Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site psivax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!psivax!friesen 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 Article-I.D.: psivax.171 Posted: Mon Dec 3 13:30:24 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 6-Dec-84 03:21:08 EST References: <886@ihuxn.UUCP> <1231@dciem.UUCP> <2319@ihnss.UUCP> <2835@ucbcad.UUCP> Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley friesen) Organization: Pacesetter Systems Inc., Sylmar, CA Lines: 15 Xref: watmath net.origins:567 net.politics:6050 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.