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Originally posted by lbhandli:
What right is that exactly? The only right in relation to religion is that the government will not establish a religion. This means governments will not promote a particular religion or sect. Creationism is nothing but a religious belief by conservative Protestants and therefore not to be taught by the state except in relation to comparative religion classes.
Evolution is a scientific theory. There is nothing in the Constitution that requires the state to not teach anything that people find contrary to their personal beliefs. Teaching science as a field isn't for the purpose of indoctrination, but education. Science education has a purpose entirely separate from promoting a particular faith and therefore your complaint is irrelevant from a Constitutional point of view and from a basic issue of fairness.
If you want to claim we shouldn't teach science, you can attempt that argument, but I doubt it will be successful.
ummm first amendment of the constitution: "Congress shall make no laws respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or....."
it all depends on how you interpert these few words...
evolution is a scientific theory... so was neptunism at it's time... so was cathastrophianism...
i know i know the last two were proven wrong beyond a doubth... but how do we know evolution won't be proven worng?
also... in science you don't attempt to prove anythink correct... you try to disporve somethink and untill somone dose it is accepted to be correct...
and oh yeah could you refer me to a article about half life's always being the same because i am realy interedted in that...