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Re:Texas Public Schools Are Teaching Creationism by Karunamon on Thursday January 16, 2014 @11:30AM (#7070318)
..how on earth do you figure creationism is a threat to an open society?
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Re:Texas Public Schools Are Teaching Creationism by xradionut on Thursday January 16, 2014 @11:32AM (#7070342)
It's a blatant falsehood.
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Re:Texas Public Schools Are Teaching Creationism by fennecfoxen on Thursday January 16, 2014 @11:42AM (#7070413)
Indeed! We must ensure that our harmonious society has no tolerance for falsehoods, only for the Truth. For the truth is... North Korea is best Korea.
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Re:Texas Public Schools Are Teaching Creationism by stephenhuey on Thursday January 16, 2014 @04:08PM (#7072559)
As my geologist friend pointed out, a century ago many laughed at the idea of plate tectonics, but it's now foundational to earth science. As commenters have pointed out here, we do ourselves a disservice if we do not allow the discussion of other ideas.
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Re:Texas Public Schools Are Teaching Creationism by Karunamon on Thursday January 16, 2014 @02:04PM (#7071711)
To some. Without getting too deeply into philosphy, I think you'll be very hard pressed to prove any kind of threat to anything from creationism itself.
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