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to: Jeff Shultz
from: Adam
date: 2005-08-05 10:02:06
subject: Re: Bush reveals his deep grasp of science

From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Jeff Shultz wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 13:24:30 +0100, Adam wrote:
>
>
>>http://news.ft.com/cms/s/e3658032-03bb-11da-b54a-00000e2511c8.html
>>
>>
>>"President George W. Bush stirred the debate on the teaching
of evolution
>>in schools when he said this week that he supported the teaching of
>>alternative viewpoints - such as the theory of Intelligent Design - to
>>help students "understand what the debate is about"."
>>
>>
>>Hey George...it's turtles all the way down.
>>
>>What debate is there with people who simply "believe"?
"Look here's a
>>fossil precursor animal to this animal".....countered via
"aaaaahhhh
>>buuuurllieve". T'riffic debate that.
>
>
> Yep - the NEA doesn't dare give the kids the idea that there might be an
> answer other than what they tell them. Horrors - they might actually start
> thinking for themselves!
>

Fine so let's start teaching them the Greek creation myths, the hindu ones,
the norse ones etc.

no reason to think it's just darwinism vs intelligent design if the idea is
to really open up the debate.


You could make a start by teaching all of these:

http://www.magictails.com/creationlinks.html

etc.

After all the children have to know how the Sun mother created all living things.

Adam

After all if the ideas is

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