Posted on 01/29/2005 6:54:41 PM PST by PatrickHenry
"Don't teach any of them, including evolution, in the public schools to elementary kids."
Agreed, as long as the Christian version of creation is also not taught.
Let the parents and the churches instill their chosen 'creation' belief system into the child(ren).
You have a nice day too. I am comfortable in my mere dust final exit. I accept it. That ultimate final end does not cause me a moment on this mortal coil of anguish. And so it goes.
Fortunately, right now Box and her Chappaquiddick KKK buddies are getting the attention.
Darwinists comprise the current Flat Earth Society.
Hey, Patrick, wishing you all the best. Maybe we will see eye to eye someday, before it's too late...
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And all so some hucksters can make some easy dough on videos.
You got that right.
Exactly. The Evo's have exactly the same reaction that any other special interest group has. They assume and act like anything bad for their cause is bad for the republicans, when they are the minority and the exact opposite is true.
“I’ve dug up shark teeth that go back 67m years to the Cretaceous period when the sea spread from Texas all the way to Canada,” he said proudly. “I’ve seen mammoth teeth, camel teeth and large arrowheads belonging to early man. It would be pretty hard to explain that in the Bible.”
And...how does he know that the shark teeth are 67m years old? Answer: he has no idea how old they are.
No. The parents have the responsibility to oversee the education of their child. If the teaching is in accordance with the parents wishes, then it's fine.
But there is absolutely no justification to use public schools and public funds to push evolution to elementary kids when the majority of American's do not believe in evolution and do not want their kids taught that.
And you once again equate a scientific theory, backed up by multiple, independant lines of evidence, and 150+ years of research and study which all reputable biologists consider to be sound with religious mythology, even to the point of banning ALL of the above because you can't handle reality.
And while you're at it, you'll make the conservative movement and the Republican party look like complete fools.
Let's not be coy, here...if you actually got the TOE removed from schools, you'd then be screaming to add ID/creationism to replace it shortly after.
And thus, the current slide of American students in math and sciences would accelerate apace.
Wonderful. You hurt not only conservatism, but the Republican party and ultimately the country, just to have your religious beliefs taught as fact.
"Theocons." Now I'll have to add, "But I'm NOT an idiot" when I tell people I'm a Republican.
I bet that Karl Rove cringes and reaches for the Glenfiddich when he reads stuff like this. Especially since it's promoted by a group of voters he considers pretty unreliable.
And as Theodosius Dobzhansky said, nothing in biology makes sense without it.
It was in his famous essay, Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution that he wrote:
One of the great thinkers of our age, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, wrote the following: "Is evolution a theory, a system, or a hypothesis? It is much more, it is a general postulate to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems much henceforward bow and which they must satisfy in order to be thinkable and true. Evolution is a light which illuminates all facts, a trajectory which all lines of thought must follow, this is what evolution is." Of course, some scientists, as well as some philosophers and theologians, disagree with some parts of Teilhard’s teachings; the acceptance of his worldview falls short of universal. But there is no doubt at all that Teilhard was a truly and deeply religious man and that Christianity was the cornerstone of his worldview. Moreover, in his worldview science and faith were not segregated in watertight compartments, as they are with so many people. They were harmoniously fitting parts of his worldview. Teilhard was a creationist, but one who understood that the Creation is realized in this world by means of evolution.
So Bush thinks evolutionary theory is about planetary cosmology?
I'm convinced. Anyone that can look at one photo and determine that the mammoths went extinct because he had a flat penis is OK in my book! He then shows a photo of a baby mammoth. Er, wait a minute ... Mammoths couldn't reproduce because he had a flat penis ....
Students coming out of private schools that teach both evoltuion and creation/ID, don't lag behind students out of schools that teach just evolution. So it's not that it's so bad for kids to learn how evolution tries to explain everything and also what the major areas are in which some people doubt evolution is true. It turns out this whole thing is a power grab. But, as Patrick Henry said above, if we have private and home schools, these problems will work themselves out. After all, some private schools teach only evolution and some teach ideas besides evolution, and the sky is not falling...
I've been hearing this for years. Perhaps those saying so were only prescient.
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