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Originally Posted by Hanni
I think the real issue to whether discrediting the bible is the right approach comes from a growing "creation science" movement, mostly in the US.
While "creation science" is laughable to many the fact remains that this movement is growing and trying to push itself into public schools in the US under the guise that kids should be taught all view points.
Atheists feel that these people are trying to force their beliefs into public schools, (with the next step into government) where religion should have no place.
So it boils down to a movement claiming to be scientifically based. The only response is to take a scientific and rational approach in discrediting their cause.
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I am pretty sure that science is winning this war hands down though?? While creationists and their intelligent design cousins stir up much debate in the media, school boards and universities know where they stand on the issue and aren't straying away as much as people think... yes, even in the heavily Christian south. If parents wish to send their children to a private school that presents an alternate science, then so be it- no amount of atheist rhetoric is going to change their minds.
To put it another way, it seems to me that atheists are winning more often than they are losing- while the moral majority still has a voice in the US, the days of Christian values controlling the political and social sphere is over- which is why i think non-believers should just shut up and let them have their religion- I honestly do not see things returning to a place where atheists and pluralists will be legitimately threatened.