5/10/2005: Dinosaur tracks

[OnyxCougar]

Originally Posted by jaguar

I said it in the above thread, I don't give a fuck what people believe but I'm sick to the teeth of them trying to thrust their wacky fucking views on everyone else. I mean just look at OnyxCougar 2 posts above trying to claim that a scientific theory is religion for fucks sake.

We've had this discussion on the EvC thread. A religion as defined is a set of beliefs that cannot be proven. Therefore the origins portion of the evolutionary theory is a relgion.

These people and this battle are in danger of becoming the defining cultural struggle of the 21st century, the rational verses the religious.

I noticed the inference that if you're religious you can't be rational. That's simply not true.

it's not about love thy neighbour it's about trying to stop thy neighbour marrying his same-sex partner or forcing my religion down the throats of thy neighbour's son in public-funded schools or stopping thy neighbour having an abortion.

I want it noted here that I don't want to stop gay marriage. I don't want to throw ANY religion (including humanism) down any child's throat in school. I don't want to stop your neighbor having an abortion. Those are all things (marriage and abortion) I firmly believe the persons in question should choose, and have the right to do.

As far as I and many others are concerned there is no more place for this shit in politics than there is sharia law or any other religious code.

I agree. 100%

While your teacher might've gone a little far lookout why in hell should time be given in a classroom to anything other than scientific theory?. Should the class on the solar system be prefaced with - 'this is only a scientific theory, some people think the earth is a disk that sits on the back of four elephants that in turn stand on a gigantic turtle swimming though space'? Why not? Comes from the teachers of another fucking huge religion.

Why do you have to talk about origins at all? Literal Creationists (generally) are not against science. Not at all. Repeatable, observable science SHOULD be taught to every school age child. Speculation and guesswork and exegesis should NOT.

If you give time to humanism, it's only fair and right that you give time to christianity, wicca, hinduism, buddhism, and other creation stories. Otherwise leave them ALL out. Including evolutionary origins.