January 16, 2005
Evolution Stickers
JMoore at JurisPundit is critical of the District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, declared that evolution stickers placed in textbooks by a public school board are unconstitutional.
Here's the problem with Cooper's argument: the belief the school board is advancing is secular. Whether evolution is a theory or a fact is not a religious question. Although it may have some indirect effect on religion, the effect is so attenuated to not be of concern. The fact that a secular belief is held by a non-secular group does not make it the advancement of religion.Actually, while I don't personally think much of the antievolutionist position myself, it seems to me that Cooper is doing exactly what he is suggesting the school board did. What are the motivations of those that brough suit against the school board? This is not disclosed in the post. Are those motivations religious? Are the plaintiffs athetists? For surely atheism, like theism, is a religous belief--it's a belief system that draws conclusions about the existence of a supernatural creator of the universe... or the lack thereof.
By finding against the antievolutionists without questioning the religious motivations of the evolutionists, Cooper seems to have "improperly entangled [himself] with religion by appearing to take a position."
Posted by David Gaw in Religion and Philosophy at January 16, 2005 06:32 PM
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