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filthy
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Posted - 12/14/2006 :  05:30:33  Show Profile Send filthy a Private Message
It is some small comfort to know that we do not have the sole franchise on noisey, creationist lunacy. The Russians, it seems, have their share.
quote:
Russia Teen Sues Over Evolution Teaching

The Associated Press
Wednesday, December 13, 2006; 9:36 PM



ST. PETERSBURG, Russia -- A Russian court on Wednesday held hearings in an unprecedented lawsuit brought by a 15-year-old student who says being taught the theory of evolution in school violates her rights and insults her religious beliefs.

Maria Shreiber sued the St. Petersburg city education committee, claiming the 10th-grade biology textbook used at the Cervantes Gymnasium was offensive to believers and that teachers should offer an alternative to Darwin's famous theory.


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HalfMooner
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Posted - 12/14/2006 :  05:48:45   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message
Crikey. Sort of like the Space Race of the 50's and 60's, but in biology, and in the reverse direction.


Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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beskeptigal
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Posted - 12/15/2006 :  21:36:42   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send beskeptigal a Private Message
Actually it shows how widespread the Evangelical movement is. Abortion banning in Nicaragua, Creation science in Russia,... frightening if you ask me. Whatever happened to just plain missionaries ruining native cultures in Africa and New Guinea?

Edited by - beskeptigal on 12/15/2006 21:37:01
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pleco
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Posted - 12/16/2006 :  08:27:14   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit pleco's Homepage Send pleco a Private Message
There are no more native cultures to ruin, at least until our alien overlords decide to plop down.

by Filthy
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marfknox
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Posted - 12/16/2006 :  10:53:38   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit marfknox's Homepage  Send marfknox an AOL message Send marfknox a Private Message
beskeptical wrote:
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Whatever happened to just plain missionaries ruining native cultures in Africa and New Guinea?
Funny you say that because I was just thinking as I was reading this discussion that the outcries of discrimination sound a lot like native peoples with their own religious myths, who are resist and refuse to accept modern scientific views of nature and the universe. We don't really hear them anymore because few of those ideas survive and the ones which do survive tend to flourish only in isolated communities, such as on Indian reservations in America, native villages in middle and South America, or in the Outback of Australia. For conservative Christians to be crying out in this way convinces me that they are truly of minority status. Even though Christians as a whole are the majority in the Western world, the majority is still (small "h") humanistic Christians, leaving fundies as a religious minority. And minorities tend to be persecuted at worst, and marginalized at best.

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marfknox
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Posted - 12/16/2006 :  10:56:27   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit marfknox's Homepage  Send marfknox an AOL message Send marfknox a Private Message
Oh, just to clarify, I do not mean to imply that good science in the classroom should be compromised in any way to accomodate minority religious beliefs. If old myths cannot withstand the test of more convincing modern ideas, they will and should fade away as the culture at large changes.

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