Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site osu-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!osu-eddie!karl From: karl@osu-eddie.UUCP (Karl Kleinpaste) Newsgroups: net.origins,net.politics Subject: Re: Re: Re: Education of creationists' children Message-ID: <6@osu-eddie.UUCP> Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 16:27:03 EST Article-I.D.: osu-eddi.6 Posted: Mon Dec 3 16:27:03 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 19:39:11 EST References: <886@ihuxn.UUCP> <1231@dciem.UUCP> <2319@ihnss.UUCP> <2835@ucbcad.UUCP> Organization: Society for the Advancement of Raw Weirdness Lines: 34 Xref: watmath net.origins:563 net.politics:6010 ---------- > But this is the basic difference between the creationists and the > evolutionist's positions. The evolutionists believe that the proper > way to think is to look at the facts and form a theory consistent > and supportive of them, and the creationists believe that the proper > way to think is to accept the "word of God", and trust what people > have been thinking for thousands of years. ---------- Now that paragraph is singularly irritating. I happen to dislike the way that *both* "creationists" and "evolutionists" present their arguments. (Personally, I have next-to-no-opinion at all, but...) It is not the case that "creationtionists" simply check their brains at the door when they come to scientific questions. "Evolutionists" have certain evidence which they find compellingly convincing. Fine. "Creationists" happen to have a body of evidence (yes, evidence, you can't just dismiss it as 100% garbage) which they find equally compellingly convincing. It is highly unfair to attempt to simply dispense with half of an argument by claiming that that other side doesn't approach the problem from a rational point of view. It's not true, and the attack doesn't work. Both sides think. Both sides reach conclusions. The conclusions just happen to be different. I am attempting to stay out of this argument as much as possible, because, as I said, I have no particular stake in it. But I would appeal to everyone to allow the possibility that in fact the people on the other side of the fence also have functioning, thinking, and mostly rational brains in operation, too. Please try not to forget that. -- From the badly beaten keyboards of best address---+ him who speaks in *TyPe* f-O-n-T-s... | V Karl Kleinpaste @ Bell Labs, Columbus 614/860-5107 {cbosgd,ihnp4}!cbrma!kk @ Ohio State University 614/422-0915 cbosgd!osu-eddie!karl