Honk If You Didn’t Descend From A Fish

From Sea to Shining Sea ^ | 7/02/06 | Purple Mountains

[PurpleMountains]

Whenever I write a piece about Darwinism, I always get comments from people who say things like, “I like your site, but your advocacy of intelligent design just reveals your ignorance of science”. Although every survey shows that more than 80% of the American people reject Darwinism, the intellectual elites continue to treat this as the smell of the great unwashed, and insist that ‘educated’ people understand Darwin’s universal acceptance among intellectuals, even if ‘common people’ cannot understand the concept of geologic time.

[saganite]

My horn is busted.

[Oztrich Boy]

My horn is busted.

Ow. painful.

[elfman2]

"“I like your site, but your advocacy of intelligent design just reveals your ignorance of science”. Although every survey shows that more than 80% of the American people reject Darwinism, the intellectual elites continue to treat this as the smell of the great unwashed, "

It looks like someone just can’t justify misrepresenting creationism as intelligent design and evolution as Darwinism in the same sentence without claiming victimhood.

Virtually no one thinks any less of Christians for believing in divine intervention, but we don’t want you teaching it as a science in public schools. Teach it in the social sciences if you want. Expose my kids to all the Christianity you want, it doesn’t worry me, just don’t misrepresent it as a science.

[12th_Monkey]

I don't break for evolutionist

[Apple Pan Dowdy]

HONK

I'll proudly proclaim to be a believer in "intelligent design" even if that means being rediculed by some who think they are so intelligent that they cannot conceive of a God capable of creating the universe and doing it exactly the way He says He did it in in Divine Word.

Thanks for the post, Purple.

[driveserve]

"Virtually no one thinks any less of Christians for believing in divine intervention"...

Divine intervention is not what intelligent design proposes. Those are two different concepts.

And I agree with you regarding where I.D. should be taught. But then again, evolution doesn't belong anywhere near a "science" class either. And if truth be told, it should be taught that it is just another religion with its own explanation of how we all got here.

[elfman2]

Divine intervention is the implied mechanism of ID. http://www.pandasthumb.org/archives/2005/11/intelligent_des_11.html

Evolution meets virtually all criteria as a science. http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/evo/blfaq_evo_science.htm

Evolution fails to meet the definition of religion.
http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/evo/blfaq_evo_relig_religion.htm

[Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin]

How funny! I'm frying fish for dinner tonight...

[driveserve]

"Divine intervention is the implied mechanism of ID"
---Implied? Is that the best you can do?---

"Evolution meets virtually all criteria as a science"
---Except for proof, a small criteria---

"Evolution fails to meet the definition of religion"
---The one and only thing it does not fail at---

[elfman2]

Congratulations for posting the most pathetic reply I remember here.

[PurpleMountains]

1. In my definition of creationism, there is the implied belief that the world has only existed for a few thousand years.
2. There is no contradiction between I.D. and geologic time.
3. Unlike some proponents of I.D., who I feel are being a bit “cute”, I have no problem accepting God as the creator of all things, the mind of God being unfathomable to mere humans.
4. I have no problem with Darwinism being taught, so long as the contradictions and virtual absence of evidence is also presented – leading at least to the point that some people, including some in the scientific community, believe that there must be an intelligent creator.
5. Where in the public schools of American do you think Christianity might be taught or even mentioned?

[American Quilter]

Beep beep!

[elfman2]

I think we’re in agreement. It’s only fair that the best criticism of evolution to be prominently presented along side its evidence .

I strongly encourage Christianity to be appropriately presented in history, music and various social studies classes, tolerate it in English, sports and public ceremonies but oppose it in the hard sciences (except when the history of science is in play).

We’re not so different. There’s just a few people stirring it up on both ends.

[driveserve]

"Congratulations for posting the most pathetic reply I remember here"

Thank you. Is there a trophy of some sort or do I just get the satisfaction of having won the argument?

[elfman2]

"Thank you. Is there a trophy of some sort or do I just get the satisfaction of having won the argument?"

Of course. This one should be appropriate.

[driveserve]

That's cute. So you're into anime? You're definitely not into defending your position...

[Creationist]

God created everything in 6 days about 6000 years ago.

All visible evidence proves this.

The layers are evidence of a flood, how else does one get sedimentary layers.

Darwin's theory is just that a story that has no physical proof. And most of the stuff that is in public tax paid for text books has been disproved many years ago yet it is still there. There are those who say that the theory of evolution as discussed by theologian Darwin does not deal with origins. Then why is the title of his book of lies called "Orgin of Species" by means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the struggle for Life.

Evolution is a part of the back bone of racism.

The only one of the six definition of evolution that is factual to a believer of the Bible is microevolution or variation of a kind.

There never has and never will be an example of one kind of animal giving birth to another kind of animal. Dead bones do not prove a thing except that something lived and died.

The Bible is literal from the beginning to the end. The Bible is not a science book and those who believe in the Bible are not against science. If it does not agree with the Bible it is not true. And yes men of science will and have lied to further their position in the world.