Posted on 11/09/2005 4:31:43 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
(AP) Revisiting a topic that exposed Kansas to nationwide ridicule six years ago, the state Board of Education approved science standards for public schools Tuesday that cast doubt on the theory of evolution.
The board's 6-4 vote, expected for months, was a victory for intelligent design advocates who helped draft the standards. Intelligent design holds that the universe is so complex that it must have been created by a higher power.
Critics of the proposed language charged that it was an attempt to inject creationism into public schools in violation of the separation between church and state.
The board's vote is likely to heap fresh national criticism on Kansas and cause many scientists to see the state as backward. Current state standards treat evolution as well-established — a view also held by national science groups
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Superstition? I think not.
The first chapter (+ a few) in book of genesis finishes with paraphrased- "these are the generations of heaven and earth"..
The statement is fully inclusive, it describes all the generations.
I maintain that we are in the 6th day of creation and that when Christ returns we will see the end of the 6th day and it will be called GOOD and the lord will rest on the 7th day.
Whenever you would like to actually attempt to deal with the issue of teaching intelligent design and creationism to Kansan children in schools instead of their church of choice, without quitting or throwing up diversionary exercises of your own, please be my guest, you have my reply link.
Show me where I have introduced any philosophy, religion or the bible into it?
For many years claims were made by strict creationists that human footprints or "giant man tracks" occur alongside dinosaur tracks in the limestone beds of the Paluxy River, near Glen Rose Texas. If true, such a finding would dramatically contradict the conventional geologic timetable, which holds that humans did not appear on earth until over 60 million years after the dinosaurs became extinct. However, the "man track" claims have not stood up to close scientific scrutiny, and have been abandoned even by most creationists.http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/paluxy.html
No problem with your belief. Just keep it out of science classes.
Check this out, about halfway down the page.
http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/dont_use.asp
SO let me get this straight, I was replying to somebody else who is an evolutionist and you jumped in on my question, which had nothing to do with the topic other than it concerned evolution, and now you want me to get back into an argument we never had because you think its saving face?
The last I looked Kansas isnt offering creationism, ID to totally seperate things. If you feel that children in Kansas and the world are better to not have there knowledge expanded, then thats your loss.
ugghh sorry for the bad grammar and spellings.
Teaching the children of Kansas so-called intelligent design is not expanding their knowledge because it steals time away from teaching evolution in the same way that teaching them about the Flying Sphaghetti Monster in their churches would take time away from their religion.
Now, with your kind, concerned advice by way of AiG, are you suggesting that the findings are not true?
I appreciate your thoughtfully humorous recommendation. Or at least, I found humor in it.
For comparative evaluation:
http://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=view&ID=81
I was just pointing out that there are some bits of nonsense that even creationists can't claim with a straight face.
How much time do you think kids actually spend on evolution in school? Its not very much at all. So to say spending 5 minutes, an hour or two hours on ID is stealing time from evolution and that would be somehow damaging, is beyond me. Sounds to me like its Scopes in reverse.
Changing the subject, you mean. So I take it you don't plan to support your earlier list at all. Typical.
Do you have a problem discussing probabilities of evolution ?
Or are you afraid such questions would undermine evolution too much?
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