Re: [Phys-l] Intelligent designists fight back

[Stefan Jeglinski <jeglin@4pi.com>]

> There is no
> need for conflict between us until or unless you decide it's your right
> and/or duty to "correct" me and/or my children.  That would be, and is,
> totally unnecessary, and it would be presumptuous of you to take it upon
> yourself to do so.

I'd like your take on the following. One of the issues seems to be 
that one's children are always one's children. That is, they grow up, 
and go to places like college, where they get exposed, in a serious 
way, to "foreign" concepts, esp evolution. In principle, parents 
should not fear their children going through this process, but many 
do anyway, and in fact are terrified of it, and hence try to go out 
of the boundaries you have described, politically, to influence 
institutions, and by extension, society, to sway others to what 
amounts to their personal religious views.

How do you personally resolve this, having made the comment about who 
has the right/duty to instruct ("correct") your children? And does 
your personal resolution of this quandary also fit your beliefs about 
how society should deal with "enforcing" lower education?

My question is an academic one, despite its personal nature. You just 
happen to be my current vehicle of enlightenment, and seem to take a 
mostly level-headed view of things :-)


Stefan Jeglinski