Posted on 12/14/2004 7:14:55 AM PST by wkdaysoff
HARRISBURG, Pa. — The state American Civil Liberties Union (search) plans to file a federal lawsuit Tuesday against a Pennsylvania school district that is requiring students to learn about alternatives to the theory of evolution (search).
The ACLU said its lawsuit will be the first to challenge whether public schools should teach "intelligent design," which holds that the universe is so complex that it must have been created by some higher power....
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No, it doesn't.
I am referring to the fact that scientists disagree over whether or not creationism is a theory.
LOL!!
Is this an April Fools joke?
Tell me there are not really people that don't understand evolution?
He asked why, if Christians did not think the world was flat, did the Catholic Church recently apologize to Galileo. I was making a distinction that needed to be made. If my memory of history serves me, the issue with Galileo was that he claimed (correctly) that we were not the center of the universe, not that the Earth was round. That said, I believe there were many protestant religions in practice in the 1600's
I just wanted to get it from the horse's mouth.
"Does "academic freedom" include teaching astrology and alchemy in science class too?"
They are as valid a belief system as evolution, choose your poison.
This is just flat out wrong. The TOE does not deal with the origins of life.
an non-controversial piece of data disputing age determinations in all fields would be a grand test of evolution.
How is that age determined and proven?
Lousy definition. It misses completely the essential aspect of a myth - that it's untrue or at best highly exaggerated.
Has the Second law of thermodynamics been revised
Not significantly, no. Thre wasn't a conflict between it and evolution when Clausius formulated it, and there still isn't.
"Explain how the second law of thermodynamics stands at odds with the theory of evolution."
Physics proposes a picture of the cosmos "running down" toward an eventual state of entropy, whereas evolution as looked at "globally," represents a "current moving in the opposite direction from entropy.
No, they're not. Alchemy and astrology are demonstrably erroneous pseudosciences. Evolution is a demonstrably factual scientific theory.
Nonsense. Evolution, looked at globally, is driven by the flow of energy from the sun, a heat source at 10000 K (on the surface), into the ambient universe at 2 K. The rate of entropy increase in that process is at least 20 orders of magnitude greater than the rate of entropy decrease due to evolution, which is probably unmeasurably small.
Through independent dating of a variety of different radiometric isotopes that have known decay rates. Both from different samples are taken from the same source, as well as different isotopes on the same source, if possible. But don't just listen to me, read what Dr. Roger Wiens has to say in:
Radiometric Dating, A Christian Perspective
There are other methods of establishing and correlating dates that have been used to firm up history out to about 100,000 years without just simply relying on radiometric dating.
Finally, Astrophysics provides still more evidence of an ancient universe, in case all of the other evidence isn't enough, but that's another post.
My guess had nothing to do with ID, it had everything to do with my belief that the ant and wasp were created at the same time.
"factual scientific theory."
Sounds like the proverbial oxymoron.
Wrong. That is a lie. Life must exist before evolution can occur. There is no other way. Sorry. The only mixed-goo story I am aware of is found in Genesis. Do many Evolutionists believe in Big Bang and spontaneous/non-Deity life? Yes. That in NO WAY means that evolution covers the origins of life, or the universe, or chive cream cheese.
Intelligent design is a scientific alternative to evolution.
No, it is NOT. It is certainly an alternative, but it is not, not, not, not, not science. I've seen the "peer reviewed" journal you are discussing. It's one article, IIRC. It's about as solid as Phrenology.
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