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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
All I asserted existed was a young filipino boy who believed and wanted to know why it was okay to teach something that made him feel bad about his religion. Do you think the Puritains would have approved.
This is different from a state approved religion taught to discredit other religions how?
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The purpsoe of education is not to make people feel good or bad about their religion, the purpose is to educate. In science class that is to teach the truth the best the science community knows it at the time. If someone's religion beliefs are in conflict with what is taught in science class, that it tough. If the science education curriculum was designed around what didn't conflict with religious ideas the classes would last about two seconds.
It is not OK to teach religious ideas to students in public schools (that is state sponsored religion), but it is OK to teach scientific ideas that conflict with religious ideas. Thre is no rule against the government establishing science just against the government establishing a religion.
The Puritans (whom I am decedent from so I can rag on them all I want) wouldn't approve but they set up a theocracy and burned witches. The Puritans democrat and tolerance credentials are highly suspect.
