Posted on 11/13/2005 6:07:54 AM PST by NYer
Your reaction reminds me of the old addage about throwing a rock into a pack and then the one that gets hit is the one that yelps. You drag out the idea that a theory is really a fact in disguise. Get a life bro. You theorize because you don't know the facts not the reverse. Somehow to you a theory is not a theory it is a fact, lol lol lol, the fool saith in his heart, "there is no God."
Your entire post seems to be aimed at putting ID on the level of a scientific theory, able to revise, or even replace, current scientific theories. In reality, ID is a religiously-motivated belief spun off from CS in the late 1980s following a US Supreme Court decision outlawing CS in schools.
So, ID is not something new -- it is a repackaged version of CS. It is religion in a Trojan horse, trying to assume the trappings of science to sneak in the back door.
(What's next, trying to convince us of a global flood about 2304 BC ± 11 years?)
I love your idea of "scientific theory" verses "religious propaganda." When you call theory fact or give it the same credibility as fact then anything goes. I could say im teaching religious theory not religious propaganda. I prefer to tell you and all the other morons who spout the party line on evolution that you cannot prove anything. YOu are a state monoply on an avenue of propaganda.
You are no different than the powerful catholic church was in the middle ages. Always wrong, but never able to admit it even when it flew in the face of the reality at hand. YOu make something so because you say it is so. At least myself and the other creationists have the gonads to tell the rest of the world that what we believe is what we believe, not what is the fact. You don't have the courage to admit that what you are doing is teaching theory as if it is concrete fact.
Too bad you squander your honesty away on useless and senseless arguments about how is doesn't mean is. YOu are a fraud and you know it. That is why you purjure the arguments that are opposite of what you come up with.
We don't need to add any fables to the things taught, you already have the government controlled religion and government controlled monopoly on beliefs. You are the ones bringing on the fables and the myths.
Fact: when an observation is confirmed repeatedly and by many independent and competent observers, it can become a fact.
So you keep mentioning theory there fella. YOu don't seem to mention that evolution is a fact? I guess it is because you don't observe it or see it confirmed repeatedly by independent and competent observers. I guess then evolution is still a supposition based upon something not able to be observed etc. I guess if that is not so then it is your personal level of competence that disables the theory of evolution from being a fact. It gets so so so confusing when you try to parse out words to hide the reality of you not being able to call evolution a fact.
So then what we have is both sides giving theories of origins. The state monopoly has the badge and the gun so they get to be the ones to make the decision. They are typical oppressors, silence the other side lest they be shown to be as stupid as they look. You resent other opinions being said alongside yours. That bothers you because it makes it clear that you are using a theory, not a fact. You can say a theory is not really a theory, but it is more, but you are just lying to yourself. You can call a cow a horse if you want to, but it is still a cow.
Bogus.
What I posted was a series of dictionary (google) definitions. I don't see where you can be so upset at those?!?
Take a deep breath, settle down, and try to come up with a logical response.
I see you can't refute the logic in my post.
And gravity is only a "theory" too.
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I thought it was the law of gravity.
"it is a repackaged version of CS."
No, it is not.
"It is religion in a Trojan horse, trying to assume the trappings of science to sneak in the back door."
And why should religion have to sneak in the back door? That statement reveals the true agenda of those who falsely conflate ID with Biblical literalism.
Oddly enough, these something news are found by people who conduct research and who understand the existing science -- not by people who are incapable of properly stating existing theory, and who conduct no research.
Newtons Laws have been superseded by Einstein's theory.
Funny, I kinda' thought the term "Theory of Evolution" made that pretty clear in and of itself.
They are neither genuinely ignorant nor willfully ignorant they are only driven by intelligent design.
"Newtons Laws have been superseded by Einstein's theory."
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Poor Sir Issac. His laws have been reduced to a theory.
Next thing you know gravity will be just an unproven hypothesis causing us to be flung off the planet. ;)
"No, his laws are laws. The theory attempts to explain why the law holds. Well, under certain conditions. Einstein discovered that Newton's laws weren't as universal as previously thought. They're still laws, though, because they're not explanatory.
Theories and laws are two different types of statements. Theories do not become laws and laws cannot be "downgraded" to theory. They are not heirarchical."
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It was meant as a joke, oh ye of little humor.
Or did the part about being flung off the earth escape you while you were keeping your lists.
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