>My personal experience of being taught biological evolutionary theory at a
>public (state government) school in Australia in the early 70's is not
>consistent with this claim. Religious and philosophical issues simply were
>not raised in any part of my pre-university science education.
This was my experience as well.
>Does anyone have any examples of quotes from public school or university
>science textbooks, reference material or study aids that specifically deny
>the existence of a personal God or otherwise promote atheism?
I don't have any quotes readily available, but I do have an anecdote. A few
years ago, a Christian colleague (Wayne Becker) was updating his text on
molecular biology (used by secular colleges) and the publishers requested
that he make it apparent in the book that "God is an unecessary hypothesis".
To this he wrote back a scathing letter and pointed out that the publishers
should be thankful that God did not consider them an unecessary hypothesis.
The text was published elsewhere.
>Alternatively, is there anyone on the Reflector who believes that the
>exclusive teaching of biological evolutionary theory in school and
>university science courses IS intrinsically atheistic, and would be willing
>to provide a rigorous defence of that opinion for further discussion?
An answer to this question should consider examples of Christian biologists
teaching evolution. Is this intrinsically atheistic?
steve
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