enough and adopted Dawkins' warfare model.
Received on Wed Jan 11 12:01:57 2006