Re: virus: education and the state
Sodom (sodom@ma.ultranet.com)
Fri, 17 Oct 1997 16:56:23 -0400
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> Sodom, I agree with you totally. School is not the place for
> religious instruction UNLESS it is a private, religious institution.
> I come from the OLD BAPTIST TRADITION--separation of church and state
> as far as that is possible. However, I also cannot see teaching
> children something that supposedly happened 18 billion years ago (i.e.
>
> the formation of the Universe) without predicating it with "THIS IS
> ONLY A THEORY--AN EDUCATED GUESS--APT TO BE REVISED AND CHANGED AS
> NEW INPUT IS RECEIVED. THIS IS NOT GOSPEL. DAWKINS WAS NOT THERE.
> STEVEN HAWKING WAS NOT THERE AND NO ONE KNOWS WHERE IN THE HELL CARL
> SAGAN IS RIGHT NOW--THAT IS ANYBODY'S GUESS. But, as I asked the
> Nateman, if Sagan is in hell, do you suppose it is billions and
> billions and billions of degrees there? Chardin
Chardin,
Killer reply, I still believe evolution all the way up the ladder
should be taught as fact. The big bang however should be taught as
theory as i have seen enough of these theories to believe that there are
other less viable but possible options. As for Carl Sagan, if he is in
hell, then I am sure the temperature is as high as the soul can handle,
and he is writhing in it. Otherwise, I hope his remaining physical
material falls on some lovely, early forming planet and he becomes the
father of an entire ecosystem.
Sodom