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To: Exigence
The point is that science teachers are prohibited from uttering anything that might critcize evolution.

Can you substantiate this point? Are they forbidden to discuss scientific questions within evolution, or are they forbidden to discuss religious alternatives, such as CS and ID which are not science, but beliefs?

Definitions:

Theory: a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena; "theories can incorporate facts and laws and tested hypotheses"; "true in fact and theory"

Belief: any cognitive content (perception) held as true

Based on this, evolution is a theory. CS and ID are beliefs.

38 posted on 10/28/2005 3:07:04 PM PDT by Coyoteman (I love the sound of beta decay in the morning!)
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To: Coyoteman
Are they forbidden to discuss scientific questions within evolution

Yes... that is what I said, isn't it? That has been the point from the beginning -- the one the press keeps forgetting to report. Strange how that happens, isn't it?

279 posted on 10/31/2005 11:40:03 PM PST by Exigence
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