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To: truthfinder9
The Dover decision is an attempt by an activist federal judge to stop the spread of a scientific idea

It's not scientific. And he didn't try to stop it's spread. Those people who seek to find a way to develop science to back up ID are still free to do so.

and even to prevent criticism of Darwinian evolution through government-imposed censorship rather than open debate,

Criticize it all you want. Debate it all you want. But such criticism and debate belongs in the scientific literature, not in the classroom. Until there's science to back up the teaching of ID, the only class it belongs in is one for philosophy or comparative religion.

and it won't work,"

Yes, it will. It'll work precisely as it should; find scientific evidence to back up religiously-based assertions and it'll get taught as science. Until then, it won't.

38 posted on 12/20/2005 12:43:28 PM PST by RonF
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To: RonF
Yes, it will. It'll work precisely as it should; find scientific evidence to back up religiously-based assertions and it'll get taught as science. Until then, it won't.

Or you could just go the route of evolutionists and ridicule others repeatedly.

"Why if you don't believe in evolution, you must be a mouth-breathing, myth-believing fundie. Hey, what are you laughing at?! It could happen! No, really!"
68 posted on 12/20/2005 12:57:51 PM PST by WinOne4TheGipper (When in Rome, yell and complain until Romans do what you want them to do. If that fails, sue.)
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