LittleNipper
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It is fallacious to say evolutionists attack creationists, and leave it at that. It is actually creationists who have been attacking and trying to deface and debunk science since its inception. Any explanations that rivaled the churches were banished. It seems as if theists are programmed to believe they are the victims When in fact, they are the insecure aggressors.
Very true.
Its also an effort on the part of creationists to conjoin church and state in violation of the First Amendment, an attempt to codify Christian dogma into secular laws. Its perfectly appropriate for Americans to defend their religious freedoms when attacked by creationists and others on the radical Christian right.
Proof of creationists desire to conjoin church and state is found in the case of Edwards v. Aguillard (1987), where the Supreme Court ruled that creationism was indeed religion, that its being taught in Louisiana public schools was in violation of the Establishment Clause, and where the laws intent was to only foster religious practice, not to further a legitimate secular purpose.
Education is above the secular and the religious, or it counts for nothing of any depth The Removal of prayer & Bible reading from public school was not a unanimous decission. Propaganda is propaganda secular or not. The truth that sets students free is arrived at through open discussion and investigation and not where governmental exclusion reigns. Besides, the government gains control where the citizens are kept in the dark...