Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site elsie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxn!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!umcp-cs!cvl!elsie!mark From: mark@elsie.UUCP (Mark J. Miller) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Re: Education Message-ID: <4090@elsie.UUCP> Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 09:07:22 EST Article-I.D.: elsie.4090 Posted: Mon Dec 3 09:07:22 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 6-Dec-84 05:35:38 EST References: <508@uwmacc.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: NIH-LEC, Bethesda, MD Lines: 36 > > [Martin Taylor] > > I conclude that Q-Bick (what an appropriate pseudonym) has neither > > interest nor appreciation of elementary physics. It is this kind > > of argument that leads me to answer Paul Dubois that indeed, creationists > > should NOT be allowed to determine how their children are schooled. > > The children should not be punished by a denial of their potential > > heritage, simply because their immediate family glories > > in their ignorance. > > This is certainly an interesting idea. Because I am alleged > to be ignorant, Mr. Taylor proposes that I shall no longer have > a say in my children's education, and that instead he should > be the arbiter of what is taught to them. > > Accepting for purposes of this posting the equivalence of creationism > and religion (though I don't usually), it's always interesting to > observe how the religious are told to keeps their hands off of > everybody else's mind, but the non-religious, notwithstanding the > continual noise about tolerance, etc., delegate to themselves the > authority to final rule on issues of paramount importance to the > religious. > -- > Paul DuBois {allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois An excellent example of Creationist hypocrisy. They see nothing wrong with cramming their view of religion down my childs throat (sorry, Paul, Creationism is solely based on religion), but they start sounding like liberals when somebody advocates doing it to them. I also note, with some little amusement, how they equate non-belief in Creationism with being non-religious. Nothing like the old straw man, is there? -- Mark J. Miller NIH/NCI/DCE/LEC UUCP: decvax!harpo!seismo!elsie!mark Phone: (301) 496-5688