alt.education

Danwood wrote:
>>> Creation either is science or it is not science. If it is
>>> science for one person, then it is science.
>>
>> Doesn't work that way. Religion is a personal trait of a believer in
>> or practitioner of that religion. Science is the product of a
>> methodology, and is not a product of personal belief.
> >
>This is exactly the point. Jo Blow's attitude as a fundamentalist.
>He says that evolution is a religion.

If it isn't his religion, then his saying so is politics, and not
reality.

>This contrary to what you say it doesn't make evolution into a religion.

And George Bush saying that there were WMD in Iraq didn't make that so
either. And equally political statement for equally political ends,
that was equally wrong.

>I quote you "If evolution is a religion to one person then evolution is
>a religion". And this makes sense to you?

Yes it does. But to the fundie, evolution is not a religion. The
typical fundie can presumably only speak to whether fundamentalist
Christianity is a religion, because their personal experience of
religion is the ONLY religion that they can testify to (Someone who
converted could give testimony about a former religion). Anything
else they say is ignorance, hearsay, or lies.

I did NOT say that "If evolution SAID TO BE a religion BY one person
then evolution is a religion".

The fundie can say whatever he wants about evolution, given the
constitutional right of free speech. But to the fundie, the only
religion is fundamentalist Christianity, because no person has two
religions at once.

lojbab