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To: PatrickHenry
Thanks for the ping:

Everyone agrees that the Scopes trial (viciously caricatured in the play and movie Inherit the Wind) was a setback for the teaching of scientific reasoning. But the same is true of the Georgia ruling, Darwinism being quite obviously a biological theory and open to dispute. To claim otherwise is to be woefully misinformed All biological theories are open to dispute!!! I really don't get the whole "Evolution is just a theory" arguement- so is most of our basic scientific knowledge! A fact is confined to exact temporal and spatial scales. You don't need a sticker in a text book to explain the process of science- any self-respecting professor will do so. Heck I do and I don't have all that much self-respect.

19 posted on 03/22/2005 7:59:23 AM PST by GreenFreeper
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To: GreenFreeper
You don't need a sticker in a text book to explain the process of science- any self-respecting professor will do so.

Except that it is mentioned as fact, not theory, in every cartoon and Tv show out there. You trust the publick screwels to present the process of scientific analysis correctly? Why, teaching kids to reason would undermine their socialist agenda. How can Publick screwels be right in evolution but wrong in all their other agendas? (2+2 = 5, ok if that's the answer that makes you feel good...)

23 posted on 03/22/2005 8:03:14 AM PST by Terriergal (What is the meaning of life?? Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him for ever.)
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To: GreenFreeper
"evolution is a theory not a fact" must be removed from Georgia high school biology texts because it contradicts orthodox science

You don't need a sticker in a text book to explain the process of science- any self-respecting professor will do so.

By the way, that was NOT the argument as you can read. They argued that it CONTRADICTS orthodox science, not that it is redundant.

25 posted on 03/22/2005 8:04:38 AM PST by Terriergal (What is the meaning of life?? Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him for ever.)
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