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From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois)
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Subject: Education
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Date: Sat, 1-Dec-84 16:39:20 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec  1 16:39:20 1984
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> [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.
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Paul DuBois		{allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois