Posted on 02/19/2015 12:10:25 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The 2016 presidential campaign is already upon us and the debate is heating up over an unexpected issue -- the theory of evolution. Of course, in an ideal world, evolution would never really become a campaign issue. But the anti-science wing of the Republican Party continues to voice skepticism. Apologists for this wing would dearly like to distract the media and the voting public from what is, frankly, a national if not a global embarrassment.
In truth, the President of the United States needs to be scientifically literate. For the federal government has an important role to play and it is a role that will only grow larger and more complex in the next president's term. It has been a century since the theory of evolution has become settled, incontrovertible science. To doubt evolution at this late date is to reveal oneself to be willfully, invincibly ignorant of basic scientific principles. And there is no room in the Oval Office -- none -- for the scientifically illiterate.
Just consider some of the issues the federal government has recently addressed and is likely to address in the next few years. Let's begin with some recent history -- the Human Genome Project. In 1990, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Energy and some international groups and organizations commenced work on mapping the human genome -- the intricately-wrought genetic pattern that we all inherit from our ancestors and that makes human life possible. In 2003, the Project was brought to successful completion....
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...no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
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I’ve had some grad students tell me that they were pressured on even some very tangentially related research papers to include how the findings support evolution.
Today, it’s probably global warming... err... climate change.
Also a key requirement is that useful information must be added through mutation, a destructive process.
Wow... we’re on exactly the same page.
That’s what this is, indeed -
you must adhere to the religion of materialistic humanism or you cannot be president.
I personally believe that species like zebras, ponies, etc came from a common ancestor,
as did tigers, lions, jaguars, panthers, bobcats, and Binky,
though from a different common ancestor.
Those suffering from Down Syndrome don't reproduce, by your logic Down Syndrome should have disappeared long ago as well. Same with Tay Sachs. Evolution does not claim to do away with genetic abnormalities.
One might want to read “The Privileged Planet” or view the DVD.
Voters can apply whatever test they see fit as to the candidate they choose. Unfortunately, intelligence is not a caveat in the process, hence the disaster we have today.
I once worked for a temp. agency as a staffer (not a temporary) and they paid depending on the degree you held, even though in most cases your degree had little or nothing to do with the tasks you were assigned.
There’s a followup that I eagerly await at our library:
Privileged Species
Downs people are sterile?
They seldom if ever are in a position to reproduce.
We disapprove of their reproducing, especially in Western society, but they are not, by and large, any more sterile than anyone else. Any physicians here?
I liked Duncan Hunter’s answer when he was asked about evolution in 08.
He said he believed that God is the creator of the universe and didn’t really care if it took 7 days or billions of years.
Evolution theory as taught in government schools skips some important details that makes it reasonable to reject. Natural evolution is one thing, very slow with many variations on a theme, but what humans experienced was highly unusual and has not been duplicated. There is some unexplained environmental pressure driving the need for increasing human intelligence far in excess of that needed for basic survival, and it does not apply to anything else. It is not natural evolution, but super-natural evolution. One explanation is this special pressure is tribal warfare, which is driven by human vanity and envy. If so, the word human really means war maker, something libtards could never accept. We are killers to the bone and that DNA cannot be suppressed by leftist indoctrination in the government schools. Until they teach a theory of human evolution that plausibly adds up, people are completely reasonable in rejecting it.
That position is pretty easy to get into, if I recall...
Actually they are. Fewer than half of Downs Syndrome females are fertile and the potency rate for males is far less than that. The number of reported births resulting from either a male or female with Downs Syndrome is is very low, fewer than 30 since 2006.
That’s a good answer, but I would also question the asker - what exactly are your motives behind asking the question?
And you base that on?
I know two personally, so those numbers seem off a bit.
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