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Old 24-August-2002, 03:43 PM
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On 2002-08-23 22:38, Jigsaw wrote:
The point of the news article in question is that the Cobb County School Board voted to have both creationism and evolution taught in their schools. Shouldn't we be happy that evolution's going to be taught, instead of boo-ing and hiss-ing about the creationism aspect?
Would you be happy if the Cobb County school board voted to teach both astronomy and astrology in the same course as equally valid scientific topics? And, whose version of creationism will they teach?

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P.S. Here's the exact same NYT article, but at a site that doesn't require registration.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...3/MN104288.DTL
Just to maintain 2012 USOOC parity:

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/nation/1547310
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