Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois) Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Education Message-ID: <508@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Sat, 1-Dec-84 16:39:20 EST Article-I.D.: uwmacc.508 Posted: Sat Dec 1 16:39:20 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 05:30:23 EST Distribution: net Organization: UW-Madison Primate Center Lines: 23 > [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. -- Paul DuBois {allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!dubois