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Frist backs 'intelligent design' teaching
AP ^ | 8/19/5 | ROSE FRENCH

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.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 109th; anothercrevothread; crevolist; enoughalready; frist; intelligentdesign; notagain; panderingtoignorance; scienceeducation; senatorfrist
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To: longshadow

400. Prime!


401 posted on 08/20/2005 4:48:15 PM PDT by PatrickHenry (Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. The List-O-Links is at my homepage.)
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To: b_sharp

No, but I once repaired cryptographic equipment in the Army, and had to set the codes every day. And repaired teletypes.


402 posted on 08/20/2005 4:48:31 PM PDT by js1138 (Science has it all: the fun of being still, paying attention, writing down numbers...)
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To: b_sharp

AAARRRRGGGHHHHH!!!!


403 posted on 08/20/2005 4:49:12 PM PDT by PatrickHenry (Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. The List-O-Links is at my homepage.)
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Well, this thread certainly de-evolved into juvenile forms of discussion.


404 posted on 08/20/2005 4:50:48 PM PDT by D-fendr
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To: D-fendr

Not enough special energy.


405 posted on 08/20/2005 4:55:57 PM PDT by js1138 (Science has it all: the fun of being still, paying attention, writing down numbers...)
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To: PatrickHenry

You are keeping track I hope. I will come to collect at some point.


BTW, you missed an 'A'.


406 posted on 08/20/2005 4:57:21 PM PDT by b_sharp (Science adjusts theories to fit evidence, creationism distorts evidence to fit the Bible.)
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To: b_sharp
I will come to collect at some point.

You'll have to do your collecting in the mop closet, because you will never get out of the janitorial pool.

407 posted on 08/20/2005 5:04:41 PM PDT by PatrickHenry (Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. The List-O-Links is at my homepage.)
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To: b_sharp

Nope. I spent several years as an editor. Old habits die hard.


408 posted on 08/20/2005 5:07:58 PM PDT by Junior (Just because the voices in your head tell you to do things doesn't mean you have to listen to them)
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To: Right Wing Professor
"Your insults and name-calling don't bother me one bit."

Yeah, they do.

You're right. They make me pity you.
The idea that you would demean yourself with such ugly displays on a public message board is sad.

As Jesus said; What comes out of the mouth defiles a man. It shows what's in his heart.

As I said, having been an atheist and evolutionist, I am familiar with the bitterness and emptiness that leads you to lash out at all who disagree with you.
And I forgive you for it.

409 posted on 08/20/2005 5:15:47 PM PDT by Jorge
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To: Jorge
So what kind of bitterness and emptiness motivates the anti-evolutionist?


--> The Cult of Evolution – the Opiate of the Atheists
 

Posted by Sir Francis Dashwood to ***********
On News/Activism 08/17/2005 11:31:27 PM EDT · 705 of 770

Go suck a shotgun...


--> The Cult of Evolution – the Opiate of the Atheists
  Posted by Sir Francis Dashwood to **********
On News/Activism 08/17/2005 2:11:59 AM EDT · 496 of 770

Stuff it homo...

 


--> The Cult of Evolution – the Opiate of the Atheists
  Posted by Sir Francis Dashwood to **********
On News/Activism 08/17/2005 10:06:57 AM EDT · 519 of 770

morality is a delusion of the religious morons

Morality is based on the presupposition that some higher power defines what is correct for human behavior...

Rights? Define a right and the origin of such an idea...

As far as ********* is concerned, he is just a Marxist troll, f--k him... I don't know why he brought you into it except, since he is so weak, maybe he thought he might get some support...


410 posted on 08/20/2005 5:32:27 PM PDT by js1138 (Science has it all: the fun of being still, paying attention, writing down numbers...)
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To: PatrickHenry
400. Prime!

SWING.... and a MISS!

411 posted on 08/20/2005 5:36:27 PM PDT by longshadow
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To: PatrickHenry
"You'll have to do your collecting in the mop closet, because you will never get out of the janitorial pool.

Looks like I'll just have to start a union.

412 posted on 08/20/2005 5:36:39 PM PDT by b_sharp (Science adjusts theories to fit evidence, creationism distorts evidence to fit the Bible.)
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To: Junior
"Nope. I spent several years as an editor. Old habits die hard."

I was just trying to lighten the mood. :-P

Perhaps I should get you to edit my posts so they are a bit more intelligible.

413 posted on 08/20/2005 5:41:45 PM PDT by b_sharp (Science adjusts theories to fit evidence, creationism distorts evidence to fit the Bible.)
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To: longshadow
Never up, never in.
414 posted on 08/20/2005 5:42:26 PM PDT by PatrickHenry (Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. The List-O-Links is at my homepage.)
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To: js1138
So what kind of bitterness and emptiness motivates the anti-evolutionist?

Yikes! Those are some ugly quotes from so-called creationists.

In a way I consider it even worse when creationists display such hatefulness toward evolutionists.
Because they are misrepresenting the spirit of light that is supposed to come with believing God.
They should know better.

415 posted on 08/20/2005 5:46:28 PM PDT by Jorge
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To: Jorge

To be completely upfront about this, I don't know what religion this poster professes, if any. I only know that he opposes evolution, and that he was not criticised for these posts on the thread where they occurred.


416 posted on 08/20/2005 6:09:30 PM PDT by js1138 (Science has it all: the fun of being still, paying attention, writing down numbers...)
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To: b_sharp

Ping, Spalding, McGregor, Nike


417 posted on 08/20/2005 7:12:13 PM PDT by b_sharp (Science adjusts theories to fit evidence, creationism distorts evidence to fit the Bible.)
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To: js1138
To be completely upfront about this, I don't know what religion this poster professes, if any.

The original Francis Dashwood was thought to be a Satanist by some of his contemporaries. He probably wasn't - drunken lout was more his style, but you can google it up if you like ;)

418 posted on 08/20/2005 9:11:49 PM PDT by general_re ("Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith, but in doubt." - Reinhold Niebuhr)
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To: Lord_Baltar
Taxes, these "Scientists" you mention, are they also the ones that reinforced in your head that the Sun, the moon, the stars, and the rest of the galaxy orbit the Earth?

No. Those were my science teachers in public school.

419 posted on 08/20/2005 11:22:47 PM PDT by taxesareforever (Government is running amuck)
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To: itsahoot

No I am not. I am familiar with the other names you mentioned and I agree with you about the move that is on. Doesn't make me a happy camper seeing the issue clouded.


420 posted on 08/20/2005 11:28:49 PM PDT by taxesareforever (Government is running amuck)
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