In article <ful81g$ile$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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"Mike Combs" <mikecombs@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
> "Anarcissie" <anarcissie@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:anarcissie-F6F253.09161822042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > Freedom
> > to believe whatever you want includes not only freedom
> > to believe in the Bible but freedom to believe in the
> > Great Purple Unicorn or in nothing at all. ID is
> > religion shooting itself not in the foot but the head.
>
> Don't mistake what they say they want for what they really want. They
say
> they want more freedom in the classroom, up to and including the freedom
to
> slip in a little bit of ID once in a while. But what they really want
is
> what they had in the first place and lost: the political power to outlaw
> Darwin from the classroom and mandate that creationism ONLY can be
taught.
>
> They've lost a lot of ground since the Scopes Monkey Trial, and they're
just
> trying to take us all one baby step back in the direction they want
things
> going in.
That may be so, but by inspiring critical thinking and
the rejection of authoritarian belief, they're actually
moving in the opposite direction. If I were a teacher
and ID came up in class I would welcome it as an
excellent op****tunity to demonstrate the scientific
method. I have heard, though, that the movie we're
discussing is full of lies, so it might be too easy to
dispose of.
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