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