From: m (mt_2@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Aug 12 1999 - 03:09:07 MDT
--- Spike Jones <spike66@ibm.net> wrote:
> > > > Kansas school board drops evolution
> > > > New curriculum guidelines exclude scientific
> theory
> > > > http://www.msnbc.com/news/299412.asp
> > >
>
> In the 1970s Florida managed to teach so very little
> about
> evolution in the schools, I knew not one damn thing
> about it
> (except the ridiculing caricatures) until college,
> even tho I
> had taken 2 years of the biology/life sciences
> courses.
I pity the American schoolkids, I pity freedom of
thought of this kind of stuff goes on.
Schoolkids have a right to religious studies (and
there are many religions, and interpretations apart
from what a fundamentalist might like).
But they also have a right to a Science curriculum
that hasn't been neutred by censors.
Dogmatism is the software version of lobotomy.
I'm glad (at the moment) that I live in Australia.
But there have been campaigns to do the same here.
This kind of thing sets a precedent the world over.
--- PS (re a post elsewhere in this thread) I don't think it's fair to associate anti-g*n attitudes with creationist fundamentalism, just as strong a case could be made for associating pro-g*n attitudes with fundamentalism. I don't think it helps anybody to conflate the issues. Mike _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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