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From: robinson@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jim Robinson)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Education of creationists' children
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Date: Wed, 28-Nov-84 22:15:38 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 28 22:15:38 1984
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>  ==============
>  To sum up, I think that creationist children should not be
>  required to attend classes that they deem offensive to 
>  their religion.  At the same time, we should make sure that
>  creationists will not force pseudo-science into the science
>  classroom.
>  -- 
>  
>  Yosi Hoshen
>  ==============
>  
>  I originally suggested that the right to determine their children's
>  education might be taken from creationists (I should have said SOME
>  creationists, perhaps, but the more extreme claim will do for now).
>  This suggestion was provoked by a series of bewildering pseudo-physics
>  comments made by a creationist, that showed that he had been denied
>  a significant chunk of the heritage of human Civilization.
>  What is more disturbing, he seems not to be aware of his deprivation,
>  as a slave may not be aware of his lack of freedom.
>
>  Martin Taylor
>

I suppose that what is really being discussed here is whether the
children of creationists should be required to learn about evolution.
Well, just recently there was, here in B.C., a problem along the same
lines. The solution was quite simple and, at least in my mind, quite 
fair. All students were required to learn about the *theory* of
evolution ( in the appropriate biology courses ) , and would be 
expected to answer questions on it in provincial exams. However,
after answering these questions the student would then be allowed
to put down on his exam paper that he did not agree with the said theory,
and I suppose give his own views. This seemed like a reasonable
solution to me since it made the creationists happy and also still
resulted in evolution being taught to their children. 

                                              J.B. Robinson