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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As I suspected, you have nothing to say.
To use your logic, I don't see then how natural selection could have explained the existence of said pandas as well...how could such a clumsy animal with such fragile offspring survived the savage evolutionary surgery of the Natural selective process?
I asked a simple question and so far every single evolutionist is doing whatever they can to avoid answering it.
What is the threat?
Darby, Pa. is, well, something unique in the annals of history.
Anyway, the Dover election just shows that many will put thinking aside just to avoid being called stupid.
Or do they only exist in Fantasyland?
Do you or don't you accept stats as valid science?
SO, got any useful statistics handy? Got any idea what they purport to analyze or what they purport to demonstrate?
Or are you going to rhetorically dance around the question all year?
Do you object to applying stats to evolution?
You really are dancing very hard to avoid this question, aren't you?
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Of course not, no scientist does. However, every tool has its limits of applicability and a stupid application is worse than useless.
You really are dancing very hard to avoid this question, aren't you?
No, it's a stupid question. In fact, your "question" continues to demonstrate that you know nothing of the scientific method, science in general, or scientists themselves.
But no scientist ignores a useful tool, soooo ....
Come on now, show us what you got. Show us what every scientist has missed for the last 150 years. Show us how you will win a Nobel prize.
Apparently at least one university thinks stats is a science. Maybe someone ought to call them and tell them its a tool and not a science.
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Then you think stats has nothing to offer the science of evolution?
Come on, Mr. Troll, put up or shut up.
Put up or shut up.
Why argue with someone who refuses to agree to the definition of terms?
If you wrongly claim that stats is not a science then its pointless for us to go beyond that, isn't it?
Numbers on the table, please.
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You too think that stats has no place in evolution? Amazing.
So, you're saying archaeopteryx and all of that is just "fabrication"? Any support for that assertion?
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