On 07 Oct 2005 10:33:05 EDT, Tim Daneliuk
wrote:

Slavery did not fall until there was a significant *popular* opposition
to it (brought about, BTW, by *religion* in large part), so no, the
"vast majority" did not support it forever. Moreover, the
issue of what ought to be taught in schools is not a civil liberties
issue like slavery. i.e., It is not a "freedom thing." Public schools
are funded at the point of the taxman's gun. This means that if everyone
is forced to pay up, then basic fairness demands that everyone gets a
voice in what is taught, however boneheaded their ideas might be.


So, Tim, are you going to scream bloody murder when the public schools
are forced to teach Islam, Buddism, Satanism along with astrology and
magic spells?

Let's teach facts as we know and can attempt to prove tehm, ID is
unprovable, period. There is no test for a God or Intelligent
Designer. ID'ers keep throwing up the strawman about axioms, but
answer me this.. Who created God. ID'ers keep saying that you can't
get something from nothing, so some ID'er needs to answer that
question with a verifiable test before they get to start teaching
superstitution in public schools........