On Aug 30, 2008, at 1:10 PM, Jon Louis Mann wrote: > "Bruce Bostwick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote: >> I'd say it's quite possible to build an entire >> course curriculum >> around the study of and comparisons between creation myths. >> It would definitely be an interesting course, especially for >> fundamentalists who want creationism taught in public >> schools, >> although they would almost certainly not like teaching >> creationism in >> classes where the competition with other belief systems is >> completely legitimate .. :D ) > > I took an anthropology class in college; I believe it was called > Comparative Religion. I consider it social science, rather than > real science. > Jon
Exactly. The study of creationism *as a belief system*, within the context of a course on studying belief systems themselves and their history of development, is entirely legitimate science. But it's a scientific study of human behavior (and, to some extent, cognition) as well as a critical approach to religious literature, not an attempt to *apply* a particular belief system to biology and call it science. :) "I'm over the moon. This is my over-the-moon face." -- Toby Ziegler _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
