wrs@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Walter Smith) (12/30/84)
In response to the person who wanted more discussion of the suitability of
Creationism for the *science* [not Comparative Religions] classroom, here's a
fundamental problem to which I have never heard a Creationist response.
How does one teach Creationism as science when it contradicts so much of the
other curriculum? Fine, the universe was created a few thousand years ago.
So much for astronomy (stellar evolution, Hubble's law, etc... What's that
I heard about stellar creationism? :-) Where did the elements heavier than
Hydrogen come from? Why do all these objects (proto-stars, red giants,
white dwarfs, etc.) seem to be various stages of the same process?), geology
(so kids, this moon rock is two billion years old...), physics (see the
ongoing WHAT HAPPENED TO THE WATER debate), common sense (read almost any
Creationist pamphlet), and on, and on...
Sorry I don't have more examples, but I'm too tired right now to
write any more.
What a fun newsgroup!
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Walter Smith, CS undergraduate, Carnegie-Mellon University
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