Re: Public Nudity: Innocent or Sin?

Bert Clanton <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]: 

> On Mar 4, 10:23 am, Anna <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Mar 4, 10:12 am, Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > Anna <[email protected]> wrote in news:b92429e4-83c1-4ae0-87b4-
>> > [email protected]:
>>
>> > > On Mar 4, 8:58 am, Lane <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > >> Nobody is forcing anything. Science is being taught. That's it.
>>
>> > > You are forcing down your beliefs regarding the origin of our
>> > > species down people's throats.
>>
>> > I have no such beliefs. There is physical evidence and a very good
>> > theory that interprest that evidence. I don't believe anything
>> > beyond that.
>>
>> Well many people don't believe that. So you are forcing that belief
>> down people's throats instead of allowing people the choice of
>> learning about it.
>>
>> > > Since it is so controversial let it be taught elsewhere as
>> > > opposed to public government schools.
>>
>> > It is not controversial. That a minority of people deny reality
>> > does no 
> t
>> > make reality controversial.
>>
>> It is far from a small minority.  Look if there is no one in the
>> school district with a problem with it then yeah go ahead teach it.
>> Otherwise they can wait until they get to college if they want to
>> learn about it.
> 
> I have just as much right to try to control what is taught in public
> schools as Anna does. The almost total consensus about evolution among
> biological scientists convinces me that evolution is probably a fact--
> just as the almost total consensus among historians that the Holocaust
> actually occurred convinces me that the Holocaust actually occurred.
> So I don't want the content of teaching in biology or in history to be
> decided by popular vote. Frankly, I want such  questions  of
> curriculum decided by the consensus of people whose profession is to
> investigate such questions, rather than by people who are completely
> ignorant about biological science or history.

Well put.

Lane