Posted on 05/24/2005 4:04:48 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
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Good resource there.
I hope this is nice.
I can't imaging anyone still believing that the universe was created only 6000 years ago. It boggles my mind to think that people still think is a credible explanation for the univers.
While I believe in God I still can't believe creationism as it's espoused.
Stick around. They'll be here soon enough.
Ping for later
Ping for later, too
I recall learning about the "Iroquois Creation Myth" in grade-school back in the 1960's. Something about "sky people" dropping to earth from "floating turtles." We learned about the myth as part of the social studies curriculum, not in a science class. That is where creationism should be taught -- in social studies -- not as science. But if we are going to teach creationism in science classes, then we ought to give equal treatment in science classes to the Iroquois Creation Myth if for no reason than both "theories" are similar in many respects and supported by the same amount of scientific evidence.
Why do our schools do so poorly? -- Because of the LACK of religious zealouts in the mix, because of the hyper-immune-disorder-like nature of the educational bureaucracy and infrastructure at rejecting anything with "fire" in it. It's too much discover-your-own-pevic-tolerance and pablum science. All "Lowered Expectations" in the words of the late night comedy gag.
Dear evo-zealots: If you truly care about science and evolutionary theory, you will demand that creation and religious moral absolutes be allowed BACK in the classroom. For it is from that group of tough-minded teachers and teachings that the minds and spirit of great young scientists will be forged and evoked. From which the next Stephen Jay Gould and Stephen Hawking will come.
Without it, you are lost more than we.
What is pevic tolerance?
Our brainwashed little supernaturalists won't be able to compete in the real world?
Is that natural selection at work?
Belly button.
Oohh. Your sentence would've sounded better if you just said "navel-gazing".. Whatever the case may be, people who cannot find wonder in the natural world but instead require supernaturalism to 'fire' them up are not likely to become scientists in any event.
Good teachers have a lot of "preacher" in them. Most "scientists" would make terrible teachers.
That hypothesis is clearly and overwhelmingly refuted by history, past and present.
A pevic is an evolved pupik. A crossbreed of pelvic and pubic.
There you go talking about your alternate reality again..
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