Thanks Slice
I was fairly confident that the IIS forum was chockers full of smart, tolerant, intelligent people who could calmly and rationaly discuss an issue without resorting to emotional responses to get their point across, even with potentially explosive matters
I have enjoyed every response so far - they all have very good points - isnt free speech a great thing!
Netwolf, beautiful and eloquent responses - I found them very interesting indeed, thanks for sharing an insight from a different perspective
Bert, we agree on a lot of things there, I love that ant's & TV ananolgy - that cracked me up
so true! and yes the CB's taught me a healthy respect for authority too, but i just missed out on latin - they had just stopped the mass being celebrated in Latin when i was very young - thank goodness
Eardrum, i think I have heard fear is the number one motivating driving emotion in Humans - you can find it at the root of many things - even in this debate!
David, I am in agreeance with you totally, well said mate
jjjnettie, agreed
I would of thought that the children of Christian parents would of received plenty of information on their religion from the Parents themselves and from the church they attend - why the need for the additional information? If we are going to be openminded why stop at the views of one particular small branch of the christian faith - we should maybe include the Aboriginals Dreamtime version of creation in Science classes as science as well? after all shouldnt their heritage be respected too?
I am just afraid that this was going to be some sort of indoctrination process - after all the jesuits used to say 'Give me a child till the age of seven and they would be a catholic forever" or something along those lines - ie brainwashing - I think you get plenty of opportunities in early adulthood and way beyond to examine all the possible paths in life and make better informed decisions as a result perhaps - why the rush?
Michael, scary hey! I notice cosmology was one of the subjects removed from the school curriculum in the 1999 case - if anyone thinks this subject is going to go away from the world - they had better think again - these people are on a mission - and they dont give up easy
yes dogma is no substitute for Science and never will be
Its extremely surprising to me in the 21st century that we are forced to defend things that i would of never of thought we would have to defend when i was younger - goes to show you cant take anything for granted in this great new progressive century - vigilance is a neccesary constant