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To: Coyoteman
"They teach the theory of evolution as, well, a theory. That's why its called the theory of evolution."

Wrong. You must not have kids in school. You're obviously not in touch with the primary biology textbooks in use. It is taught as absolute FACT. When the Georgia Board of Education attempted to add an insert to the flyleafs of these colorful screeds suggesting that Evolution was a theory, the Evo community rose up with their allies at the ACLU and declared "theory my patootie, it is uncontrovertible fact!"

You can't have it both ways.

144 posted on 10/14/2006 7:08:50 PM PDT by cookcounty (Coach Hastert: Stop acting like a Dhimmicrat!!!)
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To: cookcounty
"They teach the theory of evolution as, well, a theory. That's why its called the theory of evolution."

Wrong. You must not have kids in school. You're obviously not in touch with the primary biology textbooks in use. It is taught as absolute FACT. When the Georgia Board of Education attempted to add an insert to the flyleafs of these colorful screeds suggesting that Evolution was a theory, the Evo community rose up with their allies at the ACLU and declared "theory my patootie, it is uncontrovertible fact!"

I have taught evolution, not in high school but in college. I do have some understanding of the subject.

The attempt in Georgia to place stickers on textbooks was absolutely dishonest. It was designed solely to cast doubt on the theory of evolution. It came about because the fundamentalists could not get evolution out of the textbooks.

Now, we all know that all theories in science are, well, theories. But that is not what the folks in Georgia cared about--they hated evolution and wanted to select it out of all scientific theories for "special" treatment. That's dishonest, much like ID.

If you want to do religion, fine, but don't try to pretend you are doing science!

147 posted on 10/14/2006 7:16:25 PM PDT by Coyoteman (I love the sound of beta decay in the morning!)
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