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it. Just read it.
And I thought we were falling behind already, in terms of education, technical prowess... what's it going to be like when our kids basically can't do any of the sciences, because they just don't believe in them, because they contradict the Sacred Word?
At the height of the Muslim empire, while Europe was in the deepest murk of the Dark Ages, Islamic mathematicians and scientists were making great strides. Their religious faith didn't keep them from being curious about the world around them, or in engaging in careful study of that world. Faith and knowledge aren't supposed to be enemies.
How do we get our sanity back, as a country, before it's too late?
This past December, Republican strategist Jack Burkman appeared on MSNBC's "Scarborough Country" to back creationism in terms of populist democracy. "Why should the state and the federal government have a monopoly on defining what constitutes science?" he asked. "I see no problem with presenting a creationist view in the schools, given that 70 percent of Americans want that. The law should reflect democratic desires. It should reflect public desires."These people are awful, and they are taking over the country.
Of course, public desires don't determine the physical facts of the world. "The best argument that the creationists have got is that it's only fair to teach both sides," Matzke said. "The problem with that argument is that science is not a democracy and a lot of times there aren't two correct sides. There are people who believe that the sun goes around the earth. They're called geocentrists. That doesn't mean we should teach that."
And I thought we were falling behind already, in terms of education, technical prowess... what's it going to be like when our kids basically can't do any of the sciences, because they just don't believe in them, because they contradict the Sacred Word?
At the height of the Muslim empire, while Europe was in the deepest murk of the Dark Ages, Islamic mathematicians and scientists were making great strides. Their religious faith didn't keep them from being curious about the world around them, or in engaging in careful study of that world. Faith and knowledge aren't supposed to be enemies.
How do we get our sanity back, as a country, before it's too late?
