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Originally posted by Metalpunk37:
Sounds like robert is losing,
I don't think you quite understand the perniciousness and pervasiveness of Robert's position. Both you and Percy are, IMO, underestimating the threat this attitude represents. A mere glance at your daily newspaper will show how often science education in the US is being assaulted by the often thinly-disguised attitude portrayed here. From Kansas to Colorado to Ohio, whether you call it creationism or Intelligent Design, the fundamentalists are attacking the foundations of empirical science. At long last some groups of scientists are realizing that they are going to have to counter this effort with similar efforts to make science more accessible to the average person. (See for ex, the article "Evolution's Struggle for Existence in America's Public Schools",
Evolution, vol 55, #12, Dec 2001 - available on-line, but I don't have a link).
I know we should be tolerant of other's beliefs. Sorry, Percy, but when I read something like this coupled with Robert's other posts, I don't hear the gentle church bells of a benevolent Christianity. I hear instead the echo of the muezzin and the roar of the mujaheddin.
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