Teach the controversy, uh-huh

[mahnmut]

People's willful attempts to keep themselves ignorant has never stopped boggling me.

Automatically filling the blank spots that still remain here and there in our knowledge about many things - with a deity of some sorts - reminds me of the fairy tales we often tell our very young kids whenever they ask "daddy, where did I come from?" Then we start talking about bees and birds and everything is all right. Funny, many people choose to remain in eternal childhood forever. It would've remained just funny-full-stop, unless entire groups of those eventually started pushing their ignorant agenda onto the rest of society and turn this into a political issue, now that's where things turn ugly.

Teach the controversy is a nice way to move the goalposts of free speech into a slippery area. By the same logic, why not teach Astrology in class? Many people trust it, don't they?

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That's the one, yes:

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

Not to mention that as far as Biblical inerrancy is concerned there's another issue that people seldom bring up that's hard for the inerrantists to fudge: the Bible can't even keep the 12 tribes of Israel straight from list to list. The theology only attempts to fudge that and give a meaning to the reality that the Bible was mixed together haphazardly and edited poorly afterward.