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Government sponsored religion again. | by Naruki | 2006-11-19 12:55:59 |
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I notice | by hyzenthlay | 2004-10-22 12:47:40 |
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but Native Legends aren't presented as science. | by swisscheese | 2004-10-22 13:07:59 |
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Why not? | by pk2317 | 2004-10-22 13:19:29 |
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because they're not saying | by swisscheese | 2004-10-22 14:05:37 |
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I'm curious - have you read this book? | by pk2317 | 2004-10-22 14:24:22 |
| actually, the question's been settled in US courts |
by swisscheese |
2004-10-22 15:15:17 |
... because of school text-book and curriculum issues.
Quite a number of christian groups participated on the grounds they didn't care to see such travesty laid at the door of their faith.
The arguement that the Grand Canyon is only a few thousand years old was thoroughly trounced, in US courts, in public trials over the presentation of such scientific creationist nonsense as scientific theory in textbooks and curriculae.
You should be able to google it fairly easily.
It's not only govm't "force" but credibility (as I said before) of the Park Service, selling the book as "natural history" or even scientific speculation. (Read the Fine Article).
A book that straight-forwardly admitted to dismissing the real science on purely religious grounds would be less objectionable, if no less ridiculous. And it still wouldn't belong on the NPS bookshelves
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further comments:
In my opinion, this overwhelmingly discredited notion is not "just another viewpoint". It's an attempt (in this case apparently deliberately evading the apropriate review process despite when challenged promising to follow that process) to forward a purely religious/political agenda in the guise of science, regardless of scientific merit. And in contradiction to well established NPS policies.
This is part of an ongoing pattern of behaviour of the Bush administration, which clearly considers mere fact to be irrelevent in regards to such things as global warming, the utility of condoms in reducing STD's, the connections between mid-east heads-of-state to known terrorists, the amount of pollution released by mines failing to satisfy pertinent regulations, the health hazards of mercury, and endless other politically inconvenient or religiously discomfiting realities.
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