From: Jay Willingham (jaywillingham@cfl.rr.com)
Date: Thu Sep 11 2003 - 12:08:17 EDT
The comparative religion course I took at Duke lo these many moons ago
compared the world's great religions and did not touch on secular humanism
or evolution as the source of life.
Jay
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From: "Sarah Berel-Harrop" <sec@hal-pc.org>
Cc: <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 11:12 AM
Subject: Re: Tit for Tat?
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> From: "Ted Davis" <TDavis@messiah.edu>
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> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 9:38 AM
> Subject: Re: Tit for Tat?
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> > Is is spiritually dangerous to teach YEC or TE, or some other position
on
> > origins?
> >
> > This is a very important question. Daniel Dennett and Richard Dawkins
> > believe that it is *politically* dangerous to teach anything even
smelling
> > like traditional religion, on any issue whatever; they have made
> > inflammatory, intolerant statements about this that are well known.
>
> I am fairly sure Dawkins has written in favor of teaching
> comparative religion, this is routinely done in the UK. I
> can try to dig up the reference if you like. I think the
> context was that this is the appropriate place to teach
> religious origins concepts, but I possibly misremember.
> Although, note, when you teach comparative religion,
> you are simply teaching this is what religion A,B,C
> states about issue X,Y,Z; and in that vein, it isn't
> actually a traditional religious teaching on any given
> issue, so your statement would still be basically correct.
>
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