Posted on 10/23/2005 12:06:32 AM PDT by GretchenM
* The First Amendment says that Government must exorcise all traces of religion and theism from itself. *
The First Amendment says that Congress shall make no law respecting the [differing & divisive] establishments of religions.
The religion clauses were designed in significant part to try to temper religious disputes: -- The social dissension that grows out of the fact that people have different religions.
Thus, it is not necessary for governments to 'exorcise all traces', but to just avoid backing specific beliefs, -- those that divide us.
second answer to same post:
There is a math term for the transitional fossil situation but I have no idea what it is.
We have fossils A and B. Wow, there's a gap. Fossil C is discovered and now, more wow, there are two gaps: A-C and C-B.
Meanwhile left-brained liberal secular humanist dorks in major universities spend hours upon hours trying to figure out sophistical ways to make people believe that D.B. Cooper was descended from monkeys in an anxiety-ridden effort to overturn Christian sexual morality.
"Funny thing is, its the same group that believes in evolution."
Given that belief in the paranbormal and belief in evolution tend to be inverse (one goes up whne the other goes down) I suspect you are wrong but I'm not sure because I couldn't find good data on it.
http://static.highbeam.com/s/skepticaltadenaca/march222001/pollsshowparanormalbeliefsontheriseevolutionbelief/
prolly closer to 80 (the average)
Wrong on every point. Sorry.
mean, median or mode?
TA'd it and taught it once. Does that qualify me?
...because if you did, you would know that evolution 101 has been disproved a long time ago, but as a religious foundation it remains. It has been replaced by punctuated equilibrium because of no transitional fossils.
Incorrect. Evolution has not been disproved. In thousands of tests for 150 years it has been supported. And that includes fields of study which did not even exist 150 years ago (genetics, DNA research, radiometric dating, etc.).
There are lots of transitional fossils. Try PatrickHenry's List-O-Links or Ichny's great post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1410029/posts?page=661#661.
The only contention to the theory of evolution comes from religious people whose beliefs teach them otherwise. Not from science.
Theory: a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena; "theories can incorporate facts and laws and tested hypotheses"; "true in fact and theory"Hypothesis: a tentative theory about the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena; "a scientific hypothesis that survives experimental testing becomes a scientific theory"; "he proposed a fresh theory of alkalis that later was accepted in chemical practices"
Belief: any cognitive content (perception) held as true
You are referring to the corners of the earth (yes, I've read more than Genesis)?
And your credentials are?
mean, and sometimes mode, based on some posts
"there are two obvious problems with radioactive dating for geological purposes: 1) uncertainty about the composition of the original sample and 2) possible losses of material during the time span of the decay."
The original composition question is the bigger issue but it introduces uncertainty of only a few percent. Radioactive dating correlates almost perfectly with items where the age is known for some other reason - like things made in Roman times and stamped with a date.
Since Radioactive dating places the age of some rocks in the billions of years a small percentage error (or even a large percentage error) would still have the age in the billions of years.
And unlike evolution this is something that can be done in a lab and the technique can be taught in an afternoon.
The only way I have ever heard to reconcile this with the bible is that God purposely set out to test out faith by making billions of different objects all have the radioactive signature of being much old - it would have to be a deliberate and large scale trick by God.
"Science isn't conducted by polls"
No...but science is often funded by tax-payers...who are often polled and who vote in POLL BOOTHS!
Right on every point, sorry.
Things made in Roman times don't go back billions of years.
Man cannot design an amoeba, but an amoeba can design a man. Those who think themselves wise, become as fools when they worship creation rather than a Creator.
"Things made in Roman times don't go back billions of years."
No they dont. But the same basic techniques are used.
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