5th January 2008, 3:21 AM
N-Man Wrote:From what I gather, Ron Paul is a libertarian (or classical liberal, if you prefer). From that standpoint, you could probably indeed say that evolution is irrelevant. You can teach your children that, in the beginning, the world was vomited by the primordial god Koopa if you want, it's not really anybody else's business.
But it is. The child's. It's a betrayal and the fact is, children don't belong to their parents.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)