Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihu1m.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!ihu1m!bermes From: bermes@ihu1m.UUCP (Terry Bermes) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Re: Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! Message-ID: <239@ihu1m.UUCP> Date: Fri, 18-Jan-85 13:55:02 EST Article-I.D.: ihu1m.239 Posted: Fri Jan 18 13:55:02 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 19-Jan-85 01:29:46 EST References: <202@decwrl.UUCP> <528@mhuxt.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 17 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