] I, for one, think the stickers are silly, but mostly harmless. ] It is a theory. It's a really fucking good one and ] probably true, but I don't think it harms all that much. ] Possibly it causes less harm than the expenditure of money to ] defend against the lawsuit. Likewise, I'm not sure I agree ] with the camp that the church and state doctrine is violated ] every time anything secular touches on matters of faith. I ] think the far left can take this fight too far, honestly. The sticker is not a big deal, if the sticker is applied evenly to all scientific theories. Science has always been about the direction the balance of the evidence exists for, and in this case that'e evolution. If, however, you have this sticker that says evolution is just a theory and not a fact (which is completely accurate) for evolution, but not for say string theory then it seems to me that one might come to the conclusion that the science supporting string theory is a lot more solid than the science supporting evolution, because of the existance of the sticker. This, I think, is quite harmful. So apply the sticker equally, or don't apply it at all. I don't think you can call the people concerned with seperation of church and state leftists universally. Non-authoritarians would probably be a better description, as many libertarians who tend to be on the right on most issues are opposed to this sort of stuff. One can even make a very sound argument that the aclu is the best friend the church ever had, in terms of protecting it from the corrupting influences of government. RE: DeKalb County Schools must remove evolution stickers... |