Posted on 08/19/2005 1:02:07 PM PDT by SmithL
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Echoing similar comments from President Bush, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said "intelligent design" should be taught in public schools alongside evolution.
Frist, R-Tenn., spoke to a Rotary Club meeting Friday and told reporters afterward that students need to be exposed to different ideas, including intelligent design.
"I think today a pluralistic society should have access to a broad range of fact, of science, including faith," Frist said.
Frist, a doctor who graduated from Harvard Medical School, said exposing children to both evolution and intelligent design "doesn't force any particular theory on anyone. I think in a pluralistic society that is the fairest way to go about education and training people for the future."
The theory of intelligent design says life on earth is too complex to have developed through evolution, implying that a higher power must have had a hand in creation. Nearly all scientists dismiss it as a scientific theory, and critics say it's nothing more than religion masquerading as science.
Bush recently told a group of Texas reporters that intelligent design and evolution should both be taught in schools "so people can understand what the debate is about."
That comment sparked criticism from opponents, including Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean, who called Bush "anti-science."
Frist, who is considering a presidential campaign in 2008, recently angered some conservatives by bucking Bush policy on embryonic stem cell research, voicing his support for expanded research on the subject.
Frist said his decision to endorse stem cell research was "a matter of science," but he said there was no conflict between his position on stem cell research and his position on intelligent design.
"To me, I see no disconnect between that and stem cell research," Frist said. "I base my beliefs on stem cell research both on science and my faith.
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Come on now, you'll have to do better than that now ;-) After all, the great god RAH has spoken...
All hail the silly invectives that evolutionists must use to support their absurd cult. They are incapable of actual thought or intelligent discourse.
All hail the great god RAH, he has spoken that evolution is the true religion!
All bow down and worship...
Awwwww; it appears he ran out of crayons.
See, your problem is that the second law doesn't say what you apparently think it says. The second law does not distinguish between "random" and "nonrandom" energy. Energy is energy, as someone else has already pointed out. Punch here and then feel free to explain where "random" and "nonrandom" energy are lurking in there.
However, since you seem somewhat reasonable, how about your postulate on exactly how evolution fits into the Second Law?
It's perfectly in accord with it. The earth isn't a closed system, so decreasing entropy is not forbidden by the second law. If you consider the entire universe to ba a closed system, then the second law only says that over time, the total entropy of the entire system will increase, but it doesn't say anything about entropy at some specific place and time - local decreases in entropy are perfectly allowable by the second law. That's how you get quartz crystals and snowflakes and stars and planets and so forth. All it takes is energy, and the second law doesn't care whether it's random or nonrandom, if that even means anything.
Not only can we not spell or type, we are unable to modify the laws of nature to conform to our fantasies.
That makes your very special, even exceptional.
Man, I STILL can't type.
I think we'll call this the "Special" Second Law.
I think the "'Wildly Elliptical' Second Law" sounds more apropo....
;-)
Maybe, but my version can be used by special educators.
Thomson also calculated the age of the earth from its cooling rate and concluded that it was too short to fit with Lyell's theory of gradual geological change or Charles Darwin's theory of the evolution of animals though natural selection.
When Newton published his laws of motion and gravity, Halley used them to predict the return of the famous comet. When the comet arrived on time, it was considered to "prove" the validity of Newton's equations.
So here we have a case where a geologist and and a biologist calculate an age of the earth that is vastly more accurate than anything proposed by physics. This is not a trivial accomplishment. This is a physical prediction based on observed rates of change. It should be mentioned when nitwits charge that evolution is not falsifiable.
You gotta check out this thread. At least this set of 100 posts.
Thanks for the correction.
"All hail the energy god, RAH, all fall down and worship because the evolutionist pronounces that it is so...
(and in a mind-dulled, low monotone, vacuous chant)
Energy is energy. Deal with it. The great god RAH has spoken.
Energy is energy. Deal with it. The great god RAH has spoken.
Energy is energy. Deal with it. The great god RAH has spoken.
Energy is energy. Deal with it. The great god RAH has spoken.
etc., ad infinitum"
Don't stroke out on us now, we still might need a laugh or two on a latter thread.
Are you familiar with Chick Missler's ministry? khouse.org
Don't stroke out on us now, we still might need a laugh or two on a latter thread.
"I've given up, there is no intelligent life here :-) "
<<< biting my lip. Won't say it...nope.... :)
We will miss you when you are gone, but not your advertisements for your website. I will personally miss your spell checking. I apparently need it.
Your version of the Second Law has brightened an otherwise miserable day. I have been itching from an outbreak of shingles, and you have helped distract me from it.
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