Posted on 09/20/2005 7:02:45 AM PDT by Right Wing Professor
ITHACA, N.Y. - Lenore Durkee, a retired biology professor, was volunteering as a docent at the Museum of the Earth here when she was confronted by a group of seven or eight people, creationists eager to challenge the museum exhibitions on evolution.
They peppered Dr. Durkee with questions about everything from techniques for dating fossils to the second law of thermodynamics, their queries coming so thick and fast that she found it hard to reply.
After about 45 minutes, "I told them I needed to take a break," she recalled. "My mouth was dry."
That encounter and others like it provided the impetus for a training session here in August. Dr. Durkee and scores of other volunteers and staff members from the museum and elsewhere crowded into a meeting room to hear advice from the museum director, Warren D. Allmon, on ways to deal with visitors who reject settled precepts of science on religious grounds.
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Even the last holdouts now accept anthropogenic global warming; it's just a question of degree. The President, and many Americans, don't accept evolution. So what exactly is your problem with what she said, other than the fact she's editorializing a bit?
Nice prime.
Phillip Johnson is a trial lawyer.
Haha - I guess I didn't word my question clearly. What I meant to ask was what sort of things did the Creationists object to in a math class?
Denton has written an entire book on the inevitability of evolution.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0684845091/102-5475944-0624957?v=glance
Understanding Evolution. Univ. of California.
Statement on the Teaching of Evolution. By the American Astronomical Society.
Some extra info on that last link: AAS denounces "intelligent design".
Another service of Darwin Central, the conspiracy that cares.
Just getting warmed up for a shot at the big one.
Youse guys funny.
More likely they got the list os 10 questions creationists never listen to the answers about from some Moonie.
More and more historians are turning away from the false religion of civilwarism.
I read about a poll in which 50% of college students did not know in which century this alleged war occurred in.
VERTEBRATE EMBRYOS. Why do textbooks use drawings of similarities in vertebrate embryos as evidence for their common ancestry -- even though biologists have known for over a century that vertebrate embryos are not most similar in their early stages, and the drawings are faked?
OK, how about photographs?
Young, untampered minds are able to put false religions aside.
The scientific case against Atom Bomb-ism
Or, Creationist Dialectics Applied to Hiroshima
1. Atomic theory is "just a theory."
2. No one has ever seen an atom, and certainly not one that explodes.
3. The second law of thermodynamics prohibits atom bombs.
4. There are no atoms mentioned in the bible.
5. Even if individual atoms decay, that's micro-fission. There's no proof for macro-fission.
6. Atomic theory leads to fear, depression, sexual promiscuity, and world domination.
7. There is no evidence that a so-called atom bomb destroyed Hiroshima.
8. Just because a so-called bomb dropped when the city blew up proves nothing. Correlation does not equal causality.
9. Many scientists believe that Hiroshima may have been destroyed by an encounter with Rodan.
10. Rodan's existence is well-documented and has never been disproved.
11. Atom bomb-ism is a product of materialism and a Godless, naturalistic worldview.
12. It takes more faith to believe in Atom bomb-ism than it does to believe in the Tooth Fairy.
13. More and more scientists are turning to "Rodan Theory" (RT). Atom bomb-ism is a theory in crisis!
Atomic explosion or Rodan? "Teach the controversy!"
Lets break it down Professor.
1. Please provide a quote from President Bush denying that evolution happens.
2. Please provide a quote from President Bush stating that human activity has no effect on Earths climate.
3. Please provide a quote from President Bush not accepting any other established ideas of science, whatever the hell they are.
And to save time, lets agree that failing to provide such quotes, which don't exist, this woman is a story teller in the tradition of the Brothers Grimm, OK?
Oh yeah, well wait till I write the PatrickHenrybshrpetaletal-ism creation story.
In essense churches get back from the government the full amount they would pay in tax - if not expemt.
Which puts them ahead of most taxpayers.
Indeed, no. And the plot to end the Vietnam War was, in fact, thwarted by blowing up the library at Stony Brook. I'm not sure of the connection myself, but there you go.
:^)
Now I'd work on the other way around. Tax churches, companies, organizations, and exempt individuals entirely.
I see. Unless you know where the sky came from, you're not really sure whether it rained yesterday. Nor could you begin to estimate the chance for rain tomorrow. It seems that this "problem" you're describing is proving troublesome for you to grasp - good luck with it. Really.
I've never seen Dembski take a firm position either way.
ORIGIN OF LIFE. Why do textbooks claim that the 1953 Miller-Urey experiment shows how life's building blocks may have formed on the early Earth -- when conditions on the early Earth were probably nothing like those used in the experiment, and the origin of life remains a mystery?We lately had a thread on this one. Conditions on the early Earth probably included a reducing atmosphere after all and were much more like the conditions of Miller-Urey than long thought. Another creo talking point down the drain.
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