Posted on 10/10/2006 10:00:04 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
You are naive to think they do not.
I have followed many such accusations. To date, all of them turn out to be falsehoods or misunderstandings by the accusers, and not an actual case of a teacher trying to say that "evolution explains it all". Perhaps you could be the first to actually produce a valid example. Or, perhaps you're just making unfounded slanders.
There are many biology teachers who hate religion and believe that religious people can not be biologists.
Uh huh. Sure there are. Did the unicorns tell you this?
There was one professor who made students deny their religion before he would give them a recommendation.
Ah, now you're just lying. No, that is not what biology professor Michael Dini actually did. He made no religious test whatsoever. He simply said that in order to get a letter of recommendation from him, a biology graduate has to actually accept the principle tenets of biology. Sounds reasonable to me. And since the tenets of biology make no statement whatsoever with regards to religion, it's a gross falsehood for you to claim that he required them to "deny their religion". In fact, millions of scientists, including biologists, have no problem reconciling biology with their religions.
Now that we've seen you grossly misrepresent something like that, why should we trust anything else you have to say? Bearing false witness is against the Commandments, you know.
Why do you think the ACLU is involved.
Because lots of overzealous religous crusaders keep trying to sneak their religion into public schools.
They want to weed out any suggestion that evolution can't explain everything.
Wrong again. The ACLU is quite aware that evolution doesn't explain anything outside the realm of biology.
Shhh, don't tell anyone! ;-)
Actually, a while back an online forum asked for people to submit possible alternatives for the somewhat misleading slogan, "survival of the fittest". The winning entry was, "Every single one of your ancestors scored!"
That won't sit well with the Harun Yahya in Michigan.
Big time slip here in that truth is out it is evolution that wins not the truth or the children.
The authors thought that their readers would be smart enough to realize that they are the same thing, but in your case they overestimated.
...then that still leaves out evolution and other fields of science or scientific explanations.
It's amazing how many fights they can lose and still rake in money from suckers.
Rejoice! There is no need to feel isolated. In addition to those denominations that follow a literal reading of Genesis, there are people all over the world, of many faiths, who share your deeply-held belief in creationism, creation-science, and Intelligent Design.
To begin with, there are the Raelians, a sect based entirely on ID.
Don't overlook a billion followers Islam. For inspiration, read: Why Muslims Should Support Intelligent Design, By Mustafa Akyol.
The Hare Krishnas also reject Darwinian evolution. Their website has several enlightening articles. For example: The Intelligent Designer.
There is also the Unification Church, founded by Rev. Sun Myung Moon. One of Moon's followers, Jonathan Wells, is a leading intellectual in the ID movement. He is the author of Icons of Evolution, and is a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute. Wells has written movingly about how Rev. Moon motivated his career in ID: Darwinism: Why I Went for a Second Ph.D.
I'm sorry you feel that way.
Quick quiz: can you be an evolutionist and a Christian at the same time? Those who say "no" pretty much universally proclaim themselves Christians.
I just love that verse!
We're going ALL THE WAY TO THE SCHOOLHOUSE!!!
YEEEEEEHAAAAAA!
(can I say that here?)
The children do win. They aren't going to be subject to IDers crazy curriculum.
No you are one who lacks the truth. Dini insisted that the students 'affirm' that essentially man evolved from monkeys. It had nothing to do with the princile tenets of biology. What Dini did was try to create a religious test without making it look like he did. That is why he had to backpeddle and change his webpage. Dini's test was what the student believed not what he knew.
Nobody has ever made the assertion that humans evolved from monkeys. Nice try.
"I think the first thing they need to teach is the difference between "theory" and "scientific theory," a concept obviously lost on IDers."
You'd think that would be part of the basic introduction to science.
It is. At least, it was for me.
IDers have shown very little interest in actually learning anything about science, though. So it might not be surprising that they fail to comprehend the most basic concepts.
"The children do win. They aren't going to be subject to IDers crazy curriculum."
You call what is public education a winner, cause there has been no "IDers crazy curriculum" anywhere near a classroom for decades???
Time for an accounting for the results of what has been the only allowed curriculum, evolution!!!!
You're not actually going to suggest the decline of public education is related to teaching evolution, are you?
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