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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
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Subject: Re: "Secular Humanism" banned in the US Schools.
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> Biology is moving more and more today towards molecular biology. 
> Interpre tation of biology on the molecular level draws  heavily on
> evolutionary ideas.   Trying to decouple evolution from molecular
> biology will undoubtly make teaching this important subject meaningless.
> (See for example: Molecular Biology of the Cell, by B. Alberts
> et. al., 1983, Garland Publishing, Inc. ).  
> I do agree with Bill that creationists should be excused from
> classes that teach evolution. [HOSHEN]

I would agree if we were talking about adults.  If creationist adults in
school chose not to learn about evolution, and thus lose out on a significant
part of education because of their religious beliefs, that is their business.
But it is not adults who go to school.  It is their children.  To claim that
a parent has the right to declare that "this subject should not be taught
to my child" is horrific.
-- 
"Meanwhile, I was still thinking..."
				Rich Rosen  ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr