[PatrickHenry]

I added a couple of [ooops] remarks where the article obviously goes scientifically astray.

Everyone be nice.

[PatrickHenry]

EvolutionPing

A pro-evolution science list with over 220 names. See list's description at my homepage. FReepmail to be added/dropped.

[ScottFromSpokane]

Saudi-style religious dogma

I always appreciate it when newspaper writers put a piece of egregious stupidity in their first paragraph as a signal that I don't need to watse my time reading the rest of the piece. Nice of them.

[bencarter]

By definition of the term, America can never be a 'third world county'. but I digress

[mlc9852]

Why are they so against just advising students that evolution is a theory? No one has said Genesis was now their textbook. Why not allow more than one opinion? Isn't science about questioning?

[VadeRetro]

... where the article obviously goes scientifically astray.

But let us also note the errors are significant UNDERSTATEMENTS.

[Oztrich Boy]

Everyone be nice.

6 posts in an hour. See what happens to crevo threads when you put restrictions like that on them

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

"no evidence exists to support any theory of evolution except Charles Darwin's."

...none, EXCEPT for the many firsthand testimonies of Noah's Ark and collusion among many in Turkey's government and elsewhere to minimize opportunities to access the mountain range in which it's been reportedly seen by many....and the fact that if the solar system was anywhere near as old as some claim--our sun would have been so much larger--its gravitational pull would have been so much higher--that the innermost planets by now would have spiraled into it by now....

It is a curious fact that, while neither theory of origins can prove itself or disprove its rival SCIENTIFICALLY, it is the Darwinists who religiously clamor that only the dogma of THEIR church be proselytized in government taxpayer-supported classrooms to the children of the taxpayers--while simultaneously seeking to quash free-market opportunities via vouchers and INDEPENDENT charter schools for these same parents to have taught to their kids according to their beliefs.

Related FR threads:

Intellectuals Who Doubt Darwin
http://www.freerepublic.com/%5Ehttp://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=7429

Why Darwinists Fear Democracy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308881/posts

Darwinists Top the Censorship Food Chain
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1309195/posts

Also see: Institute for Creation Research: http://www.icr.org/

[metacognative]

I like the 'be nice' part. But I think you Established Religion true believers protest too much. If you really believed challenges to your doctrine were silly, you wouldn't over-react contstantly and continually. But lets get started; evolution is ridiculous.
Nothing organizes without Mind. Chance DISorganizes.

[unlearner]

"If this style of 'science' ever took hold in U.S. schools, it is safe to say that as a nation we could well be headed for Third World status, along with everything that dire label implies."

But this is what was taught for many years during a time when this nation grew to greatness.

Since evolution has been taught, social institutions have been in decline. Though Americans are richer and have less work than ever before, as a whole, we also are more lazy, dissatisfied, selfish, immoral, dishonest and generally uneducated than ever before.

If we do not get back to the underlying moral principles that made us great, our greatness will also become a thing of the past.

[DannyTN]

Everyone be nice.

You post an article that basically calls doubters of evolution "Ayatolla's" and you want us to be nice? What's the matter, you couldn't find an article that calls us "terrorists" or charge us with killing innocent women and children?

[Gritty]

The only "Ayatollahs" I see represented in this article are "activist judges" imposing their dogmas on the citizens of Georgia.

[Southack]

"no evidence exists to support any theory of evolution except Charles Darwin's."

Actually, the same evidence that supports Darwinism supports Intelligent Design.

Consider, for instance, if an alien society came to a dead Earth and began uncovering autombiles buried in a junkyard. The aliens would notice that the cars were progressively more advanced over time, but that year on year the cars had only minor changes from their earlier variants.

The aliens could then use that physical evidence of the cars buried in layers over more than a century to conclude either that the cars themselves evolved, or that the intelligent designers of the cars evolved.

The physical evidence, after all, would support both theories. Ditto for digging up fossils of animals and plants.

Of course, where Darwinism breaks down is not in the physical evidence or even in the Natural Selection process, but in the probability *math* required for the unaided sequencing of billions of genetic DNA instructions into their precise order (see: A Tiny Mathematical Proof Against Evolution).

In contrast, Intelligent Design holds up remarkably well to that same math. For instance, Intelligent Design precisely and accurately explains why computer programs are sequenced into their precise electronic coding order.

Probability math is still taught in our dilapadated public schools, one presumes, so applying that math to areas of known contention, where said math will show a precise scientific answer, seems like the obvious path.

Sadly, activist judges in Georgia and wild-eyed liberals in Massachusetts don't want such scholarly study to take place. Any attempt to investigate Darwinism with *math* is ruled out of bounds. Evolutionary *theory* must be accepted as fact, per those radicals, and no scientific challenges to said theory are to be permitted.

In this case, even the application of mere sticky notes that said "Evolution is a Theory" are banned by such activists.

Oh my goodness, not those "religiously dogmatic" sticky notes! How will "science" ever survive?! < /mocking! >

[DaGman]

The article is right on. Creationism is a threat to the security and well being of The United States of America. Rest assured that God shakes his head in dismay at the damage that's being done to America by creationists.

[tutstar]

poing

[PhilipFreneau]

>> Judges are conscientiously observing the constitutionally required separation of church and state

There is no such thing as "constitutionally required separation of church and state". The author must be referring to the usurpation of power by the Supreme Court that declared the separation of church and state to be unconstitutional.

In any case, since the author is ignorant of the constitution, there is no need to read further.

[Theo]

Frankly, I've come to the point where I don't care what government schools teach. I'm sending my daughter to a homeschool. Ours.

[evangmlw]

[185JHP]

The perpetrators of the hoax want to be the ones who decide what evidence is. If/when they are allowed to do this, they will state that jibberjabber about "common DNA" is evidence that proves evo. It's nonsense, but they'll do it if they are allowed to. If the laughable weakness of their theory is talked about and exposed, it gets closer to the drain...

[MEGoody]

"A movement to drag the teaching of science in the United States back into the Dark Ages continues to gain momentum".

This is the kind of hyperbolic rhetoric that can make evolutionists appear akin to PETA activists.

[MEGoody]

"A movement to drag the teaching of science in the United States back into the Dark Ages continues to gain momentum".

This is the kind of hyperbolic rhetoric that can make evolutionists appear akin to PETA activists.