In article <b9401f8a.0308111427.3b77f412@posting.google.com>,
jspaceman@linuxquestions.net says...
From the article:
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"An atheist committed to scientific materialism may study the Big
Bang, the laws governing the subsequent organization of matter and,
ultimately, the amphibian from which man is said to have evolved — all
without forfeiting his scholarship,"
In short a person can obtain a scholarship to study science. So what?
The constitution doesn't forbid the establishment of science. It does
forbid the establishment of religion.
they wrote in court papers. "But
Teresa must forfeit her scholarship if she wishes to discuss the
Uncaused Cause
No, she can study that in a philosophy class. Philosophy is one of the
mainstays of western education. She can certainly study Aristotelian
notions like an uncaused cause, since this does not make one into a
priest. If she wants classes only to teach her how to be a priest then
she needs to spend private funds to do that.
that created the stuff of the Big Bang,
Even assuming that this ludicrous take on the big bang were true, a line
had to be drawn somewhere. The constitution does not allow government to
establish religion and paying for the education of priests looks just a
tiny bit like something that establishes religion. That's where the line
was drawn. How the ***** can the government finance religious teaching
and not think that these religious teachings are having the
effect of establishing religion? Does not establishing a religion
involve teaching a religion? If so then the government must not do it.
If not then what on earth does establish a religion?
and the notion
that the laws that govern creation are not merely statistically
improbable but so irreducibly complex that the heavens proclaim the
glory of the Lord."
Amazingly, even these people don't deign to pretend that such nonsense is
truly science.
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Quibbler (quibbler247atyahoo.com)
"It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the
threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, 'mad cow'
disease, and many others, but I think a case can be
made that faith is one of the world's great evils,
comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to
eradicate." -- Richard Dawkins
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