tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post8871747228871624280..comments2024-03-27T14:50:47.345-04:00Comments on <center>Sandwalk</center>: Rationalism vs Superstition: More than just Evolution vs CreationismLarry Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05756598746605455848noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-53792897634529095872009-07-16T17:33:02.989-04:002009-07-16T17:33:02.989-04:00Is it okay to teach Christianity in history classe...<i>Is it okay to teach Christianity in history classes as long as it's kept out of science classes?<br /><br />I wonder if the accommodationists see the potential problem with their position? They are happy to ally with theists as long as those theists accept science—or at least claim to accept science. But that's not all there is to the conflict between the religious and the non-religious.</i><br /><br />When have "accommodationists" argued in support of the theocrats who want "Christian nation" ideas in history class? Better yet, can you name any prominent theistic evolutionists who are Dominionsists? If there are religious people with progressive views toward acceptance of science but hardcore fundamentalist views about American history (or vice versa!), I don't know of them.James Fnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-43296357853939746402009-07-16T01:51:16.900-04:002009-07-16T01:51:16.900-04:00Ugh... more crap that could be avoided if we just ...Ugh... more crap that could be avoided if we just mandated a decent philosophy course in America...<br /><br />But then maybe as an out of work philosophy major I have some bias on that position >.<Dawshosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11006547516337749290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-46177138981326868422009-07-15T17:16:05.839-04:002009-07-15T17:16:05.839-04:00Let's imagine for a moment that the conservati...<i>Let's imagine for a moment that the conservative reviewers on the panel are theistic evolutionists. (This is a thought experiment, take it as a given.)</i><br /><br />I don't think I'm an accomodationist as such, but I fail to see why anyone would be happier with this situation than they are with creationism in science class.<br /><br />Firstly, the conservative memebers are not the equivalent of theistic evolutionists, who on the whole seem to try to minimize the conflict between religion and science (not always consistently, but mostly). They're more like the equivalent of YECs (and they're probably that, too), and seek to do as much damage to the teaching of American History as the YECs do to Natural History. So I refuse to take that as a given -- you don't get to just make up hypotheticals arbitrarily and base an argument on them.<br /><br />I would say that you teach American history as the best professional historians say it was, influenced by a mix of (various stripes of) Christianity, Enlightenment ideas, non-ideological economics (which frequently commandeered ideology as a justification, rather than the other way round), and all sorts of other stuff (not being a student of AH, I wouldn't know the details).Eamon Knighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04262012749524758120noreply@blogger.com