I agree.
Douglas Laycock University of Texas Law School 727 E. Dean Keeton St. Austin, TX 78705 512-232-1341 (phone) 512-471-6988 (fax) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Brayton Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 3:20 PM To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics Subject: Re: Kansas and Intelligent Design: A Twist Douglas Laycock wrote: >Well, yes and no. Ed's examples are all cases where religions make >claims about the natural world: claims within the domain of science to >investigate and within the domain of government to respond to. When >religion makes claims that are more exclusively religious -- claims >about the supernatural, about the existence and nature of God, about >God's desires for humans -- then it is true that government cannot say >those claims are false. I well recognize that the examples between the >dashes are a first approximation and not an adequate definition. > That's a reasonable distinction. But ID is clearly in the first camp and not the second and therefore to teach that it is false would not be an EC problem. Ed Brayton _______________________________________________ To post, send message to [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others. _______________________________________________ To post, send message to [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.
