Posted by dorayme on 12/10/05 01:23

> From: mbstevens <NOXwebmasterx@xmbstevensx.com>

>> So, how bad is it over there and what sort of fundamentalism?
>
> A coalition of religious fundamentalisms.
>
>>
> The clearest symptom is that
> 'intelligent design'
> (creationism with a pipe, but still clearly metaphysics)
> has been added to the middle and high school biology texts in several
> states.
>
> I've also gone through the online site of some university philosophy
> departments, and found them starting to offer more metaphysical bunkum
> instead of stressing more sensible course work like symbolic logics and
> philosophy of mathematics.
>
> The situation is very, very sad. I feel like I've been sent back to the
> 1950s in a time warp. Like an ancient Roman at the sunset that began
> the Dark Ages.


Yes, I see. There are always these pressures in some of the US
states and it is getting worse eh? It is more a fear (rather
than a big reality) here in Australia. There is a federal
government that needs to keep in good with a religious party
that has gained strength lately and a parliamentary seat or
two... Our education minister recently said ID might be ok to be
taught alongside evolution etc, he was absolutely howled down on
this and the Govt have pulled in their heads a bit since. God
help us from those who would use him to uselessly fill in gaps.


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dorayme

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