But just for the record (verbatim and without commentary), following are some of the creationist gems from this thread that made me, personally, despair for the future of science education:
Whatever happened to cause life it was not "spontaneious combustion" as they once thought.
What do you mean by evolution..? The term evolution is a mishmash of concepts... If you mean a lizard decided to grow feathers.. That didnt happen.. Actually theres a whole range of other things that didnt happen either..
Regarding Change. For Creationism - what's to change?? GOD DID IT. That's the essence of the program.
Darwinsim in general: the simple evolves to the more complex when it benefits the organism in some manner. Example: eyesight obvious benefits the organism in innumerable ways.
Behe in general: have you ANY idea how complex eyesight is??? How do you POSSIBLY 'evolve' eyesight?
What type of evolution happened? There are 6 different kinds and only one has been proven.
68% of this country do not believe in evolution as a creation theory.
How can you test evolution? … I guess you'd have to be a zillion years old to do that.
Why do we want to indoctrinate children away from free-thinking?
Our children are taught that a tiny piece of dust exploded in a big bang, random chemicals ended up on earth and mixed with fluid and made goo that was electified somehow and that chemically reacted goo is our great, great ancestor. Is this not a disservice to our children?
Personally, I think the truly fascinating discussion is the mechanism by which God created. Nanotechnology seems a distinct possibility.
As so poignantly put by "alancarp" in post 94: I'll let everybody chew on these concepts for a while.
Even though I've read all of those snippets at various points before in the discussion, I read through your selections all at once, and I believe that I am less intelligent for it. Like you, I weep for our future.