MikeBGene:
>. . . If it turns out the Kansas decision
>was inconsequential, all that talk about the crucial importance of
>macroevolution
>in a state-wide standardized test is going to be exposed as empty
>rhetoric. It will be interesting to see if any scientists ever get around to
>scientifically establishing the importance of macroevolution on standardized
>tests. Of course, why take the risk when the rhetoric "sounds" so good?
the reason the Kansas decision was not inconsequential, is because it is a
step toward a state religion--the Christian religion, specifically
fundamentalist protestantism. Fundamentalist Christian protestants are not
in a majority in this country and even if they were, the Constitution
promises freedom of religion for all the many religions practiced in this
country and also the right to have freedom *from* religion.
Susan
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