[Kansas Gov. Kathleen] Sebelius criticizes State Board of Education's move [new science standards]

Kansas City Star via Kansas.com ^ | 12 November 2005 | DAVID KLEPPER

[balrog666]

This thread to needs to ferment a little longer.

[PatrickHenry]

Is this why most of your posts are to no one?

[Null response!]

[RightWingNilla]

That was joseph goebbels and not joe stalin, who by the way was a pagan and who showed the same didain for Judeo-Christian teachings, as some modern scientists do today.

So why emulate nazi propaganda tactics?

[donh]

All I ask is that people should keep an open mind about the origins of life and not exclude possible reasons.

All I ask is that scientists stick to examining proximate material causes for things, and that high school science textbooks stick to reporting only the most well-established of those.

[RightWingNilla]

However, it appears that you consider unable to produce ascorbic acid a "broken gene" or a negative.

There is a non-functional L-GLO gene in humans and great apes. It is there, it just doesnt produce the enzyme necessary of vitamin C synthesis. It is broken.

The defect has been mapped to a deletion at a specific locus (found in exactly the same position in humans, gorillas and chimps).

[donh]

An even better stated question, thank you.

I don't think you're reading with your brights on. This is not a restatement of your contention.

[donh]

Evolutionists denounce divine intervention and vice versa leaving each with a narrow acceptance of probability.

Divine intervention denounces scientists? I'll be darned. There is no pitched battle going on between science and God, except in the minds of creationists.

[donh]

Who can say with absolute certainty and proof that the universe will not collapse upon itself tomorrow leaving one giant black hole void of any life at all.

I recommend Allstate. The premiums might be steep, but the payout ought to be pretty darn sizeable, considering the real estate losses.

[donh]

I believe death is the result of our ignorance of science, it is unnecessary.

Huh. You're looking forward to being up to your eyeballs in earthworms?

[donh]

Without religion governments would become God leaving us in a police state with politicians playing the role of apostles.

Like, for example, during the Spanish Inquisition, or when the Popes burned scientists, witches and other misc. peoples with whom they disagreed at the stake? Or like when the 100 years war depopulated Northern Europe into an ungoverned wilderness? Or, wait, maybe you mean like when the 1st Crusaders massacred jewish communities wholesale on their way to the holy lands?

[donh]

All scientific conclusions should come with an asterisk.

They do. Science undergos periodic revolutions. Consider what the large-scale universe looked like in 1900 vs. now. It's expected, unlike the case with religious precepts.

[Dimensio]

Evolutionists denounce divine intervention and vice versa leaving each with a narrow acceptance of probability.

No, people who understand science dismiss "divine intervention" as a scientific explanation, because divine intervention is inherently unscientific. There are a number of people who accept evolution and also believe that divine intervention occurs; they simply correctly understand that divine intervention has no place in a scientific explanation.

[Dimensio]

As I thought. You were lying when you claimed to have rational arguments. You just came in to insult people who accept real science.

[furball4paws]

Attack of the Phorids.

http://www.deathonline.net/decomposition/corpse_fauna/flies/coffin.htm

[furball4paws]

Can't decompose what's not there.

[TheForceOfOne]

My brights are on and there is a deer staring at my headlights.

You have succeeded in reducing the conversation lower than my attention will endure.

Conversation over.

[WildTurkey]

Your every post indicates how much you fear genuine scientific inquiry.

Since you are totally lacking in scientific query you might as well go home.

[WildTurkey]

As I thought. You were lying when you claimed to have rational arguments. You just came in to insult people who accept real science.

I wonder if LS's other brother got ahold of his password? Or is LS a total creo?

[jennyp]

How about this one?

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Ooh, that could be good. Too bad the page doesn't have any samples. I'll have to try to remember that one next time I'm at the Barnes & Noble.

I'll probably be getting the new classic Christmas album this year.

[furball4paws]

The Cadillacs do a really stupid version White Christmas that'll have you literally ROTFLYAO.