Posted on 05/12/2006 12:13:47 PM PDT by PatrickHenry
In his op-ed "Evolution's bottom line," published in The New York Times (May 12, 2006), Holden Thorp emphasizes the practical applications of evolution, writing, "creationism has no commercial application. Evolution does," and citing several specific examples.
In places where evolution education is undermined, he argues, it isn't only students who will be the poorer for it: "Will Mom or Dad Scientist want to live somewhere where their children are less likely to learn evolution?" He concludes, "Where science gets done is where wealth gets created, so places that decide to put stickers on their textbooks or change the definition of science have decided, perhaps unknowingly, not to go to the innovation party of the future. Maybe that's fine for the grownups who'd rather stay home, but it seems like a raw deal for the 14-year-old girl in Topeka who might have gone on to find a cure for resistant infections if only she had been taught evolution in high school."
Thorp is chairman of the chemistry department at the University of North Carolina.
1 John 4
1. Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
2. This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,
3. but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.
The cartoon of the small angel on one shoulder and a small devil on the other is quite accurate.
We HAVE to be able to discern which is talking to us or even if it's our own idea.
By turning to the LDS organization, one has to throw out solid biblical teachings and go on to things proposed by man; things that directly go against the bible.
You have to accept a man's word that 'the bible is "accurate", as long as it's translated properly'. He then goes on and TRIES to redo the NT in places and does even use any old Greek transcripts!
I am not wooried about a person getting into a 'cult' as much as I do about them getting into nothing (which is really themselves.)
God has said that if we seek Him with all our hearths, we WILL find him.
So what's going on here?
Or here See section 4 for a discussion of the shared mutation that prevents people, chimps, gorillas et al from making vitamin C.
There is a missing base pair *in the same place* in the genome of all the great apes. Everything else needed to make ascorbic acid is present, but this single mutation, shared by people and the other great apes but found nowhere else in the animal kingdom, blocks it.
What are the alternatives to common descent? The exact same mutation occurring independently at least six times? A "designer" with a really bad quality control program? A Biblical "fall" that punished gorillas for Adam's sin? What?
So, do YOU agree with Havoc's post? Do YOU think that the Catholic Church is a cult? Or are you going to evade the question while tacitly supporting his statements? |
Were they LIES?????
No, I remember. Sorry. You may be able to get by with making statements publicaly and trying to rewrite history; but, you can't rewrite the memory of it that those of us who were there have. The only way you can get away with it is to try and make us all think we've just forgotten or mis-remembered. Ain't gonna work.
"Were they LIES?????"
Yes.
Yes. And the cults count on the illiteracy and try to supplant familiarity with the scriptures with their own histories, traditions and dogmas. They indoctrinate in their philosophy so that the philosophy is the lense they see scripture through rather than seeing it standing on it's own.
Catholics read scripture in light of Catholicism. Mormons read in light of Mormonism. Etc. When you divorce the ism from the reading, it's amazing how floored people are.
This is why Evolutionists get the mistaken impression that "christians" support Evolution. Christians have a really good idea what a Scientist is. Evolutionists have no bloody earthly idea what a Christian is. So anyone claiming it will serve the purpose..
You ain't PH: HE made the statement I need clarified.
You ain't PH: HE made the statement I need clarified.
You are still as obtuse as you were in the 'enemy' thread!
Which ones?
"You are still as obtuse as you were in the 'enemy' thread!"
And you are still as unwilling to own up to that. Please, if you want, post that again here; let's see what people think of it. I wasn't the only one who read it as I did.
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