---- John Barimo <[email protected]> wrote: >stuff deleted ............ > I once attended > a Catholic secondary school where evolution was taught by a priest who > conveyed that a creator (god) was the spark that started life and > evolution was the means of adaptation, so no apparent conflict there,
Maybe no conflict in the priest's mind. However, he was conveying in a science course a religious belief. Should he have stated it as such, with the caution that though he believes it that does not make it real, and no one else has to believe it, I would be ok with that. Being in a position of authority and looked to as the expert by adolescents places secondary teachers in a particularly shaky (and dangerous) position. Given that the school was a religious, private one, not a public one, he was legal, but maybe questionable in an ethics sense. Just my thoughts, and maybe not yours. I'm ok with that. David McNeely
