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"Christopher Jahn" wrote in message
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> NewportsRetro@ (Steve Newport) wrote in
> news:1438-46DB70B1-457@storefull-3158.bay. :
>
>> The end of INHERIT THE WIND is still spot on. Creationism and
>> evolution are not incompatible. Both should be taught.
>>
>
> They are completely incompatible. A central tenet of Creationism
> is that all life that exists on earth currently is all that has
> ever been created, and that it was created completely just some
> five thousand years ago. Evolution isn't allowed because
> creation is Perfect, having been created by God.
>
> Now, if you want to say that Evolution and a belief in God are
> compatible, I'm with you. I'll even agree that a belief in the
> Bible is compatible with Evolutionary theory. But not
> Creationism.
>
>
>
> --
> }:-) Christopher Jahn
> {:-( /
>
> I may have my faults, but being wrong isn't one of them.
I teach "Inherit the Wind" every year to my sophomores. That isn't my
interpretation of the ending, Steve. My interpretation of Henry Drummond
weighing the two books and finally slapping them together as he left with
both under his arm, is more one of acknowledgement that both are important,
but I don't get the interpretation that both should be taught in school.
Drummonds makes several impassioned speeches to the opposite, actually. One
book speaks of faith, the other speaks of science. Science just isn't
something based on faith, but some faith-based leaders are trying to make a
new science based on fuzzy "fact." One is allegory, the other is research.
No, sorry. I do not believe that creationism should be taught in schools.
I do believe creationism should be taught as lore or allegory, however, in
Sunday School classes. "Render under Caesar...." etc.
--
Moni (fmomoon)
War does not determine who is right,
war determines who is left.--Bertrand Russell