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You basically explained what I meant. Serves me right for posting while eating a sammich. Science itself doesn't care for morality, but there is more to religion then morality. There are aspects of religion that science can explain or target and it is those things that I was speaking to. More specifically, the historical events in the bible. Interestingly enough, there are scientific theories presented in support of the Biblical flood. Something about a comet hitting the Indian Ocean 10,000 years ago. It was in a recent Discover magazine.
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Well a comet hitting the Indian ocean would certainly cause flooding within a limited (though huge) area.. which is fine but certainly not the same as the claim of a global flood where the waters covered the land above the highest mountain and every animal except those on the ark died.
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People who take the Bible in a literal sense cannot possibly approach life in a reasoned fashion. The same can be said about the people who dismiss the Bible outright because of it's religious significance. I guess that's the point to my rambling.
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I guess I disagree somewhat.. I agree that even atheist cannot dismiss the Bible with respect to its impact on history and current culture, but I wouldn't say that an atheist who decides the Bible isn't relevant to his own life is living in an unreasonable fashion. There really isn't anything an atheist is missing by not partaking in religion other than the religion itself.
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As I mentioned earlier in the thread, ID should not be taught in a scientific context since it cannot possibly be based on scientific pricipals. But, at the same time, it would be a disservice to the goals of education to exclude it from the curriculim. A vast segment of society actively believe in aspects of ID, which makes it very important to present it in an educational context. I'd like to see all schools in North America adopt a Religion class or expand the Social Science curriculum.
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I agree, though I'd say they can talk about various creation myths. ID doesn't deserve any place in any classroom any more than the flying spaghetti monster does. Other than maybe to say that ID is something created by a group to try and integrate their ideas where they don't belong.