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[Jeb] Bush: Science comes before intelligent design [Jeb gets the message]
Miami Herald ^
| 26 December 2005
| Daniel A. Ricker
Posted on 12/26/2005 8:37:06 AM PST by PatrickHenry
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To: gedeon3
Evolution is a lie. Science does not equal evolution. Science is compatible with creation. Ever hear of bacteria that evolve resistance to antibiotics?
I guess you think god did it just to keep the pharmaceutical companies in business.
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posted on
12/26/2005 10:46:15 AM PST
by
mc6809e
To: mlc9852
Science is not a democracy. Science is not run by non-scientists taking a poll.
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posted on
12/26/2005 10:53:06 AM PST
by
MineralMan
(godless atheist)
To: Lurian
"Could one not use your same argument to say the biblical creation stories are just a way to explain things in a way that the people of the day could understand?"
Ding! Ding! Ding! Don Pardo...please tell our contestant what he has won!
It's a brand new car!
63
posted on
12/26/2005 10:56:36 AM PST
by
MineralMan
(godless atheist)
To: AmericaUnited
"Well, you'll never get called as an expert in Bible verse understanding. It does not say this."Leviticus, Chapter 11, Verses 13-19. "You must not eat any of the following birds: Eagles, owls, hawks,falcons, buzzards, vultures,crows, ostriches, seagulls, herons, pelicans, cormorants, hoopoes or bats."
As for Joshua, see chapter 10, verse 13, "The sun stood still and the moon did not move until the nation had conquered its enemy"
If you don't think that says that the sun moves and the earth is immovable, it's a pity you weren't available to counsel Galileo's defense.
64
posted on
12/26/2005 10:56:53 AM PST
by
muir_redwoods
(Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
To: Dog Gone
"Show me the four-legged flying animal that is good food."
Err...uhh...sorry. People eat bats, especially the large fruit bats. I hate to do that, but it's true.
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posted on
12/26/2005 10:57:31 AM PST
by
MineralMan
(godless atheist)
To: PatrickHenry
Jones: Okay, Karl. Bombs away! Don't know if he cleared it with Karl, but he sure dropped the whole load.
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posted on
12/26/2005 10:59:08 AM PST
by
VadeRetro
(Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
To: MineralMan
It really doesn't matter if it's a democracy or not. Again, the majority of Americans polled believe God is the creator. And from my children's experience in high school biology, Darwin just wasn't a big deal. They spent more time learning the parts of plants.
67
posted on
12/26/2005 11:00:58 AM PST
by
mlc9852
To: Dog Gone
Oh more heresay and unsourced comments.
So you're apprently of the opinion that if one can't backup assertions with sources they should just spew BS right?
68
posted on
12/26/2005 11:01:50 AM PST
by
x5452
To: MineralMan
69
posted on
12/26/2005 11:01:55 AM PST
by
mlc9852
To: mlc9852
Folks in the Pacific East, where fruit bats live. Here's an account from Taiwan:
They are perhaps the first mammals to settle the Marianas. Guam, Rota, Tinian, Saipan and the rest of the northern islands have populations of Marianas Fruit Bats.
Fruit bats are the favorite food for the Chamorros. The Carolinians dont particularly care to eat fruit bats, but its a delicacy for the Chamorros. I dont know why, but people of the Chamorro decent prefer fruit bats more than almost any other kind of meat.
"And they dont waste hardly anything in there. Only the hard bones, maybe the skulls and the teeth are discarded. From the furs to the stomach, all are eaten. And you know the rubbery part of the bats, the modified hair used as wings, are the delicious part of the fruit bats."
Now thats why they were hunted down almost to extinction here on Saipan. The advent of guns kind of decimated the populations of fruit bats on Tinian, on Saipan. And theres another island south of Tinian called Goat Island, Aguijan, that used to have lots of fruit bats, but the advent of shotguns changed that. Now big shotguns are illegal. Only the small, 410 shotgun is legal here. And the bats are now a protected species. We had them protected by our local laws, and then the Federal Government came in and listed it under threatened species.
But from Anatahan up to Agrigan, fruit bats thrive up there, simply because theres not enough people hunting them, and also, because theres more Carolinians up there who are not very keen on eating fruit bats. So that saves a lot.
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posted on
12/26/2005 11:05:29 AM PST
by
MineralMan
(godless atheist)
To: MineralMan
But bats were excluded earlier in the chapter as good food. And I would quibble with you with they are four-legged. They have arms that are wings, but only two legs.
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posted on
12/26/2005 11:06:58 AM PST
by
Dog Gone
To: mlc9852
And, from Indonesia:
"Unfortunately, our pleasure at witnessing this peaceful relationship between bats and people was marred by our growing realization that many Sulawesians hunt and eat fruit bats without regard for the bats' future. The consumption of bats is common in the non-Muslim and Chinese populations, found mainly in northern Sulawesi. In other areas, bats are used in traditional medicine as cures for asthma or kidney ailments. In southern Sulawesi, we met a prominent Muslim businessman who regularly eats bat kidneys to treat his asthma. In the north, we met a school teacher who admitted that, even though he knows continued hunting of bats is causing a decline in their populations, he continues to eat bats because he likes the taste. Bats are caught by nets, air rifles, and even kites with fish hooks attached to their strings. The kites are flown in the evening, near roosting trees, as the bats are leaving to feed. Many bats can be caught quickly and with few deaths, which is important because they are sold in the markets alive. In a market in Ujung Pandang, we saw a single vendor selling more than 100 black flying foxes, some with pups. As Sulawesi's human population grows, its road systems are bettered, and the rain forests get logged and fragmented at an increasing rate. Fruit bat populations may soon be at great risk, and Sulawesi could lose some of its most important living treasures. "
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posted on
12/26/2005 11:07:31 AM PST
by
MineralMan
(godless atheist)
To: Dog Gone
"But bats were excluded earlier in the chapter as good food. And I would quibble with you with they are four-legged. They have arms that are wings, but only two legs."
Nope. They have four legs. They crawl using their forelegs, just like any other four-legged animals. They don't have arms. They have legs. The front legs are modified to serve primarily as wings, but they are forelegs, not arms. Monkeys and apes have arms.
73
posted on
12/26/2005 11:09:20 AM PST
by
MineralMan
(godless atheist)
To: AmericaUnited
Right and I guess none of the dinosaur fossils dug up are "true" dinosaurs either...
To: darkocean
"Survival of the fittest is a tautology Only because as stated it is a an overly simple generalization. Fittest is not defined as those who survive, but those who pass on their genes to more offspring's offspring than others who do not possess whatever morphological feature the fittest has. The definition is contingent on the environment. If extra long legs enable more offspring to be born then 'survival of the fittest' would mean 'survival of those with the longest legs'. In this form it is not a tautology.
"and all known mutations are detrimental. Not much to hang any sort of a theory of how everything got here on.
Most mutations occur in non-conserved, non-coding areas of the genome so are neutral. Some mutations in the coding and highly conserved NC areas are detrimental but selected out before birth or shortly after birth, some mutations in those areas are beneficial: sickle-cell, milk-tolerence, light colour skin, etc., and many mutations in those areas are neutral, either because they give no benefit given the environment or because they are point mutations that only change the third base in a codon (Changing the third base does not change the amino acid formed by the first two bases).
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posted on
12/26/2005 11:10:48 AM PST
by
b_sharp
(Science adjusts theories to fit evidence, creationism distorts evidence to fit the Bible.)
To: b_sharp
The normal English term for 'mutation' is 'birth defect'.
To: darkocean
"The normal English term for 'mutation' is 'birth defect'."
Uh, no, it isn't. They are two completely separate terms, and have nothing to do with one another. Very few birth defects are caused by mutations. Most are genetic in origin, meaning that the genes that cause them already exist in the parent.
There are a few birth defects caused by mutations, but those are very rare and happen once, generally.
You are confused with your terminology. A good dictionary will help you out, or a web site on birth defects.
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posted on
12/26/2005 11:16:09 AM PST
by
MineralMan
(godless atheist)
To: darkocean
That isn't true as most mutations aren't even noticable in any shape or form. They simply are a change to one of 3 billion bases in the DNA.
To: darkocean
Most of them are caused by radioactive bug bites.
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posted on
12/26/2005 11:17:57 AM PST
by
Tijeras_Slim
("We're a meat-based society.")
To: x5452
How about the third option (fourth really since you actually mentioned three)?
Teach a correct version of the ToE and evolution, including those areas where knowledge is incomplete (and what is being done to rectify the shortage), without mentioning the typical creationist strawman arguments.
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posted on
12/26/2005 11:18:31 AM PST
by
b_sharp
(Science adjusts theories to fit evidence, creationism distorts evidence to fit the Bible.)
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