Re: Public Nudity: Innocent or Sin?

Anna <[email protected]> wrote in
news:ebbd2b84-c8d5-48a5-afb1-35f798ffa25e@r15g2000prh.googlegroups.com: 

>> It is the government, such as schools, that is restricted from
>> promoting one set of beliefs over another, a fact nudists need to
>> use. Most citizens in the USA are a member of one religion or
>> another. None is dominate except locally, so these all end up as
>> local battles. 
> 
> Is it really that important, at a High School level at least, to teach
> something that is so controversial?

That some people might fervently believe that 2+2=5 does not make
arithmetic controversial. 

Evolution is science. Creation, and its deriviatives are religion. We
teach science in public schools and not religion. This is not
complicated. 

> 
> Let people learn about it in a college class, or perhaps they will see
> it in a documentary.
> 
> Nether evolution nor intelligent design is that important to everyday
> life to be forced down people's throat.

But critical thinking skills are. 

Teaching science means teaching what we have learned from it. Science
does not claim to offer absolute truth (that's religion's job).
Information gleaned from science is just that, the information we have
gleaned to date, subject to refinement as we learn more. 

Understanding evolution and understanding how we came to know what we
know about it is important to understanding science and the world around
us in general. 

> 
> But of course the Left have to control everything don't they.  And
> yeah, this is the fault of the Left as promotion of "intelligent
> design" was just a reaction to them forcing down evolution in a public
> school setting.

Nobody is forcing anything. Science is being taught. That's it.

Lane