(August 30, 2014 at 12:52 pm)Dolorian Wrote: I see this claim made rather often by Creationists / ID proponents when it is said that neither of those views should be taught as science in schools. The reason they say this is because they believe that their views are banned because "evolutionists" are afraid of honest debate.
I would be thrilled with a chapter in my child's biology book where on one side Ken Ham says "goddiit" and on the other side Richard Dawkins said "God-didn't-do-it, evolution did and here's how evolution did it." Then I would demand that in religion classes we atheists get a alternate countering voice and in history classes we atheists get a countering voice. Religion doesn't fare well when countered by reason as most of the religious world is not comprised of reality deniers such as our god pushers on this forum. Most theists are only theists because they've never heard any alternative.
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