Marty,
My apologies if you felt the _expression_ I
used was in poor taste and inappropriate. While I view the _expression_
differently, I can understand why a person would view it as you do, and
I'll refrain from using it here again.
As to the biology text in question, it's
certainly appropriate
Brad's hypothesis would be more convincing if the school's science books
also included explanations that various religions posit(ed) a geocentric
universe, reject germs and other physical explanations as a cause of
disease, and offer supernatural explanations for weather phenomena. The
reality is
a scientific perspective, and thus an inadvisable and
unfortunate curricular decision.
- Original Message -
From:
Brad
M Pardee
To: Law & Religion issues for Law
Academics
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 3:35
PM
Subject: Re: RE:creationsim redux
Marc, I
Marc,
I think it is a victory (albeit a very small
one) for ID supporters because it means a textbook publisher had the nerve
to acknowledge that many people do not believe in evolution. And
Americans United is undoubtedly unhappy that not every publisher is drinking
the koolaid.
Marty,
Isn't it
, November 28, 2005
3:09 PM
To: Law
& Religion issues for Law Academics
Subject: Re: RE:creationsim redux
Marc: Might it have something to do with the fact that
the statement appears in
a biology text, rather than in a comparative religions
text, and that therefore the foreseeable -- and, da
tered throughout this particular biology text . . . but I doubt
it.
- Original Message -
From:
Marc
Stern
To: Law & Religion issues for Law
Academics
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 2:58
PM
Subject: RE:creationsim redux
A news s
A news story from Florida
reports that a text being considered for adoption in the Broward
County (Florida) contains the following sentences:
The high school text,
Biology: The Dynamics of Life, says on Page 388:
"Many of the world's
major religions teach th
