Part of a series of re-issues of my most-popular online postings. This one about the deep illogic underlying the claims by the fundamentalist community that they "just want students to be exposed to all sides and make up their own minds."
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THERE IS RICH IRONY in how the present battle over Creationism v. Darwinism has taken shape, and especially how this round differs from previous episodes.
An excellent commentary by one of my favorite authors on the Pandora's Box that (not so) Intelligent Designers introduced via their primary argument, that alternatives to Evolution deserve equal time. They sidestep the entire question of appropriateness and appeal to people's sense of fairness - without really believing in even that principle themselves since they fail to introduce non-Judeo Christian creations stories, or creation variants that don't require a single divine entity.
Posted on January 24, 2013
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