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Serbia strikes blow against evolution [education]
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| 07 September 2004
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Posted on 09/07/2004 12:47:31 PM PDT by PatrickHenry
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Serbia joins with Kansas and Georgia in purifying its educational system.
To: VadeRetro; jennyp; Junior; longshadow; RadioAstronomer; Physicist; LogicWings; Doctor Stochastic; ..
Evolution Ping! This list is for the evolution side of evolution threads, and maybe other science topics like cosmology.
See the list's description in my freeper homepage. Then FReepmail me to be added or dropped.
To: PatrickHenry
"going back to the Book of Revelations"
... ah, that would be Genesis.
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posted on
09/07/2004 12:51:37 PM PDT
by
Michael Goldsberry
(Which part of "Don't Mess With Texas" didn't you get?)
To: PatrickHenry
Yay! At least we won't have to worry about Serbia catching up to us in biotech any time soon.
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posted on
09/07/2004 12:52:32 PM PDT
by
Shryke
(Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.)
To: PatrickHenry
I read the headline... and I thought that they discovered something in Serbia that disproved evolution.
I like the theory of evolution myself, but even I know it has some flaws when applied to complex species such as our own. At the lower levels, it makes a lot of sense, but when applied to our genetic ancestors... there had to be a breaking point where hominid intelligence stopped being operative and expanded to include intuition, logic, and reason.
Hmm...
To: PatrickHenry
Glad to see you made it. I had no electricity for 26 hours. My boss had three trees fall on his house. One was large enough to crush his garage.
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posted on
09/07/2004 12:54:43 PM PDT
by
js1138
(Speedy architect of perfect labyrinths.)
To: PatrickHenry
No, Kansas is against open discussion and debate. The state will tell you what to think on this subject.
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posted on
09/07/2004 12:56:14 PM PDT
by
The Ghost of FReepers Past
(Legislatures are so outdated. If you want real political victory, take your issue to court.)
To: coconutt2000
Personally, I see more evidence for devolution than evolution.
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posted on
09/07/2004 12:57:20 PM PDT
by
aimhigh
To: Leapfrog
>"going back to the Book of Revelations"
>... ah, that would be Genesis.
Ah, Genesis is, and I quote, "the final section of the Christian Bible?"
To: orionblamblam
I hardly think allowing debate and critical analysis turns them into a theocracy.
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posted on
09/07/2004 1:01:32 PM PDT
by
The Ghost of FReepers Past
(Legislatures are so outdated. If you want real political victory, take your issue to court.)
To: PatrickHenry
Serbia is becoming more Islamic in its biological theories.
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posted on
09/07/2004 1:02:38 PM PDT
by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: js1138
Glad to see you made it. I had no electricity for 26 hours. No problems here. Didn't even lose electricity. Lotta bad weather, of course. Ivan may arrive for the weekend, however. We shall see.
To: PatrickHenry
I'm just amazed that Christians are pushing this Creationism thing with their children. The result will be that their children grow up, go to college, get exposed to the evidence for evolution, and decide that there is no God at all.
If Christians would just decide that the Bible wasn't a science textbook, and that God has the power to create evolution, then there's no problem. Kid goes to college, see's evolution evidence, and says "Cool, look what God did".
Christians are shooting themselves in the foot on this issue.
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posted on
09/07/2004 1:06:11 PM PDT
by
narby
(Zell Miller - NOT a girlie-man)
To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
I hardly think allowing debate and critical analysis turns them into a theocracy. They're mandating/prohibiting far more than simply "allowing" debate...
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posted on
09/07/2004 1:06:54 PM PDT
by
Ichneumon
("...she might as well have been a space alien." - Bill Clinton, on Hillary, "My Life", p. 182)
To: orionblamblam
By Genesis, I mean that the Creation timeline is in Genesis, not Revelations.
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posted on
09/07/2004 1:07:05 PM PDT
by
Michael Goldsberry
(Which part of "Don't Mess With Texas" didn't you get?)
To: narby
Christians are shooting themselves in the foot on this issue. Some are. Most denominations aren't involved in this "creation science" stuff.
To: coconutt2000
I like the theory of evolution myself, but even I know it has some flaws when applied to complex species such as our own. At the lower levels, it makes a lot of sense, but when applied to our genetic ancestors... there had to be a breaking point where hominid intelligence stopped being operative and expanded to include intuition, logic, and reason. Most mammal and bird species "include intuition, logic, and reason" in greater or lesser amounts. The differences between human intelligence and animal intelligence is primarily in degree, not kind.
If there was some sort of "breaking point" in the rise of analytical intelligence, it was several hundred million years ago in reptilian precursors, not as recently as our hominid ancestors.
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posted on
09/07/2004 1:11:08 PM PDT
by
Ichneumon
("...she might as well have been a space alien." - Bill Clinton, on Hillary, "My Life", p. 182)
To: Doctor Stochastic; PatrickHenry
Serbia is becoming more Islamic in its biological theories. Good point. While researching creationist claims, I've run across a lot of Islamic creationist materials.
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posted on
09/07/2004 1:12:31 PM PDT
by
Ichneumon
("...she might as well have been a space alien." - Bill Clinton, on Hillary, "My Life", p. 182)
To: Ichneumon
It doesn't sound like they are prohibiting anything other than dogmatism. What's everyone so scared of?
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posted on
09/07/2004 1:12:57 PM PDT
by
The Ghost of FReepers Past
(Legislatures are so outdated. If you want real political victory, take your issue to court.)
To: narby
Perhaps if you picked up a book or two on intelligent design you would discover that Christians are not shooting themselves in the foot at all.
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posted on
09/07/2004 1:14:06 PM PDT
by
The Ghost of FReepers Past
(Legislatures are so outdated. If you want real political victory, take your issue to court.)
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