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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This would be the point where you support your contention that some or all of the things you've listed are "fabrications", perhaps by...oh, I don't know, providing some evidence of their fabricated nature. Something like that. Something other than your say-so, anyway. Rotsa ruck.
So you are saying since you cant please everyone please no one?
There is absolutely NO way that the Kansas government schools can come to a solution this is non-neutral politically, culturally, or religiously.>>>
Then you do not understand intelligent design.
This has nothing to do with the issue of whether Kansas equips its children for the future by teaching creationism and/or intelligent design in schools instead of in church.
However I point out that historical (written) records are spotty, and the period of time between when written records began to be kept and the arbitrary date of 100,000 years ago that you chose is much longer than historical time.
In that 100,000 years there was an ice age.
Teaching so called intelligent design is not teaching science. The truth is that science is finding more and more answers all the time and filling in more and more gaps.
heres a little bit of an article I found
Einstein's physics: a violation of church/state separation?
Anthony Flew's Deism is a little different from Jefferson's and Madison's Deism. Anthony Flew said he believes in Einstein's God. Einstein said in 1929 and was quoted by the New York Times, "I believe in Spinoza's god who reveals Himself in orderly harmony that exists, not a God who concerns himself with the fate of human beings" (source: Albert Einstein Scientist, edited by Paul Schilipp 1970). Spinoza was a rationalist philosopher and a pantheist. He believed that everything is interconnected within one gigantic system and that this system and everything it contains is "God." Monotheistic religions and traditional Deism sharply differentiate between Creator and creation. Spinoza, Einstein, and Flew make no distinction between God and the cosmos. Intelligent design science brought Flew to Einstein's impersonal pantheistic God. It did not bring him to a personal faith in a personal God or to anything remotely resembling a religion.
http://www.renewamerica.us/analyses/050818hutchison.htm
Ok you give up. Fine with me.
No, you gave up. I declined to fight your strawman or go chasing down some diversionary rathole you pointed at that you were never willing to explore.
Thank you. Just to comment on Jefferson's Deism--he rejected revelation, but thought that Christian morality could be descerned in nature. That is he subscribed to a kind of natural law morality. Thus he thought of the Christian religion as something to be supported because it provided men with a guide to good behavior. So he is more like Locke than Spinoza.
But back to the main point: Christians ought not to confuse ID with creationism, which IS a relgious doctrine.
For examples:
Lucy
I'll take a whack at this one.
AL 288-1, "Lucy", Australopithecus afarensis Discovered by Donald Johanson and Tom Gray in 1974 at Hadar in Ethiopia (Johanson and Edey 1981; Johanson and Taieb 1976). Its age is about 3.2 million years. Lucy was an adult female of about 25 years. About 40% of her skeleton was found, and her pelvis, femur (the upper leg bone) and tibia show her to have been bipedal. She was about 107 cm (3'6") tall (small for her species) and about 28 kg (62 lbs) in weight.
In 1987, creationist Tom Willis accused Donald Johanson of fraud, claiming that the skeleton known as "Lucy" consisted of bones that had been found at two sites about 2.5 km (1.5 miles) apart. Willis had actually confused two separate finds which belong to the same species. (This was in spite of the fact that a best-selling book (Johanson and Edey 1981) has photos of both fossils: AL 129-1 is a right knee, while Lucy has a right femur and a left tibia.) This was a spectacular error which could hardly have been made by anyone who had done the most elementary research, but that didn't stop many other creationists from picking up the claim and repeating it. For a full history of this claim, read the talk.origins knee-joint FAQ file (Lippard 1997).
Creationists rarely address the issue of why australopithecines have a foramen magnum at the bottom of the skull. Gish (1985) criticizes Dart's reasoning that the Taung baby walked upright, based on the position of its foramen magnum. Gish correctly states that the position of the foramen magnum is closer in juvenile apes and humans than it is in adults (in apes, it moves backwards during growth), and concludes that Dart was unjustified in analyzing this feature on a juvenile skull. This is the same criticism that Dart originally faced from scientists, but Gish fails to mention that later evidence proved Dart's analysis correct and silenced his critics.
Creationists also rarely mention australopithecine teeth. Gish says that "[Dart] pointed out the many ape-like features of the skull, but believed that some features of the skull, and particularly of the teeth, were man-like". (Note the misleading implication that the apelike features really exist, while the humanlike ones are a figment of Dart's imagination.) Gish disputes this, pointing out that the molar teeth of africanus are extremely large. What Gish does not tell readers is that this is one of the few differences between them and human teeth. When the teeth of the Taung child could be properly examined, Dart's claim was strongly confirmed, and is now generally accepted:
"In fact, though the molars were larger than is now normal, most of the teeth [of the Taung child] could have belonged to a child of today." (Campbell 1988)
Source: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/a_piths.html.
See also: Lucy's Knee Joint: A Case Study in Creationists' Willingness to Admit their Errors.
So, it looks like, for Lucy at least, the charge of fabrication is false. That still leaves superstition--but the ball's in your court now.
How many evolution versions are there/have there been?
I see that you are a revisionist also. How wonderful. You are the one who refused to answer my questions calling them strawman, and when declining you threw up unprovable facts of your own, rather than even attempting to get to the true point of my questions.
WHenever you would like to actually attempt my excercise again without quiting or throwing up assumptions of your own, please be my guess you have my number.
I agree. I believe ID is a relevant and provable science that fits in where evolution cannot.
I think that, in many ways, ID simply rem,inds us where modern science has come from. Thru Pythagoras and Plato, and the idea that we discover science rather than invent it.
Are you criticizing science for finding better explanations as more data come in and theories advance? Are you really against science progressing?
Or is it just evolution you are against?
And what is the alternative? Goddidit and no further investigation required? Is this what you want? And for how many fields of investigation do you want this? Evolution? Population biology? Geology? Radiometric dating? Medicine? Don't forget, the bird flu is evolving--that's why its a problem. Stop the research?
It sounds like you want a veto power over any science which disagrees, or might disagree, with your religious belief.
And thats where many assualting ID fall short.
Or is it just evolution you are against?
I happen to believe in creation and evolution. I think creationists have bible time wrong.
The basic gist of argument is based on probability theory which is respectful science.
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