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   From: tiffirgREVERSE@ctc.net   
      
   Pastor Dave wrote:   
      
   > On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 08:33:54 -0400, Raymond Griffith   
   >  posted thusly:   
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   >>Pastor Dave wrote:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>>On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 18:25:17 -0400, Raymond Griffith   
   >>> posted thusly:   
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   >>>   
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   >>>   
   >>>>Actually, failure to properly document your sources is what merits the   
   >>>>failing grade.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>Not buying into the evolutionary hype is what merits a   
   >>>failing grade.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >>Nope. In my school it is the failure to properly document your sources.   
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   >   
   > Sure it is.   
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   >   
   >>We teach the science, but we realize it is futile to try to get people   
   >>to actually believe something they don't want to. So if they demonstrate   
   >>an understanding of the topic taught, they generally pass. Plagarism and   
   >> other forms of academic dishonesy are severely punished, though.   
   >   
   >   
   > And understanding doesn't mean believing it?  If   
   > someone says, "I understand it, but it's wrong", the   
   > teacher would not say, "If you understood it, you   
   > wouldn't think it's wrong.  Therefore, you must need to   
   > study it some more", ot something to that effect?  Or   
   > would they not ask why and then dismiss any arguments   
   > against it and fail the student, due to lack of   
   > understanding of the material?   
      
   You are blowing smoke, Davey boy. If they get the answers correct on the   
   test as the teacher asks for it, then they pass. We don't ask them if   
   they "believe" it. Grief! We have standards, even if you don't.   
      
   And how about those Christian colleges who will throw out a student who   
   doesn't believe things their way?   
      
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   >   
   >   
   >>Shoot, I have people here at this school who don't believe in *math*!   
   >>Their future seems clear enough -- "Do you want fries with that?"   
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   >   
   > Thank you for proving my point.  If one doesn't buy   
   > into what you believe, then they will have no future.   
   > But of course, no bias there, right?   
      
   A person without math skills is pretty much doomed to either fail or   
   enter the ministry . I take it you don't believe in *math*, either?   
      
   Regards,   
      
   Raymond E. Griffith   
      
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