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From: pmd@cbscc.UUCP (Paul Dubuc)
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Subject: Re: New Tactics by Creationists?
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Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 11:09:37 EDT
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I don't think either tactic is especially new.  These creationists
have been playing both sides of the coin for years.  I think it
depends largely on what standard their opposition uses most for
maintaining the inequity between the representation of creationist
and evolutionist ideas in the public schools.  If it is said that
creationism must be banned because it is religious, then attempts
are made to show that evolutionism is as much so.  If it is said
that only scientific opinion should be allowed in, then attempts are
made to show that creationist ideas are really just as scientific
as those of evolutionists.  This is really the same argument cast
in negative and postitive terms, respectively.  They are the two
sides of the same coin; the bottom line being that there is an unfounded
inequity sustained in whichever way the standard is presented.

Personally, I think the tacitic of trying to get evolutionism banned
from the schools is very wrongheaded, just as it is wrong to ban
creationist ideas.  Creationists should not be using the same tactics
by which they say they have been wronged.
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Paul Dubuc 	cbscc!pmd