Re: paleonet anti-evolutionism & a flat earth

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If holding a scientific view conflicts with any aspect of a religion, 
then of course, depending on the bases of any given religion, it could 
be religious discrimination to require that astronomers not have an 
earth-centered view of the universe or that Flat Earth Society members 
have to give up their basic tenet to succeed in geography.

One can conceive of a huge range of off-the-wall dogmatic beliefs that 
can be points of conflict between science and religion.  It is just 
that there are rather strident reactionary or unenlightened groups of a 
particular religion who happen to be getting an ever-tightening grasp 
on many aspects of society -- and, apparently, government -- in the US 
at present, and creationism happens to be one of their treasured tenets.

Ken McKinney

Steve Hageman wrote:

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>Would it be "... religious discrimination, and the very antithesis of 
>academic freedom,"  for astronomy professors to require their students 
to
>abandon an earth-centered view of the Solar system?  or a geography
>professors to ask their graduates to understand the theory of a 
spherical
>earth?
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>Dr. Steven J. Hageman              HagemanSJ@appstate.edu
>Assistant Professor                ph. (828)-262-6609
>Department of Geology              fax.(828)-262-6503
>Appalachian State University
>Boone, North Carolina  28608
>USA                    http://www.appstate.edu/~hagemansj
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Frank K. (Ken) McKinney
Department of Geology
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608 USA
fax:  828-262-6503