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From: bermes@ihu1m.UUCP (Terry Bermes)
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Subject: Re: Re: Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
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Date: Fri, 18-Jan-85 13:55:02 EST
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   Jeff Sonntag:

>   When else in the history of science have one of the proponents of rival
>scientific theories tried to use the legal system to 'prove' (or at least
>or at least prevent the other theory from being heard) their own theories?
>Nowhere!  Disagreeing scientists argue back and forth in journals and letters,
>propose experiments to determine which (if either) theory is correct, etc.
>   Wait a minute!  I just remembered something.  the 'Nowhere!' above is
>wrong.  Creationists have often tried to use the legal system in this way.
>You'd have thought they'd have learned their lesson from their mistake with
>Galileo.

   Is that why the creationist theory is prevented from being taught in
the schools by the legal system? Who is using the legal system to silence
whom?
                                         Terry Bermes