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Subject: Extremism versus credulity

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Ed Harris (Venezia)

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Date Posted: 15:13:27 11/21/04 Sun
In reply to: Ian (Australia) 's message, "Depends on what you mean by "educated", I guess" on 15:06:45 11/21/04 Sun

I think the problem here is not our definitions of "educated" but our definition of "extremism". For example, those quaint Bible Bashers in Tenessee can refuse to teach "The Origin of Species" as the only theory about the emergence of life, on the grounds that the old Bible is another Theory... but they are only extremists when they insist that others accept the same barmy thing and bash them over the head with heavy objects when they refuse to do so. Similarly, your brother may accept the Biblical creation myth, but, unless he runs amok in the middle of Sydney with a Bible in one hand and a battle-axe in the other rather than quietly getting on with religion is his own way and in his own drawing room, then he can't be an extemist, in which case the business about education surely doesn't apply.

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Author: Ian (Australia) [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 15:17:06 11/21/04 Sun Since he is not known to have actually decapitated any of his interlocutors, I suppose I must accept that he is merely a private fanatic who funds the teaching of myths in science classes, rather than a true extremist. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]