On 16-Nov-08, at 4:46 PM, Francis Drouillard wrote: > Great Ben Stein documentary "documentary that chronicles my > confrontation with the widespread suppression and entrenched > discrimination that is spreading in our institutions, laboratories > and most importantly, in our classrooms, and that is doing > irreparable harm to some of the world’s top scientists, educators, > and thinkers." --
Because there's no discrimination in the other direction, right? --- Sherman: What will you do to win the votes of the Americans who are atheists? Bush: I guess I'm pretty weak in the atheist community. Faith in God is important to me. Sherman: Surely you recognize the equal citizenship and patriotism of Americans who are atheists? Bush: No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God. Sherman (somewhat taken aback): Do you support as a sound constitutional principle the separation of state and church? Bush: Yes, I support the separation of church and state. I'm just not very high on atheists. --- > <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1091617/> > > It's about Intelligent Design and the crusade against same by those > that mislabel it a way creationism back into the classroom. Nothing > could be further from the truth. Makes you wonder why the > establishment crowd reacts so viscerally to the concept. -- Because it has no basis in science? Teaching Intelligent Design in science class is just as valid as teaching that we live on a giant turtle. Scientifically, there are many faiths, with many conflicting beliefs, none of which can be proven or disproven (outside the fact that 99.9% of them have to be wrong if one of them is right). The idea that schools would teach one and only one is a violation of the separation of church and state and the freedom of religion, given that the freedom of religion exists to protect your right to pursue any faith you wish. > One could make a similar documentary about global warming. -- You can make a movie about anything you wish, that doesn't make it true. Try to make some distinction between what you know and what you believe. If you want Intelligent Design taught in schools, then you've clearly confused the two. -- Michael --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/StrataList-OT?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
