MarkA wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:35:51 -0800, ZeroPoint wrote:
>
>>
>> It has come as quite a surprise to some parents when they learned
>> the extent to which the teaching of evolution permeates the school
>> courses.
>
> These are the same parents who would find it surprising that the Earth
is
> not flat, and the Sun does not revolve around an Earth at the center of
> the Universe.
>
Really? and they are the ones voting for a president.
>> They may have taken for granted that, since they believed the
>> Bible, their children would also accept what the Scriptures say about
>> God and his creating of the earth and living things upon it. But when
>> the school puts forth more effort to emphasize evolution than the
>> parents do to give reasons for belief in creation, it is not difficult
>> to see which viewpoint will more deeply influence the child. (Prov.
>> 22:6; Deut. 6:4-9)
>
> If you want to cripple your child's ability to think by infecting them
> with religious beliefs, that is, unfortunately, your right. Don't
expect
> the public schools to be your willing accomplice.
>
Ah yes, the public school system is to enable children to thinks.
Not according to the following site:
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Stossel/story?id=1500338
Next you are going to claim all the dummies are Christians.
> IOW, teach them that the mythology of Bronze Age goat herders trumps all
> of the scientific progress that has been made in the last 400 years.
Then
> wonder why they grow up and can't work a job more demanding than chief
fry
> cook.
>
Does it matter? You teach them evolution and science and kids are still
dumb.
>
> Teaching your children to believe fairy tales in preference to science
> would be child abuse, IMO. It offends me that the USA is rapidly on its
> way to becoming a "3rd world" nation, due, in large part, to the rise of
> religious fundamentalism, and anti-intellectualism.
>
I see so the dummies are "christians". Well you can move elsewhere like
Darfour.
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