Posted on 12/20/2005 7:54:38 AM PST by snarks_when_bored
Fox News alert a few minutes ago says the Dover School Board lost their bid to have Intelligent Design introduced into high school biology classes. The federal judge ruled that their case was based on the premise that Darwin's Theory of Evolution was incompatible with religion, and that this premise is false.
Actually, that's the part of it we do know. The starting energy of the Big Bang was zero, and has never changed since. The gravitational fields of the universe have negative energy, just as the matter has positive energy, and as far as we can measure, their sums cancel to many decimal places.
What was the purpose of Miller and Urey's experiment?
The origin of life has nothing to do with Evolution. You can fully teach Evolutionary theory in schools without mentioning the origin of life at all. Darwin himself in his entire life only addressed the subject of the origin of life in a couple of sentences in a private letter where he speculated on it; he didn't have a word on it in anything he officially published.
The overwhelming majority of FR Creationists spend their time attacking theories of abiogenesis (life from non-life) and actually no time attacking evolution at all, ironically, because they don't even know what evolution is.
And no matter how much I point the above out, it continues, so they're obviously too dense to recognize reality.
LOL! Well, there are a few people that make me wonder if that's true sometimes!
If the theory of evolution is about how creatures evolved, the question becomes what they evolved from.
The overwhelming majority of FR Creationists spend their time attacking theories of abiogenesis (life from non-life) and actually no time attacking evolution at all
That shouldn't surprise us. After all, when you have an argument so weak, the only tactic you have is attacking a straw man.
Had they a better argument, they wouldn't have to resort to such nonsense. That they do so speaks volumes.
"At least they know when God has them beat!"
There is no way to know if God exists.
Keep mythology and religion out of the hard sciences. Its bad enough that we have the watermelons on the left pushing "Global Warming."
As for you members of the Boobouisie who think that this was a case of "judicial tyranny," let me just remind you that this judge did you all a favor. The existence of a "creator" just doesn't stand up under the scientific method.
"The Dover School Board, a political entity, decided that it was going to intervene in science classrooms and determine what will be taught there."
An electerd school board determining a curriculum? Heaven forbid!
And if Heaven isn't powerful enough get a federal court to forbid it!
And that question is the very interesting field of abiogenesis, filled with many theories, and obviously, since the origin of life was over 3 billion years ago, determining which of them is correct will be quite difficult as the surviving evidence of life at that time is spotty.
There's really no need to teach anything about abiogenesis in High School or Junior High given the uncertainty over it and the complexity of discussing it, and I'd have no problem with the whole topic being ignored. However, evolution is a different story.
You mean to tell me Zeus doesnt hurl lightning bolts down from Mt. Olympus?
You know how motion pictures work. Lots of individual picture frames, projected rapidly. The "missing link" is in the same place as the missing images between those in the movie film. They're gone.
But just like you don't need an infinite number of movie images to demonstrate that they record motion and reality, we don't need an infinite number of historical data to know that species have changed over time. We're adding new intermediate chunks of data every day, but we will never have every individual that ever lived, because they're gone.
It is a theory, just as you claim creationism is.
Read up on what a scientific "theory" is. You don't understand what it is.
The Constitution does prevent the government from PREVENTING the free exercise of religion. Banning it from the public arena, including public schools is unconstitutional. There is no such thing as a wall of separation or the guarantee of separation of church and state. Allowing it is not establishing it. So the Constitution does address the practice of religion in PUBLIC schools. It allows it. It doesn't relegate it to only church as if people who believe in some sort of god are second class citizens.
A curriculum ought to be decided in consultation with the teachers who implement it. To my knowledge, not a single biology teacher subject to the jurisdiction of the Dover School Board supported the mandate to introduce Intelligent Design into their biology classes. If I'm mistaken, please mention a name.
I'm all for doing one or two days in some science class somewhere along the way on "How to spot crackpot science."
Of course it's not, because the theory is disproven once you go back to the first living organism. It's hard to explain how the first living organism evolved from nothing.
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