From: Sabine Atkins (sabine@posthuman.com)
Date: Fri Aug 23 2002 - 10:20:21 MDT
Damien Broderick wrote:
> Georgia School Board Requires Balance of Evolution and Bible
>
> Georgia's second-largest school district adopted a policy
> last night that requires teachers to give a "balanced
> education" about the origin of life.
> http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/23/education/23EVOL.html?todaysheadlines
>
>
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>
> This seems to me a move in the right direction but clearly insufficient.
> For true balance the students must also be forced to study, on an equal
> footing, the cosmogonies of Hinduism, the Hairy Ainu, Scientology, and the
> Australian Aborigines. The Georgian proposal is plain bigotry and
> close-mindedness.
>
> Damien Broderick
>
I agree. The religion classes in the school I visited in Germany when I
was 17/18 years old taught what Damien suggests above. I remember being
tested about my knowledge of Buddhism and whether I know what the 5
pillars of Islam are. Unnecessary knowledge? Maybe. But since religion
is so much connected to the traditions that rule daily life in many
cultures, it, IMO, helps to understand them a little bit better.
From Georgia, Cobb county
-- Sabine Atkins, http://www.posthuman.com/
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