Posted on 07/11/2008 4:06:06 AM PDT by Soliton
Louisiana is another story. A hub of creationist activism since the early 1980s, it was Louisiana that enacted the Balanced Treatment Act, which required that creationism be taught alongside evolution in schools. In a landmark 1987 case known as Edwards vs Aguillard, the US Supreme Court ruled the law unconstitutional, effectively closing the door on teaching "creation science" in public schools. ID was invented soon afterwards as a way of proffering creationist concepts without specific reference to God.
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Today divination is practiced by NASA when NOAA runs its climate models.
I doubt Hansen would care for your classification of his employee as chief GM guru as "magic".
Sounds like creationism/ID to me.
It appears our schools need much stronger programs in reading comprehension and logic, then. Neither creationist belief nor the Intelligent Design hypothesis has anything to do with controlling or forecasting natural events, effects, or forces. They are, rather, ways of viewing present-day facts in order to deduce past events, just as Darwinism is.
Yes, that's working so well. Our public schools - especially Louisiana's - turn out the best science students in the world.
Evolution is like a nice, big, palm sized rock.
It may be a fact that it is a rock. It may have certain properties that are beneficial,
but it also has the ability to be used as a weapon, and that’s how it’s been used in the past century.
When communists invaded countries in Europe, they didn’t indoctrinate people with the benefits of communism, they taught evolution.
They did this because the “reasonable/logical” conclusions of evolution are that
human life has no inherent value,
there is no need for a deity and therefore no existance of one,
and you should just submit to the deity-like authority of the State, because there is no higher authority.
Fine, it’s “science”, it’s _A_ way to explain observed similarities in species,
but that’s not WHAT IT’S USED FOR.
ID is creationism and creationism is magic. Creationists claim that God spoke words and created the natural world. That is controlling natural events by invoking the supernatural. Magic by definition.
In debate, you are not allowed your own definitions.
I'm having a hard time believing the Soviets didn't conduct any political indoctrination classes in their classrooms.
I wonder if the heliocentric theory followed a similar process toward acceptance?
OK,
they didn’t FIRST indoctrinate them with the glories of communism,
they had to destroy their concept of individual human worth first,
THEN communism (based on atheism) made more sense.
Do you think the Pope prays for the sunrise to happen everyday? When he gets sick, he goes to the doctor.
I also mention that anyone who can come up with a testable hypothesis for ID will probably be famous...so far no one argues about that, although it does provoke some thought & discussion....
Maybe. That doesn’t seem to fit the communist propaganda model. First they tell them they’ve been victimized and subjugated by the evil capitalists who control the resources, and the communists are their liberators.
That’s the model for internal takeover.
I’m referring to the model following a military invasion and takeover.
In America today, we’re getting both tactics thrust on us. If you’ve read the “Communist Goals for America” read into the congressional record in 1963, you’ll see most of what we see happening today -
destruction of the family, traditional values, religion, denegration of morals through pornography and promotion of sex and homosexuality.
Do you point out that ID was proven to be a deliberate scam to get around the Constitution?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-tk7MkHKtI
There seem to be plenty of Judeo-Christian churches and demonitations that can reconcile their faith with evolutionary theory.
The armies of ignorance are on the march my friend.
When does yours open for business?
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It seems the demand for choice in education is there.
The waiting lists for vouchers, tax credits, and charter schools are enormous!
Got a source for that?
Actually, I don’t, because I don’t spend that much time on it. Occasionally I do point out that people also thought the heliocentric theory was heresy because it seemed to contradict statements in the Bible, but we were able to reconcile it with Judeo-Christian beliefs a long time ago...
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