Banning Tolkien, some questions - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Iarwain · 05-07-2003, 04:52 PM

As Lalaith pointed out, when the theory of evolution is discussed (ususally much earlier that Senior year) it is not pointed out to be a theory in the same way as a meteor bringing about the start of the last ice age is. It is given, stressed as the only rational possibility, and then the rest of the theories for the origin of life on earth are provided as fundamentalist mythology. Of course, this is how it is in a Catholic school. Perhaps they are more judicial in their presentation elsewhere, but personally I doubt it. The fact remains that there are hundreds of millions (if not billions) of people out there who think evolution to be the irrational one between the two, and see it as a feeble attempt to eliminate an obligation to morality and to deny the existence of God. The reason for banning Tolkien in these Christian schools is that they do not know what the reality of Tolkien is. Vana explained it perfectly.

Iarwain

05-07-2003, 04:52 PM	#1
Iarwain Pugnaciously Primordial Paradox Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Birnham Wood Posts: 800	As Lalaith pointed out, when the theory of evolution is discussed (ususally much earlier that Senior year) it is not pointed out to be a theory in the same way as a meteor bringing about the start of the last ice age is. It is given, stressed as the only rational possibility, and then the rest of the theories for the origin of life on earth are provided as fundamentalist mythology. Of course, this is how it is in a Catholic school. Perhaps they are more judicial in their presentation elsewhere, but personally I doubt it. The fact remains that there are hundreds of millions (if not billions) of people out there who think evolution to be the irrational one between the two, and see it as a feeble attempt to eliminate an obligation to morality and to deny the existence of God. The reason for banning Tolkien in these Christian schools is that they do not know what the reality of Tolkien is. Vana explained it perfectly. Iarwain __________________ "And what are oaths but words we say to God?"