Posted on 09/27/2002 5:59:21 AM PDT by Heartlander
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:01:19 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) --A suburban Atlanta school board Thursday night voted unanimously to allow teachers to introduce students to different views about the origins of life, among them creationism.
The Cobb County Board of Education, the state's second-largest school board, approved the policy change after limited discussion, calling it a "necessary element of providing a balanced education."
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It's a collection of essays and excerpts from papers by 60-odd scientists.
EG Francis Crick on the early (chemical, not Darwinian exactly) evoultion of the genetic code, Dobzhansky's classical essay from 1973, "Nothing in Biology makes sense except in light of evolution" which I didn't realize starts off discussing a 1966 attempt by a mullah to get the king of Saudi Arabia to ban the teaching of Copernican theory and bring charges of falsehoods toward Allah, the Koran and the Prophet. (Copernicanism is in fact, just a theory)
Highly recommended.
Based upon the discussion of this thread I consider that to be established.
Way to go Buck!
They do, but it's to be done in the interest of "balancing" the "disputed" view of evolution. Not in the interest of promoting religion. Heavens, no!
And a Catholic.
No, you are not a Catholic. You may have been born a Catholic but no longer are one. Evolution has turned you away from your religion. You know very well that evolution, and in particular the extreme materialism in which you believe, is completely incompatible with any sort of Christianity.
Neither can evolution because they keep changing the theory. In fact evolutionary theory is so totally phony that evolutionists will not even state just what the theory of evolution is, how it does what it does and how it can be disproven.
2. It's not evolution (the devil's own religion, you know)
Actually the above is quite accurate (a first for you?). As we have shown on many of these threads the theory of evolution is basic to Naziism. It also was highly regarded Marx and by numerous atheists. In addition its central theme 'survival of the fittest' and the implied moral that everything is legitimate for the sake of survival makes it quite a good tool for Satan.
3. Its advocates imagine they can avoid being labeled thumpers.
Perhaps, however, ID has a strong scientific basis and it has been believed by many great minds going back all the way to Aristotle so the canard of the evolutionists that all who oppose it are idiots (and that is your favorite canard) is a lie.
4. It doesn't explain anything (so there's nothing to explain).
It explains a lot. It explains why we keep learning more about life and yet we cannot find the key to explain it all. It explains why all the laws of nature had to be so exact. It explains why the answer to a problem is not to be found as simply as the dummies of evolution think it can. But most important it explains that while we may never know the final answer, we can find some answers which will be beneficial to mankind because unlike what the nihilists of evolution claim the world is not a random mess, a throw of the dice, but an orderly world made for us.
5. It's not supported by any evidence (so there's nothing to learn).
Another lie. Of course it is. There are many supports for it - Behe's bacterial flagellum is definitely ID and disproves evolution. More importantly though scientists, real scientists think that (1) the universe was indeed designed, (2) that life could not have arisen by chance and (3) that the development of an organism from a single cell to 100 trillion cells of exactly the right kind in exacly the right place all connected together is a program which could not have arisen at random.
Oh yes, I almost forgot, way back on post#138 I give five living examples of evidence against evolution and for ID. You and your evo 'scientists' have consistently ignored it and have not even attempted a refutation, so until anyone does, it is evidence of ID being true.
6. School boards are dumb enough to buy into it.
Aaah, here it comes again - anyone who denies evolution is an idiot. Other favorite canards are that those who do not buy into evolution are crazy or liars. These are the kind of arguments made by ideologues such as Communists and other such vermin. Those are not the kind of arguments made by people who believe in science or in seeking the truth.
Of course it does. Evolution denies that God is the Creator of life, that He is the Creator of man. In fact evolution has always been surrounded by a large cast of atheists from Darwin, Huxley and Haeckel to Gould and Dawkins. Evolution denies His works in an attempt to make Him irrelevant. By replacing a just and kind God with chaos and survival of the fittest it seeks to break the moral code and excuse perversity and immorality. So yes, evolution has a lot to say about religion.
Nope, your rhetorical nonsense is just an attempt to turn this discussion from the issues - on which the evolutionists can never win because evolution is a lie - to character assassination. The subject of these threads is not the participants no matter how much the evolutionists try to deny it. Therefore your statement was abusive, and not only deliberately abusive, but also connivingly abusive.
There is no excuse for the above in his 2nd most popular work. What he might have said in a letter trying to excuse his execrable statement above is irrelevant. It is especially irrelevant since the statement above is central to his degenerate theory. He is angry that the survival of the fittest which he holds so dear is being prevented from doing its work by kindness, morality and Christian charity. That shows what kind of man he was - a despicable human being and a charlatan posing as a scientist.
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