Posted on 05/09/2005 8:22:16 AM PDT by anguish
EvoPing. Nothing new about the Kansas lunacy, but at least some interesting info on the rapid speciation of cichlid fish.
"Yet despite the advances we have made in the field, there remains a certain intransigence towards accepting as unquestioned scientific fact the theory of evolution as it pertains to the development of humankind."
Gee, I didn't realize the theory of evolution had become "unquestioned scientific fact". In that case, never mind.
Thanks for the ping. Not much news in this one, really. We've had a few recent threads on the Kansas situation. If nothing else turns up this morning, I'll ping the list.
Oh, geesh. You guys haven't resolved this by now?
Yes, and in Galileo's day it was unquestioned scientific fact that the sun has no spots.
Darwinism has become what its adherents profess to loathe: quasi-religious dogma that is too brittle and weak to withstand critical challenge so it presses the prevailing authorities of the day to silence and forbid honest inquiry.
Long ago, before there were any people, the world was young and water covered everything. The earth was a great island floating above the seas, suspended by four rawhide ropes representing the four sacred directions. It hung down from the crystal sky. There were no people, but the animals lived in a home above the rainbow. Needing space, they sent Water Beetle to search for room under the seas. Water Beetle dove deep and brought up mud that spread quickly, turning into land that was flat and too soft and wet for the animals to live on.Grandfather Buzzard was sent to see if the land had hardened. When he flew over the earth, he found the mud had become solid; he flapped in for a closer look. The wind from his wings created valleys and mountains, and that is why the Cherokee territory has so many mountains today.
As the earth stiffened, the animals came down from the rainbow. It was still dark. They needed light, so they pulled the sun out from behind the rainbow, but it was too bright and hot. A solution was urgently needed. The shamans were told to place the sun higher in the sky. A path was made for it to travel--from east to west--so that all inhabitants could share in the light.
The plants were placed upon the earth. The Creator told the plants and animals to stay awake for seven days and seven nights. Only a few animals managed to do so, including the owls and mountain lions, and they were rewarded with the power to see in the dark. Among the plants, only the cedars, spruces, and pines remained awake. The Creator told these plants that they would keep their hair during the winter, while the other plants would lose theirs.
People were created last. The women were able to have babies every seven days. They reproduced so quickly that the Creator feared the world would soon become too crowded. So after that the women could have only one child per year, and it has been that way ever since.
/sarcasm
Dang, I hear flute music.
Argument by straw indian?
Ping us when it has evolved into a trout.
Or a darwinist.
Prediction: This thread will reach over 400 replies, yet no minds will be changed on either side.
:)
This article is much more balanced & realistic than the "conservative equals anti-science" crud that's been appearing in the mainstream liberal papers lately.
Yep.
But, we will see much vitriol, name-calling, and smugness.
The purpose of Creationism is to destroy the Conservative Movement.
If you go back far enough, we and the chimps share a common ancestor. My father's father's father's father, going back maybe a half million generations - about five million years - was an ape."
Walter Cronkite, Ape Man: The Story of Human Evolution
To the best of my knowledge, All political parties hate science, because sooner or later, science contradicts something that politicians want to promote.
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Once upon a time--a mere week ago in cosmic terms--mere matter, flotsam and jetsam from a collapsed and spent star, was rolling chaotically and randomly through spacetime and suddenly thought to itself, "I know! I will coalesce and evolve into life!"
And so it did.
Richard Dawkins will explain the magic of the gaps to you just as soon as he finishes his most current character assassination and ad hominem broadsides on religious believers who refuse to convert to his faith.
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