Personally, I am finding out more about her, especially what her administration took on and did. The investigation, I think, is going nowhere with even the special prosecutor's office saying they're getting full cooperation and no major results so far; and even the Alaska Democratic party leadership has good things to say about her.
Re: creationism - I think the full article rather undermines the interpretation of that one line from one debate. She straightforwardly says she is for open dialog on religion: "I don't think there should be a prohibition against debate if it comes up in class. It doesn't have to be part of the curriculum."
I for one am very much against "creation science" as a curriculum item, but very much for discussion of the differences between science and religion. And no need to disparage either in that discussion. Then again, my schooling involved a state-wide top science program taught within a religious institution. It was impressed upon us that science is a matter of methodology, and religion a matter of faith, each to its own purposes. Mixing the two, it was explained, is best reserved for philosophy classrooms.
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Date: 2008-08-30 09:48 pm (UTC)Re: creationism - I think the full article rather undermines the interpretation of that one line from one debate. She straightforwardly says she is for open dialog on religion: "I don't think there should be a prohibition against debate if it comes up in class. It doesn't have to be part of the curriculum."
I for one am very much against "creation science" as a curriculum item, but very much for discussion of the differences between science and religion. And no need to disparage either in that discussion. Then again, my schooling involved a state-wide top science program taught within a religious institution. It was impressed upon us that science is a matter of methodology, and religion a matter of faith, each to its own purposes. Mixing the two, it was explained, is best reserved for philosophy classrooms.