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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.origins,net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Education of creationists' children
Message-ID: <171@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 13:30:24 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  3 13:30:24 1984
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Summary: 

In article <2835@ucbcad.UUCP> faustus@ucbcad.UUCP writes:
>
>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.
>	Wayne

	If this is indeed the basis of the creationist position,
then this is the best argument against teaching as it science, science is,
by definition, a method of inquiry based on looking at facts and drawing
conclusions from them.  The method of "accepting the Word od God" is
properly *religion* not science, and should be taught as such.