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sgooch@general2.asu.edu
Thu, 05 Sep 1996 05:31:54 -0700

>"Clarence Darrow once argued in the 1925 Scopes Trial that it is "bigotry
>for public schools to teach only one theory of origins." Now that
>evolution is entrenched in public education, the American Civil Liberties
>Union, despite its own cries on behalf of pluralism, insists that only
>one theory of origins be taught. Bigotry has returned to the public
>classroom.
>
>To settle for evolution or "the big bang" theory without God begs a
>thousand scientific questions. Where did the original energy and matter
>come from? What caused the explosion? How could impersonal forces acting
>randomly construct a universe whose planets rotate with such precision
>that we set our clocks by them? It is preposterous to believe that
>"nothing times nobody equals everything!"
>
>-Myths that could destroy America by Erwin Lutzer

The ACLU insists that creation mythology not be taught in public schools
not because there is bigotry in public schools. They insist this because
creation mythology can only be taught in a academic form in a public
school. To do so would be to teach it without its faith based premise.

If creation mythology is introduced into the classroom, all creation
mythologies must be included - not just Christian. All forms of African,
Asian and others would need to be taught. The premise of all these is
faith (they cannot be proven or disproven). If they were
taught as faith, a school would have to have a representative from all
of these religions. This would not be very cost-effective also it would
upset many people - having there children taught other religions in school.
But when creation mythology is taught without faith it produces a secularizing
effect on the students. This would do more to destroy the teachings of any
creation mythology then only teaching common origin theory in public schools.

Evolution on the other hand is not based on faith. It is based on observation.
Teaching evolution in schools and not creation mythology is not anti-pluralism.
Evolution has nothing to do with religion.

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