Comments on: Christians suing UC over admission standards http://atheists.org/blog/2008/04/03/christians_suing_uc_over_admission_stand A Blog of Atheist Thought Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:05:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rusty Shackleford http://atheists.org/blog/2008/04/03/christians_suing_uc_over_admission_stand/comment-page-1#comment-80296 Rusty Shackleford Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-80296 I don't think California should shut the doors of its universities to those who have learned only myth, SO LONG AS the students are willing to catch up to the other students and learn real science. If they aren't, then let them flunk out.<br /> <br /> I don’t think California should shut the doors of its universities to those who have learned only myth, SO LONG AS the students are willing to catch up to the other students and learn real science. If they aren’t, then let them flunk out.

]]> By: TXatheist http://atheists.org/blog/2008/04/03/christians_suing_uc_over_admission_stand/comment-page-1#comment-80297 TXatheist Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-80297 I remember hearing about this and I don't think they have a case(just imo) because the academic standards must be fulfilled to get into biology 101. If I remember right they can be admitted but the creation science class they took in high school won't count toward a science credit. I remember hearing about this and I don’t think they have a case(just imo) because the academic standards must be fulfilled to get into biology 101. If I remember right they can be admitted but the creation science class they took in high school won’t count toward a science credit.

]]> By: UnGodly http://atheists.org/blog/2008/04/03/christians_suing_uc_over_admission_stand/comment-page-1#comment-80298 UnGodly Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-80298 > Would it be hyperbole to say that our entire educational <br /> > system is on trial for its life?<br /> <br /> Yes > Would it be hyperbole to say that our entire educational
> system is on trial for its life?

Yes

]]> By: pnuhn@gampac.org http://atheists.org/blog/2008/04/03/christians_suing_uc_over_admission_stand/comment-page-1#comment-80300 pnuhn@gampac.org Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-80300 care to elaborate UnG? care to elaborate UnG?

]]> By: DVanWechel http://atheists.org/blog/2008/04/03/christians_suing_uc_over_admission_stand/comment-page-1#comment-80305 DVanWechel Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-80305 I'm really sick of the religious preying on America's sense of fairness when it comes to science education.<br /> <br /> <blockquote>"They're violating the right of speech and free exercise of religion to those schools when they tell them ... that if they teach [science] from any biblical worldview, it's unacceptable," Tyler explains. And it is unacceptable, he says,</blockquote> Of course masking mythology as science is unacceptable. If your religious version of science can't meet basic accepted scientific principals, then it's not science. This isn?t about religious freedom, as the AFF would have Americans believe. It?s about, again, the religious trying to force scientific acceptance of their mythology.<br /> <br /> I say, put up or shut up. You want your mythology to be taught in America?s public universities as fact, then put your mythology up for scrutiny by the scientific community. Oh wait, you can?t because it?s nothing more than myth ? which offers nothing in the way of scientific discovery. It?s worse than if it could be proven false ? at least that would offer something. I’m really sick of the religious preying on America’s sense of fairness when it comes to science education.

“They’re violating the right of speech and free exercise of religion to those schools when they tell them … that if they teach [science] from any biblical worldview, it’s unacceptable,” Tyler explains. And it is unacceptable, he says,

Of course masking mythology as science is unacceptable. If your religious version of science can’t meet basic accepted scientific principals, then it’s not science. This isn?t about religious freedom, as the AFF would have Americans believe. It?s about, again, the religious trying to force scientific acceptance of their mythology.

I say, put up or shut up. You want your mythology to be taught in America?s public universities as fact, then put your mythology up for scrutiny by the scientific community. Oh wait, you can?t because it?s nothing more than myth ? which offers nothing in the way of scientific discovery. It?s worse than if it could be proven false ? at least that would offer something.

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