Posted on 08/15/2005 9:18:06 AM PDT by hc87
Exactly eighty years after the Scopes "monkey trial" in Dayton, Tennessee, history is about to repeat itself. In a courtroom in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in late September, scientists and creationists will square off about whether and how high school students in Dover, Pennsylvania will learn about biological evolution. One would have assumed that these battles were over, but that is to underestimate the fury (and the ingenuity) of creationists scorned.
The Scopes trial of our day--Kitzmiller, et al v. Dover Area School District et al--began innocuously...
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It's late. I'll let you rethink that one and reformulate in the morning.
I'll ignore the condescension.
There is no controversy in the scientific community. There are just a relatively small number of renegades (as there often are in science, and everywhere else). Their positions are being used to attempt to teach a religious belief in public schools and call it science.
This is an attempt to proselytize.
Sure! Right here on Free Republic. Just type "evolution" in the search box and hundreds will come up.
Were they not placed there at a much later date? Around 1954?
Or...the printing of "IN GOD WE TRUST" on our monies;
Or...The standing and reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance, with "under God", in our public school classrooms;
Or...State law that requires a political offfice holder to be a "born again Christian"(Is that cumpulsory?).
And etc.
What an ignorant, willfully blind, "just so" statement.
Do you believe there is a God?
The Bible gives explicit permission for the taking of slaves, and codifies the treatement of them. Among other things, it says you can't beat a slave so severely that he dies within 24 hours. But it's OK if you beat him to the point of a lingering death. After, all, it's your money your are wasting.
" Or...the printing of "IN GOD WE TRUST" on our monies;
Or...The standing and reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance, with "under God", in our public school classrooms; "
Both of which happened in the 1950's.
" Or...State law that requires a political offfice holder to be a "born again Christian"(Is that cumpulsory?)."
Which state would that be?
Then you, I, and the other 6 Billion+ animals with evolved reason on this planet are free to act in whatever manner we see fit, knowing that the only thing that awaits us is a personal end to our universe and an eternity of nothingness after a few trips around the sun.
A life wihtout hope can be a rather bleak thing, FRiend.
Only time I am aware of these prophecies being fulfilled.
Do you have direct knowledge of others?
Citations please.
For example...The Ten Commandments carved on the Supreme Court's wall (Is marble an imposing stone?);
Aren't the ten commandments of Jewish origin? So Judaism has also been imposed by your definition.
Or...the printing of "IN GOD WE TRUST" on our monies;
Ditto. And if 'God' is used more generically, we could also include Islam and other any other monotheistic faiths.
Or...The standing and reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance, with "under God", in our public school classrooms;
Ditto. Ditto.
Or...State law that requires a political offfice holder to be a "born again Christian".
You've got me there if this has been upheld in the courts. However, in any event, this is a state law, not a federal law applying in the entire United States.
Well said js.
This one is scary if true.
LOL -electability -your anti-religious bigotry cloaked as science is the most unelectable thing I have ever seen on FR... IT is the same as the dimwit liberals -they seem quite electable NOT... The left are idiots EVEN if you agree with them...
Will this naming somehow destroy the theory of evolution?
I don't think so...and likewise with Christianity.
It is true.
We have genetic, cultural and intellectual constraints that limit that.
A life wihtout hope can be a rather bleak thing, FRiend.
It doesn't have to be without hope.
We might as well give it a shot
Please don't tell the MSM about it.
YEC INTREP
The same way multidimensional physics, theoretical mathmatics, astronomy that postulates origins of the universe, "unified" theory physics, etc., are pursued.
Look at everything. Test what you can. Discard only that which is proven false. Develop models and test them. Build better equipment, more ingeius and esoteric devices to gather data. Dream. Explore. Add to the growing list of things we do know.
Newton and other Enlightenment thinkers believed that their explorations into physics would reveal God and His nature. I beleive they were right.
I won't live to live to see it, but I dream of a time when science and religion cherish each other.
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