"Flame war"
In light of what my borther calls "flame war" on his facebook page, for those of you are freinds with my brother. Here is a longer explanation of my initial statement (on the first post about religion haveing to stay out of classrooms) that I thought we were "debating" until some really hectic value statements were made. Now first, to be all on the same page when we use certain words, a few definitions are in order. Firstly the word "theory" as opposed to "hypothesis". According to my brother, ALL religious people do not understand the difference. According to the Oxford Dictionary a theory has the following meanings: 1. A supposition or system of ideas explaining something esp. one based on basic principles independent of the particular things to be explained. (theory of evolution, atomic theory) 2. a speculative (esp. fanciful) view (one of my pet theories) 3. the sphere of abstract knowledege or speculative thought (this is all very wel