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7 School Board candidates would oppose teaching creationism
Stillwater Gazette ^ | 10/28/03 | Greg Huff

Posted on 10/30/2003 6:10:17 PM PST by Dales

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To: Ogmios
Your first version was correcter.
41 posted on 10/30/2003 8:40:03 PM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: Doctor Stochastic
LOL, thanks Doc...
42 posted on 10/30/2003 8:42:20 PM PST by Ogmios (Since when is 66 senate votes for judicial confirmations constitutional?)
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To: Ogmios

When did evos become ... democratic - pluralistic --- I missed it !
43 posted on 10/30/2003 8:48:33 PM PST by f.Christian (evolution vs intelligent design ... science3000 ... designeduniverse.com --- * architecture * !)
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To: William McKinley
I admire you for stepping into this fray. I'm on the Creation side, BTW.

I'll take these scientists seriously (since they tend to be atheistic in their approach) when they can empirically rule out the existence of God.

Until then, I'll just enjoy their rather entertaining reasoning.


44 posted on 10/30/2003 8:55:21 PM PST by rdb3 (We're all gonna go, but I hate to go fast. Then again, it won't be fun to stick around and go last.)
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To: CobaltBlue
You can lie with statistics, but not to a statistician.
45 posted on 10/30/2003 8:57:37 PM PST by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: jennyp
Re: Intelligent Design. This can get a bit tricky.

On the one hand, you've got people arguing that this-or-that process is too complicated to have just evolved on its own. Examples include eyeballs, and the clotting of blood.

On the other hand, I mean, really. It's extremely easy to imagine that nothing ever happened. God never happened. The Universe never happened. Nothing exists. How hard is that to imagine?

Nevertheless, here we are. So. Why were we arguing? And what were we arguing about?
46 posted on 10/30/2003 8:59:26 PM PST by CobaltBlue
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To: CobaltBlue
How's your caseload Cobalt? They haven't overloaded you have they? ;)
47 posted on 10/30/2003 9:04:10 PM PST by Ogmios (Since when is 66 senate votes for judicial confirmations constitutional?)
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To: William McKinley
However, evolution and creationism are not completely unrelated. Both are trying to answer "where did we come from".

The problem, however, is that evolution is science while creationism is typically religion. There is some debate as to how evolution occured, but the debate is over minor details. There are countless creation stories, many of them wildly different.
48 posted on 10/30/2003 10:39:45 PM PST by Dimensio (The only thing you feel when you take a human life is recoil. -- Frank Jones (as "Earl"))
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To: William McKinley
Teaching creationism would be OK. I like the Navaho version, but the Hopi version is cool as well. They make the '7 days and 7 nights' thing look pretty boring in comparison.
49 posted on 10/30/2003 10:45:17 PM PST by Mr Crontab
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To: William McKinley
>How are we supposed to function as a nation if half the people aren't taught what the other half believe

By that reasoning, we should teach that 'reality' TV shows are really real, and that AOL is a good internet provider... (shudders)
50 posted on 10/30/2003 10:48:06 PM PST by Mr Crontab
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To: Doctor Stochastic
I must have been tripping in the 70s then. Nice try.
51 posted on 10/31/2003 3:51:27 AM PST by William McKinley
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To: Mr Crontab
Non sequitor.
52 posted on 10/31/2003 3:52:21 AM PST by William McKinley
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To: Dales
The alternative, according to the given definition of 'creationism', is that matter [science wants to guess] came out of nowhere, and improbably organized itself into living molecules, and then impossibly 'evolved upwards by pure chance. Who admits to have faith in this dogma?
53 posted on 10/31/2003 6:19:12 AM PST by metacognative
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To: Dimensio
The Darwinite Myth IS religion..not true science.
54 posted on 10/31/2003 6:21:27 AM PST by metacognative
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To: jennyp
That reveals a lot about your thinking...that Marx has 'logical and scientific' support!
55 posted on 10/31/2003 6:23:58 AM PST by metacognative
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To: metacognative
What does Marx have to do with anything on this thread?
56 posted on 10/31/2003 6:57:12 AM PST by PatrickHenry (Preserve the purity of your precious bodily fluids!)
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To: metacognative
"Darwinite Myth?" I'm not familiar with that term. Please describe it.
57 posted on 10/31/2003 7:13:53 AM PST by whattajoke (Neutiquam erro.)
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To: metacognative
You make a lot of bold statements, care to back them up?
58 posted on 10/31/2003 8:17:27 AM PST by Ogmios (Since when is 66 senate votes for judicial confirmations constitutional?)
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To: Ogmios
Speaking of backing up...what would you call belief that you can turn algae into ecosystems. Isn't it like lead into gold? The world is obviously running down. Who would believe that evolution could build it up if not a superstitious darwinite?
59 posted on 10/31/2003 9:49:08 AM PST by metacognative
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To: metacognative
Running down? What are you talking about?

Did the sun go out while I wasn't looking? Nope, just looked outside, there seemes to be just as much sun today as there was yesterday.

Sun=energy, therefore, as long as the sun shines, the earth will not run down.

Not sure where you came up with such an idea, but it is ridiculous.
60 posted on 10/31/2003 9:54:53 AM PST by Ogmios (Since when is 66 senate votes for judicial confirmations constitutional?)
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