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Posted by Wesley R. Elsberry on December 6, 2004 09:17 PM
A searing op-ed in the York Dispatch by Paul Gross and Barbara Forrest leaves no doubt about what the Dover School Board has accomplished. Give it a read…
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Posted by Bob Maurus on December 7, 2004 05:49 AM (e) (s)
Thanks for the post, Wesley. Gross hits the mark perfectly.
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Posted by Great White Wonder on December 7, 2004 01:48 PM (e) (s)
What a great article. That’s the article that should have been in the SF Chronicle last week.
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Posted by Russell on December 8, 2004 01:14 PM (e) (s)
From the Gross & Forrest op-ed piece:
[intelligent design arguments] are also unnecessary to any reasonable form of religious belief, Christian or otherwise.
There’s the nub of the issue. What do you suppose are the chances we’ll come to any consensus on which forms of religious belief are “reasonable” any time in the next, say, five millennia or so?
Here’s my proposal: any claim about physical reality is out of bounds for religion.
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Posted by freelunch on December 6, 2004 10:47 PM (e) (s)
From Gross and Forrest’s article: “Winning this one might mean joy in Dover, but it won’t win the school board a place in any hall of fame.”
Sure it will, it’ll be in the same hall of fame that Dayton, Tennessee is in.