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From: johnston@spp1.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: Education of creationists' children
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Date: Fri, 30-Nov-84 12:36:12 EST
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I will not reprint the posting by Yosi Hoshen for space condierations, but
I'd like to respond to his analogy between education being mental food as
necessary as physical food.

All this I grant, but creationist are not advocating starving their children
from mental food but, instead, providing mental food they consider to be
more nourishing and in fact non-poisonous.

In the case of blood transfusions, certain religious sects prohibit any
way of obtaining blood. There should be safeguards against this, but I
don't think anyone should be prohibiting a group from using another method
to obtain the benefits of blood transfusion without using the transfusion.

Getting back to the analogy of food, if you were a committed vegetarian
and provided very nicely what you condider to be nutritous non-meat
food for your children, would you consider the "right" of society to force
your children to eat hot dogs in the school cafeteria, because, in their
minds, you were poisoning your children by not allowing them to eat meat.

Do you see the point? By looking at the net, you can see that the origin
issue is not settled. Both sides could and do consider the teaching of the
other point of view as being detrimental IF THAT WERE THE ONLY SIDE
PRESENTED.

What you've presented seems to advocate one view over the other. A
creationist with the same thinking would advocate the same thing (Of course,
the views would be switched). A standoff, eh? Wouldn't it be better to
allow concerned parents to effect the possibility of both views being
presented and allow education to return to the task of providing an
environment in which an educated and aware child can choose.


				Mike Johnston