[bugsbunny04]

</span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (libertyminded,)

A little aside for Fogus and BugsBunny if you're still active on this thread.

If you're so convinced evolution is bogus and that it's purveyors in the public school system are so wrong then my questions to you are:

1) Which of the 2-3000 creation stories would you like taught in SCIENCE class?

2) Do you really think that scientists are involved in some sort of effort to deliberately destroy or discredit religion? If so, why would they do this? (and don't give me that "you just don't want to be accountable to a higher power" crap because the secular folks retort; "you just can't accept that you won't live forever" is a perfect counter arguement)

Thanks for your eyes and brains,
~Aarel<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>

Hey doc, the answer to #1 is this: I have no problem with the current fossil record. What should be taught is that in such and such year, such and such species appeared. It should be left to the students to decide based on there faith (or lack of) to decide whether said species appeared during said period because it evloved from something else or because God, Yaweh, Allah, Budah, Alpha+Omega, The great "I am" or whatever you want call your supreme being created it. It should be mentioned by the teacher that scientists (like us) cannot agree on which is the case. It should be taught with everything appearing in the right order, so that if they want to believe evolution, they are not being sabotaged from doing so. But it should also be mentioned that if Genesis is translated correctly and directly to english from the old hebrew, it also more or less agrees with the fossil record.

As for wuestion #2, the short answer is no. I think what we have here is groups of perfectly reasonable scientists, with perfectly logical reasoning, that come to differing conclusions based on the same evidence. There is nothing wrong with that, because since the evidence is inconclusive, it is left to the individual scientist to draw an estimated conclusion. Darwin drew his. I drew mine.