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Originally Posted by MSD
If your religion differs from the scientific consensus on a well-researched and understood fact, your religion is wrong.
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This was the point of the first part of my second post, when a school says exactly what I've quoted here, a very strong case can - and likely will (if it has not already) - be made that it is a violation of separation or, if not separation, at the very least 'freedom of religion'.
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Originally Posted by dippin
Second of all, even in the last sense it can only be seen as a breach of the separation if you consider science to be structurally the same as religion, so that a "science" religion is being promoted. But to accept that world view would entangle accepting a sort of radical relativism that would simply freeze any and all inquiries.
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Right, but people proposing this don't care if it stops all inquiry, it prevents science from discrediting religious truth in schools, which, means be damned, is their goal. The argument works because you force politicians between a rock an a hard place. As a state elected official you cannot say that relativism is bunk, and science is the only road to truth or you will find yourself on the fast track to unemployment because you just lost the religious vote. You can't go the other route either and put yourself totally in the lot who are for 'subjective truth' because you'll be perceived as loony. So you have to ignore the issue altogether and simply omit anything controversial. Thus the state standard for describing the age of the universe disappears.