Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site spp1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwspp!spp2!spp1!johnston From: johnston@spp1.UUCP Newsgroups: net.origins Subject: Re: Re: Education of creationists' children Message-ID: <125@spp1.UUCP> Date: Fri, 30-Nov-84 12:36:12 EST Article-I.D.: spp1.125 Posted: Fri Nov 30 12:36:12 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Dec-84 05:58:58 EST References: <886@ihuxn.UUCP> <1231@dciem.UUCP> Organization: TRW, Redondo Beach CA Lines: 33 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