X-Message-Number: 4602
Date: 03 Jul 95 14:46:02 EDT
From: Jim Davidson <>
Subject: Creation "science"

Peter Merel makes the point, "Slowly the more nonsensical religions die back.
Very few take Apollo or
the nymphs seriously any more - even the most ardent creationists don't
want those myths taught in schools."

Indeed they do not.  The creation "science" devotees who I knew as a youth
growing up in small-town Kansas were not interested in the Hindu legends of

Earth formation, nor any of the other ideas popular today with large segments of
the Earth's population, or popular long ago with Egyptians, Greeks, or Chinese.
Their interest was in having the "revealed word of God" as expressed in _The
Holy Bible_ (King James, if you please) taught in schools.


A few of the less mentally disturbed creationists I knew were willing to concede
that creation "science" should be taught on equal footing with evolutionary
biology.  When I, in my devilish manner, would point out that spontaneous
creation and "phlogiston" were already taught in many basic science classes as

poor explanations for certain facts, these otherwise reasonable folks would rush
back to the extreme.

Jim

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