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Author Topic:   Creationism in science classrooms (an argument for)
Minnemooseus
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Message 430 of 609 (611065)
04-05-2011 1:16 AM
Reply to: Message 429 by Robert Byers
04-05-2011 12:53 AM


Reality that conflicts with religious belief must be suppressed?
then i say they are in fact breaking this very law.
for in origin subjects they are teaching religious doctrines are untrue and banning creationism is a second point of the state saying these doctrines are untrue.
So, if worldly reality conflicts with someones religious belief, then we must not teach about that worldly reality?
Moose

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Minnemooseus
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Message 448 of 609 (611458)
04-08-2011 1:45 AM
Reply to: Message 447 by Robert Byers
04-08-2011 1:29 AM


So, what if some religion believes that 2+2=5?
By your reasoning, if someone had the religious based belief that 2+2=5, then the public schools could not teach that 2+2=4, because that would be teaching that the 2+2=5 religious belief is wrong.
Moose
Added by edit: The teaching of 2+2=4 being correct is NOT the teaching that the religious belief of 2+2=5 is wrong. It does imply that 2+2=5 is wrong, and the religious believer may infer that they are teaching that 2+2=5 is wrong. But implications and inferrals are not explicit teachings.
Edited by Minnemooseus, : See above.

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