"Steven J." <steven_j@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Feb 9, 4:47 pm, Sound of Trumpet <soundoftrum...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
> http://darwinianfundamentalism.blogspot.com/2007/10/swedish-governmen...
>
> Thursday, October 18, 2007
>
> Swedish Government Bans ID from Swedish Christian Schools
>
What is Christian education coming to, when teachers are prevented
from lying to students?
>
> Looks like freedom of religion, freedom of thought and academic
> freedom are all taking a hit in Sweden:
>
ID isn't about "thought," unless you count thinking about how to
disguise religious dogma as science.
I just lost some respect for your opinions here. ID as well as Evolution
is
'thought'. Unless you are the thought police and have now decided what is
and is not fit to be called thought.
>
> The Swedish government is to crack down on the role religion plays in
> independent faith schools. The new rules will include a ban on biology
> teachers teaching creationism or 'intelligent design' alongside
> evolution.
>
> "Pupils must be protected from all forms of fundamentalism," said
> Education Minister Jan Björklund to Dagens Nyheter.
>
> "All forms of fundamentalism" except Darwinian Fundamentalism, that
> is. I wonder if information about the Cambrian fossils was banned too.
>
Apparently, information about PRE-Cambrian fossils has been banned,
since so few antievolutionists seem to know they exist.
>
> Of course, the US Supreme Court would find this a violation of the
> First Amendment if it happened here. But alas, it is Sweden.
>
It's hard to say what the SCOTUS might say about this issue, if it
came up here. On the one hand, private religious schools
traditionally are allowed very considerable latitude in teaching. On
the other, SCOTUS has never denied states the right to require that
children receive schooling or to regulate that schooling (e.g. to make
sure that certain subjects are covered). It is at least conceivable
that the Court would find it constitutional to require that private
schools teach science in science cl*****. But given the controversy
over teaching science even in public school science cl*****, I doubt
any legislature is eager to walk into that thicket.
Considering the Bill Of Rights says "and endowed by their CREATOR"....
-- Steven J.
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