Chris L Peterson wrote:

I hope my kids never have a science teacher who thinks that way. When
kids in my classes bring up creationism, I tell them their beliefs
aren't supported by evidence. Period. There is no room for "cultural
sensitivity" in science. You teach the theories, you teach what evidence
allows us to place a certain level of confidence in those theories, when
there is more than one major theory you teach them all. If any of those
theories conflict with non-scientific beliefs held by some students,
tough. It's science class.

That's one way to answer that question. Another way is "This might be a
good time to pause and tell you about a really amazing thing called
'the scientific method,' which is the way in which scientists..." My
personal experience tells me that curt dismissal is not a good weapon
in the battle for kids' hearts and minds.

I personally find Christianity a deeply offensive and dangerous belief
system. But in a religious studies class, I'm not offended by what is
taught; that's the point of the class. I can study it without believing
there is any truth. Similarly, there is no reason for anybody to be
offended by what is taught in science, whether they choose to believe it
or not.

Do you also find astronautics an adulterous and murderous science?

It pains me to say this -- truly -- but you have beaten your old record
for pedantry, rudeness, smugness, condescension, and wrongness -- and
quite a record it was! It is ironic that one who condemns religion at
every opportunity so frequently speaks /ex/ /cathedra/ in his posts.
This is not the only subject on which you have written in this forum
without displaying a shred of knowledge about the matter, if you catch
my drift.

Your penchant for jumping into so many threads (is there anyone here
who replies in more threads than you do?) and framing your replies as
condescending pronouncements of Irrefutable Truth does nothing to
further the aims of this group as I understand them. I can no longer
post a legitimate technical question on my amateur astronomy pursuit in
any forum in which I know you are a participant (this forum or any of
several Yahoo groups) because I know that you will reply and I know
/how/ you will reply -- with a condescending, dogmatic, and Irrefutable
Pronouncement -- while I am seeking a variety of answers based on
others' experience with the equipment that I am using and/or the
technique that I am trying to master. If I had wanted Irrefutable
Truth, free of doctrinal error, I might have simply asked Daniel J.
Min.

Davoud

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