Posted on 03/11/2010 8:20:35 AM PST by bs9021
Evolution Echo
Bethany Stotts, March 11, 2010
Creationism is often seen as a non-scientific theory in academia and among their liberal press counterparts, so it is not surprising that a recent Associated Press article takes aim at two homeschooling textbooks. But, for all the talk about home-schooled evangelicals and religious-themed textbooks, the reporter doesn’t let the audience into the true motivations of the academics he quotes.
“I feel fairly strongly about this. These books are promulgating lies to kids,” said Jerry Coyne, University of Chicago “ecology and evolution professor,” reports Dylan Lovan for the AP.
“[Jerry] Coyne and Virginia Tech biology professor Duncan Porter reviewed excerpts from the Apologia and Bob Jones biology textbooks, which are equivalent to ninth- and 10th-grade biology lessons,” he writes this March. “Porter said he would give the books an F.”
Actually, Professor Coyne runs his own blog, “Why Evolution Is True,” but Lovan doesn’t mention that. Instead, he writes that former chemistry professor Jay Wile ‘countered that Coyne ‘feels compelled to lie in order to prop up a failing hypothesis (evolution). We definitely do not lie to the students. We tell them the facts that people like Dr. Coyne would prefer to cover up.’”
“The common thread of many of the emails I’ve received is that evolution is not ‘proven’: that it’s not a fact but a theory,” states Professor Coyne in a March 10 blog entry. “I have tried to instruct one or two of these correspondents in what a scientific theory really is… But, as you might guess from the threads of the past few days, such instruction is futile.”
“I weep for the children who are home-schooled in creationist lies instead of science.” This is the type of unbiased professor to whom AP reporter Lovan apparently gravitates....
(Excerpt) Read more at academia.org ...
If we are here by accident, it doesn't matter what we do, even if you think it does, since there is no higher power or afterlife, and you are just a random collection of molecules creating random electrical patterns that you define as "thought".
Survival of the fittest is a dead end, since the universe will end up in heat death or collapse back on itself, and nothing survives either event.
However, if we are here by design, we need to understand the Designer's intent.
“I have tried to instruct one or two of these correspondents in what a scientific theory really is…”
Like the exciting recent discovery of “the missing link” Doc? Well...maybe not so much, eh? Keep throwing that sci-fi mud against the wall...it’s only been a hundred years...something will stick.
And no, I am not taking any side other than that continuing to refer to this bullshit as “proven science” sounds like a bloated Algore going on and on about HIS “settled science” and the “peer reviewed studies” that have also turned out to be completely bogus...
Hey, whatever happened to Cold Fusion?
Another attack in the war over DarwinGate!
Jerry Coyne is a liberal philosopher dressed in scientific clothing when he is not cross dressing with his paradigm mates.
Summation: He hates our history, he hates our values, he loves to lie, and mostly he loves big government centralized educational, philosophical brainwash control by the far left.
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