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The atheist and the creationist: Can't they just get along?

My friend is considering teaching "young earth" creationism in his school, and I think I'm going to vomit.
By Cary Tennis

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  • Wednesday, May 14, 2008 08:48 PM

    To ShawnWM

    If I say that Moby Dick is the greatest work of American fiction, you may disagree, put forward The Sound and the Fury and then we might calmly and logically discuss our difference of opinion. Because that's what they are, opinions. If however, I say that smoking cigarettes is bad for you, and someone else says that they're perfectly safe, I should not STFU and listen politely, because they're demonstratably wrong. That's what I mean when I say that post-modernist relativism is a disease affecting our society. Sometimes "opinions" are just stupidity, and it is sometimes necessary to fight against it. This is one such case.

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