Reply #98: It's political, and its religious. Science is just in the way. [View All]

[fjc]

You have adequately demonstrated that this is really about theology, and therefore about politics, more than it is about science. If it were just about science, there would be no issue to discuss. Those who seek to undermine the teaching of evolution do so on theological grounds. They're method of advancing their agenda here is political, since they have learned that they cannot openly argue for this agenda on the basis of their theological commitments. Science, and free intellectual inquiry, are the victims here, and that makes it a very important matter. While it may be true, as you say, though some here dispute it, that the science can be taught in other terms, that is not at all relevant. What IS relevant and most important is the attack here on a body of ideas that undergird the biological sciences because they are regarded as antithetical to their version of Christian theology. All people who like Jefferson believed in the freedom of the mind should be appalled at this move, particularly as it is served up in terms of the very freedoms they actually oppose.