Re: [asa] Discovery Institute against harmonizing?

> I am not suggesting that teaching a scientific concept that disagrees with a
> parent's belief is unconstitutional. The Constitutional problem arises from
> adressing the parent's perceived conflict in religious terms. If you
> specifically say "belief in a spherical earth does not conflict with
> religion," that is a religious statement, which is completely different than
> having a globe in the classroom or teaching the facts of the earth's
> geometry.

To what extent, if any, does it affect the legal situation if one were
to state that it is possible to harmonize many religious viewpoints
with evolution? There seems to be ambiguity in the interpretation of
above statements on the compatibility of evolution and religion. Does
one mean
A) that every religion ought to be OK with evolution?
B) that it is logically possible to accept evolution while holding
various religious beliefs?

A seems to run into legal problems (not that I agree at all with the
current judicial take on the establishment clause). B is less clearly
commenting on the merits of a particular religious belief.

-- 
Dr. David Campbell
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University of Alabama
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