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[TerranC]

11. If we are not supposed to teach religion in schools, then why not get evolution out of the textbooks? It is just a religious worldview.

1. Religions don't concern themselves with the brain; it concern themselves with the heart, and emotions of the person. A heavily battered person could find solace in a religion, but could follow that religion to it's strictest letter, not outgrowing the emotional support it gives.

2. There are many religions in the world. Christianity, Islam, Buddism, Shintoism, Daoism, Zoroastrinism, Paganism, Judaism, and others. Then you have sects/churches. Catholics and Protestants, Shiia and Sunni, Confusicians and buddhists, to name a few. Which one are you going to choose to teach? You can't teach all of them. If you teach one, you might offend the other.

3. Examples of the effects: Al Queda, Hazballah, Fatah, The Children's Crusade, Et cetera.

4. Similar case: Japan's education ministry publishing a textbook that were written by nationalists that has almost no mention of Japan's atrocities during WW2.

These are my 2 cents.

Edit: Post number 110.

[ December 12, 2002, 02:58: Message edited by: TerranC ]