Originally Posted by LittleNipper Public schools should not be secular. Public schools should be educationally neutral. So if there is history to be gleaned from the Bible, it should be gleaned. If students are interested in looking for GOD, they should be encouraged and not ignored. None of this is beside the original subject's point; however, it is your intention to try and make it appear that way....
Public schools ARE secular,... (look when the map doesn't match the ground, it is the MAP that is wrong; NOT the ground,...)
Public schools ARE secular, and because of the separation of church and state, they most certainly "should" be.
As for neutrality, they ARE that too, they neither confirm nor deny the existence of God; leaving that up to the individual student (and their partents) to work out for themselves. The public schools (i.e. the state) is not here to teach or instil any belief in religion, one way or the other. They ARE neutral.
As for use of the Bible as a history book,... see what happens when you follow this sequence of logic:
Q: Who wrote the Bible?
A: Various men of antiquity.
Q: How did they know what to write?
A: God told them.
Q: So then this is the "History according to God"!?...
When the history of the Bible can be verified by other sources as being accurate, then that history doesn't need to be taught as "from the Bible", but it can be noted that the Bible also mentioned this point, with reference to the Bible as an ORAL TRADITION kind of history -- that's the limit of it in a public school I'd thing.
But since most of Western Civ is NOT covered in the Bible, virtually nothing of the classics, and zilch about the renaisance,... I fail to see how it would help a public school history class? Not in the way such classes are meant to educate and prepare students for the world around them or college.
And if students are interested in pursuing God, then their PARENTS should be doing the encouraging; NOT a school text or lesson plan. Even an individual teacher can offer such encouragement, OUTSIDE of the lesson, as an expression of their personal opinion.
As for my "intentions" to make this "seem" any way other than to point out how you have spent the entire DAY avoiding giving an answer for MORE information about a point that YOU RAISED!... that kind of fallacious argument is simply called a
Lie.
So come on, quit foolin around. Whadaya got to share (with respect to the original question about "reputable scientists")?
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