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To: Right Wing Professor

This ongoing debate is so ridiculous and I wish it would finally end. Personally, I don't see any reason for science and religion to be in opposition to each other. They have separate roles. Science does not, nor should not, address the existence of God or the way people should live. It addresses the physical world and the way it works. Whether religion should have a place in public schools is a valid question, but, IMO, science class is the last place it should be shoehorned into. Science IS NOT a threat to religion, people! The two things address different questions. Science answers 'how' and religion answers 'why'.


7 posted on 09/30/2005 8:50:50 AM PDT by blueminnesota
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To: blueminnesota
Personally, I don't see any reason for science and religion to be in opposition to each other

Science and religion are not in opposition. Some fringe cults want their dogma to be the law of the land. Same thing happened in Germany in the 1930's.
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8 posted on 09/30/2005 8:57:18 AM PDT by radioman
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It will end soon enough though probably not in our lifetime. God will return and we will all know just how he created everything and how accurately "natural selection" fits into the picture He painted.

Personally I believe the Bible's version: God made it all but any and every possible "evolution" within the "kind" could and may have happened. The idea that we can be both "in the image of God" and a chimp derivative is rediculous. Believe one or the other - not both.

That said, I agree that Creationism should NOT be taught in public schools as science. However, a teacher mentioning that Darwinism has flaws that some resolve with the idea of Intelligent Design is NOT an attack on science!

My boys learn about Darwin and his theories but also learn the story of Creation and how parts of Darwinism don't fit. Yep, my boys are home-schooled and aren't missing a thing in science.

14 posted on 09/30/2005 9:38:45 AM PDT by DesertSapper (I Love God, Family, Country! (and dead terrorists))
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