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From: miller@uiucdcsb.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Educational exposure
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Date: Thu, 29-Nov-84 16:29:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 29 16:29:00 1984
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Nf-From: uiucdcsb!miller    Nov 29 15:29:00 1984

> 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
> ==============
> Would you leave a child with parents
> who starve it for food?  No?  Why then would you leave it with parents
> who starve it for mental food?  Malnutrition of the brain has the same
> general effects in both cases.
> Martin Taylor

This is really dumb.  I know I said I wasn't going to reply to anything until I
finished the SOR pamphlets, but I couldn't let this pass by.
No creationist individual/group I'm aware of advocates taking children out of
evolutionary classrooms and/or not allowing them exposure to evolution.  Quite
the contrary, all creationist individuals/groups I'm aware of advocates
presenting *all* of the evidence available for evolution and *all* of the
evidence available for creation.  Creationists, you see, apparently have a
higher respect for the intelligence of students than do evolutionists.  We feel
when presented with  *both sides*, students are smart enough to make up their
own minds.
Now what we have here is yet another example of evolutionists posting myths to
the net.  The inference they have created is that creationists don't want their
children to hear about evolution.  Homework: Demonstrate said claim or retract
it.  I'll accept any published statement, in context, from ICR, CRS, BSA, or
SOR.

A. Ray Miller
Univ Illinois