Posted on 08/19/2005 1:02:07 PM PDT by SmithL
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Echoing similar comments from President Bush, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said "intelligent design" should be taught in public schools alongside evolution.
Frist, R-Tenn., spoke to a Rotary Club meeting Friday and told reporters afterward that students need to be exposed to different ideas, including intelligent design.
"I think today a pluralistic society should have access to a broad range of fact, of science, including faith," Frist said.
Frist, a doctor who graduated from Harvard Medical School, said exposing children to both evolution and intelligent design "doesn't force any particular theory on anyone. I think in a pluralistic society that is the fairest way to go about education and training people for the future."
The theory of intelligent design says life on earth is too complex to have developed through evolution, implying that a higher power must have had a hand in creation. Nearly all scientists dismiss it as a scientific theory, and critics say it's nothing more than religion masquerading as science.
Bush recently told a group of Texas reporters that intelligent design and evolution should both be taught in schools "so people can understand what the debate is about."
That comment sparked criticism from opponents, including Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean, who called Bush "anti-science."
Frist, who is considering a presidential campaign in 2008, recently angered some conservatives by bucking Bush policy on embryonic stem cell research, voicing his support for expanded research on the subject.
Frist said his decision to endorse stem cell research was "a matter of science," but he said there was no conflict between his position on stem cell research and his position on intelligent design.
"To me, I see no disconnect between that and stem cell research," Frist said. "I base my beliefs on stem cell research both on science and my faith.
400. Prime!
No, but I once repaired cryptographic equipment in the Army, and had to set the codes every day. And repaired teletypes.
AAARRRRGGGHHHHH!!!!
Well, this thread certainly de-evolved into juvenile forms of discussion.
Not enough special energy.
You are keeping track I hope. I will come to collect at some point.
BTW, you missed an 'A'.
You'll have to do your collecting in the mop closet, because you will never get out of the janitorial pool.
Nope. I spent several years as an editor. Old habits die hard.
Yeah, they do.
You're right. They make me pity you.
The idea that you would demean yourself with such ugly displays on a public message board is sad.
As Jesus said; What comes out of the mouth defiles a man. It shows what's in his heart.
As I said, having been an atheist and evolutionist, I am familiar with the bitterness and emptiness that leads you to lash out at all who disagree with you.
And I forgive you for it.
--> The Cult of Evolution – the Opiate of the Atheists
Posted by Sir Francis Dashwood to ***********
On News/Activism 08/17/2005 11:31:27 PM EDT · 705 of 770Go suck a shotgun...
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Posted by Sir Francis Dashwood to **********
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Stuff it homo...
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Posted by Sir Francis Dashwood to **********
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morality is a delusion of the religious moronsMorality is based on the presupposition that some higher power defines what is correct for human behavior...
Rights? Define a right and the origin of such an idea...
As far as ********* is concerned, he is just a Marxist troll, f--k him... I don't know why he brought you into it except, since he is so weak, maybe he thought he might get some support...
SWING.... and a MISS!
Looks like I'll just have to start a union.
I was just trying to lighten the mood. :-P
Perhaps I should get you to edit my posts so they are a bit more intelligible.
Yikes! Those are some ugly quotes from so-called creationists.
In a way I consider it even worse when creationists display such hatefulness toward evolutionists.
Because they are misrepresenting the spirit of light that is supposed to come with believing God.
They should know better.
To be completely upfront about this, I don't know what religion this poster professes, if any. I only know that he opposes evolution, and that he was not criticised for these posts on the thread where they occurred.
Ping, Spalding, McGregor, Nike
The original Francis Dashwood was thought to be a Satanist by some of his contemporaries. He probably wasn't - drunken lout was more his style, but you can google it up if you like ;)
No. Those were my science teachers in public school.
No I am not. I am familiar with the other names you mentioned and I agree with you about the move that is on. Doesn't make me a happy camper seeing the issue clouded.
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