Re: paleonet Re: anti-evolutionism & Mountain Lion, Coyote, Parrot, and Crow

[Roy Plotnick <plotnick@xxxxxxx>]

It should be well known that each human group have a particular cosmogony and not only the Christians. With myths and other tales humans try to explain their origin, usually just in the centre of the (known) universe. Cultural anthropologists know a lot about that. If we claim a respect for the minority nationalities... Why not to discuss also in the schools the Navajo (just as another example) origin of the world? The forum should be ethics or religion courses, not the natural sciences courses.

Great.  Very well said.  I always thought it would be fun to prepare a scientific argument in favor of the Norse creation story: http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/creation.html

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