From: Ascmjk@aol.com
Date: Sat Nov 13 2004 - 19:24:06 GMT
In a message dated 11/13/2004 8:58:11 AM Central Standard Time,
peterson.steve@verizon.net writes:
No, I'm just wondering what the fear is about teaching Creationism. I
can't even imagine what that would look like in a science classroom
other than the teacher saying that some people believe that God created
all the species to be how they are. What else would be said? I imagine
that a discussion of the relative merits of different ideas about the
origin of species would ensue, but I can't think of what the lesson on
Creationism would be like. Can you help me imagine it?
I thought it was a theory. Since science has no values (not officially), the
theory of Creationism is no more or less moral than than any other theory.
Then again, according to science, morality itself is a fiction. Maybe some people
are saying that certain fiction is OK, but other kinds of fiction is not.
Some people think that basing your life on the fiction of God is stupid, but
basing your life on the fiction of morality is sort of necessary to prevent chaos.
(Is it just me, or is that a conservative kind of idea? that morality is
needed to "conserve" order?) Hmm. Jon
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