Science with an accent

September 26, 2006 by Dr. Mc.

To say we should have science with no religious position is like saying we should speak English without an accent. If you vocally form a word, you must accent it in some way. The truth is we all have an accent. You hear it in others, but not in yourself. The same is true with science. You can no more have a view of science without a religious position than you can speak English without an accent. You just may be unaware of the religious view you have, yet hear one in others whose view differs from your own. The bias in most textbooks is that everything must have a material cause; even why a thing exists must have a material cause. In other words, there is no God Who ever has, ever would, or ever could intervene in the affairs of the universe. How do you know that? It is based on assumptions (that you cannot prove or disprove) about the nature of God and the universe. That by definition is a religious view. The real question is therefore not wheter we should keep the textbooks religion-free, as some would argued. The real question is whether we should foster textbooks that posit only one religious position. To do so is not separation of church and state. It is the truest violation of that separtion—our state is promoting one religious view at the exclusion of all others

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