"Duane Bozarth"
Fletis Humplebacker wrote:

"John Emmons"

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As for your "fairness" statement, there is nothing fair about the so called
"intelligent design" campaign. It is religious fundamentalism and evangelism
trying to force it's way into the arena of public education.

No, it's an attempt to balance secular fundamentalism for the sake
of a fair education.

"Fair" is in the eye of the beholder.


Fair 'nuff.


Science, like life, isn't a sport
w/ rules of "fair play" in the sense you're implying here.


I was talking about the education of science, not science itself.


It's based
on the best available knowledge at the time and as well as the subject
under discussion evolves w/ time. A fair amount of the physics my HS
instructor was teaching wasn't even conceived of when he was doing his
undergraduate training just as in biology the knowledge of DNA and gene
mapping is something new within our lifetimes. The problem is, what
you're advocating just doesn't make it on the scene as actual science
despite the protestations of vocal advocates, hence the fallback to
claims of deserving "fairness".


Then you misinterpreted the viewpoint. When you teach that we
crawled out of the mud it isn't science either. Many people want
their tax monies spent with some consideration to them instead
of just a biased secular view. That would be fair to the unbiased mind.



Did you know that many (most?) Christians believe in evolution?

Irrelevant whether they do or don't...


It was relevent to John's comment about evolutionists knocking
on church doors.


I don't share you belief that Intelligent Design is fundamentalism.

Whatever it is, it isn't science...


Science is the study. To exclude ID (unfairly) when many scientists
do see evidence of it isn't science either. But as you may well know
science isn't limited to what has been proven categorically.