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Museums take up evolution challenge (because "biology classes have faltered")
Chicago Tribune ^
| 16 Oct 05
| Lisa Anderson
Posted on 10/16/2005 12:02:32 PM PDT by gobucks
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To: guitarist
"It is absolutely true that if we evolved as popularly claimed, then there are no moral absolutes and we are an accidental mish-mash of carbon."
So YOU say.
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posted on
10/16/2005 5:19:26 PM PDT
by
CarolinaGuitarman
("There is a grandeur in this view of life...")
To: From many - one.
Good catch. No need to wait 20 years.
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posted on
10/16/2005 5:21:36 PM PDT
by
js1138
(Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
To: From many - one.
Oh, yes, and how do you thing variations occur in populations?
Take moths for instance, within a population some were lighter and some were darker. When the trees were lighter the lighter ones blended in better, and the birds ate the darker ones. When the trees became darker the lighter moths were easy pickings. The population in this case shifted from predominately being lighter to being darker. Over time the variation in the population was noted. In this case the change in the population occurred because the birds ate more of one shade of the moths and the darker ones were more likely to reproduce.
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posted on
10/16/2005 5:21:36 PM PDT
by
Mark was here
(How can they be called "Homeless" if their home is a field?.)
To: Ma3lst0rm
but these same proponents are more concerned that children may be exposed to thinking about the possibility of alternatives to accepted evolutionary thinking than presenting an accurate account of current research into evolution. Competition is always not welcome to monopolists.
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posted on
10/16/2005 5:36:51 PM PDT
by
gobucks
(http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/classics/students/Ribeiro/Laocoon.htm)
To: Mrs Mark
If life is just an accidental mish-mash of carbon, whats the big whoop in aborting an unwanted baby?...or starving and dehydrating a woman to death, for that matter?
I totally agree with your assessment. Great comment.
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posted on
10/16/2005 5:39:03 PM PDT
by
Prov3456
Harry HoudiniDidit placemark
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posted on
10/16/2005 5:41:38 PM PDT
by
dread78645
(Sorry Mr. Franklin, We couldn't keep it.)
To: gobucks
Competition is always not welcome to monopolists. translation: "If they learn about science, they might not come to Sunday School"
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posted on
10/16/2005 5:43:49 PM PDT
by
WildTurkey
(When will CBS Retract and Apologize?)
To: Mrs Mark; Havoc
You are right, I am setting the record for being wrong. No. I think Havoc has you beat by a mile.
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posted on
10/16/2005 5:47:17 PM PDT
by
WildTurkey
(When will CBS Retract and Apologize?)
To: Mrs Mark
I'm sorry, perhaps I did not express my question clearly.
You explained a possible -result- of variation. My question refers to how the variation happens in the first place.
To: js1138
Y'know, it's not the fact that they agree that's so bad, it's their willingness to ally themselves.
That's downright scary.
To: Mrs Mark
I like how spirited your response to these 'conservatives' who so longingly and free spiritedly trust what the leftist gov't funded whackos at leftist pantheons are doing w/ 'science'.
Your dog is absolutely a cutie.
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posted on
10/16/2005 6:02:29 PM PDT
by
gobucks
(http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/classics/students/Ribeiro/Laocoon.htm)
To: gobucks
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" Arthur C Clarke.
And to CreaIDs barely able to understand the operation of a hammer, all science looks like magic.
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posted on
10/16/2005 6:56:31 PM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
(Paging Nehemiah Scudder:the Crazy Years are peaking. America is ready for you.)
To: gobucks
Wow. Evolution is being compared to magic? That is a step in the right direction...."I carried with me some promethean matches, which I ignited by biting; it was thought so wonderful that a man should strike fire with his teeth, that it was usual to collect the whole family to see it"
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"When he read, however, my passport, which began with "El Naturalista Don Carlos," his respect and civility were as unbounded as his suspicions ahd been before."
Charles Darwin, in South America
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posted on
10/16/2005 7:05:03 PM PDT
by
dr_lew
To: Rudder; Mrs Mark
Are you familiar with the guy who was fired by Scientific American for being a Christian?
No, I'm not. Are you not referring to the guy at the Smithsonian. No she's not. This is a Creat folktale from the distant past.
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posted on
10/16/2005 7:32:43 PM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
(Paging Nehemiah Scudder:the Crazy Years are peaking. America is ready for you.)
To: gobucks
i guess the big question is whether the museums are going to design their displays very carefully or just throw something together to see what happens over time...
teeman
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posted on
10/16/2005 7:40:09 PM PDT
by
teeman8r
(one in a million... so there's 6000 people somewhere on earth just like me...)
To: teeman8r
LOL.
You know, if the exhibits become 'permanent', doesn't that make a "museum" something else? A war memorial perhaps?
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posted on
10/16/2005 7:47:28 PM PDT
by
gobucks
(http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/classics/students/Ribeiro/Laocoon.htm)
To: CarolinaGuitarman
Evolutionary theory--non-living matter to man in 4 billion years--and belief in Almighty God are incompatible. Take your pick.
To: guitarist
"Evolutionary theory--non-living matter to man in 4 billion years--and belief in Almighty God are incompatible. Take your pick."
1) Evolutionary theory does not deal with the origins of the universe, or of life. So your scientific ignorance is immense.
2) It is just YOUR assertion that belief in God is incompatible with evolution (which you have already shown you know nothing about). Most evolutionists believe in God.
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posted on
10/16/2005 8:02:15 PM PDT
by
CarolinaGuitarman
("There is a grandeur in this view of life...")
To: guitarist
Evolutionary theory--non-living matter to man in 4 billion years--and belief in Almighty God are incompatible. Take your pick.I know, You pick "God did it".
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posted on
10/16/2005 8:31:33 PM PDT
by
WildTurkey
(When will CBS Retract and Apologize?)
To: js1138
Well the "Kansas Conservatives" did hire a spokesperson for Harun Yahya to give a presentation.
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posted on
10/16/2005 8:38:35 PM PDT
by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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