April 18, 2005 10:53AM
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Hi Alex,
That this is the first time you've come across the term indicates how muddled the debate gets. It is a fundamental distinction - "creation science" is a manifestation of a deliberate campaign designed to have a literalist Christian Protestant view of the world taught as science and, in so doing, circumvent the US constitutional block on religious teaching in public schools. The movement is overtly political in its aims.
You have to bear in mind that this ISN'T a campaign to have the creation story taught in schools as part of religious education or social studies. It is specifically aimed at having the literal interpretation of Genesis taught in biology and science classes.
Personally I think that religion should be studied in schools - but as religion, not science.
Pete
God is our guide! from field, from wave, From plough, from anvil, and from loom; We come, our country's rights to save, And speak a tyrant faction's doom: We raise the watch-word liberty; We will, we will,we will be free!
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