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Originally posted by northernflame@Nov 9 2004, 06:53 PM
"ATLANTA - School officials in suburban Cobb County go to court Monday to defend themselves against a lawsuit accusing the district of promoting religion by requiring that science textbooks warn students evolution is “a theory, not a fact.”"
As this Scientific American article points out, evolution is a theory that is supported by factual evidence:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID...E49809EC588EEDF
Why do creationists seem so hell bent on the idea of having creationsim treated like a science? Where is their 'faith?'. 
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Admitting the fact of evolution means losing "hand," in the words of George Costanza, losing control of thought.
If evolution is conceded, interpretation of faith would have to be adjusted to fit the facts and the facts are getting so far out there that faith can't really adjust much more.
A few years ago I think, the Catholic Church seemed to be on the verge of conceding life or evidence of it might be found on Mars.
It is concievable in your lifetime that evidence of planets similar to earth, potentially life bearing, might be found.
Where does a document or collection of documents written 2000 years ago on Earth fit into that?
I'm not a skeptic about evolution. I'm a skeptic about the Bible.
Cowperson