No one fears that evolution will be supplanted as a scientific theory. There is no controversy about it among real scientists.
What I (and other pro-science freepers) fear is that the teaching of ID, because it is pseudo-scientific garbage, will destroy science education in primary and secondary schools, making us lose our scientific edge, which in the long run will threaten our position as a world power.
As a conservative, I fear that the embrace by the right of ID pseudo-science will greatly damage the conservative movement politically. Indeed, it already has. Thankfully, GOP politicians, at least at the national level, seem to be fleeing this nonsense like rats a sinking ship.
As a Christian, I also fear that rejection of solid science like evolution by so many Christians will discredit Christianity educated peoples' eyes and greatly harm evangelization efforts.
If you are truly teaching scientific method in science class then the presentation of ID/creationism will be recognized as unscientific quackery which is easily debunked in the application of scientific principles. Granted, my first "if" is rather significant, but science, which is attempting to find the truth, has nothing to fear from presentations of falsehood.
Evolution = "solid science?" As a biochemist myself, few atheistic evolutionists are nearly so confident in your statement of belief as you are -- you, who call yourself a Christian.
As a Christian do you also agree with the vatican "astrophysisist" that God did not design you? I suspect he calls himself a "Christian" too.
The Christian knows that death entered the world by one man's sin, even as Paul writes in the book of Romans. Do you, as Christian believe this?
The finger of God wrote in tablets of stone the Law known to us as the ten commandments. In the writing of that Law the finger of God wrote that "...in six days the Lord made heaven and earth the sea and all that in them is." This resides in direct opposition to premise of millions of years of an evolutionary path from molecules to man. As a Christian, who in your opinion is right -- the Cretaor who designed it all in the beginning or today's speculators who clearly were not?
Jesus Christ without exception endorsed the writings of Moses as true. Genesis is the first book containing the writings of Moses. Do you, as a Christian have a problem with Christ's affirmation of the writings of Moses?
Jesus Christ, speaking specifically in the context of man, declared that He who made them in the beginning made the male and female. As a Christian, please square the words of Jesus Christ -- the Creator Himself, with the "solid science" of evolution that you believe to be true.
All I can say is "Ditto". Thanks
Do you believe that God created man?
Thank You.
The So Called educated many times try to use their status in life to intmidate others and again I am uninpressed. If man evolved from beast to man note there is no such link in the fossil record.
Nicely put!
What I (and other pro-science freepers) fear is that the teaching of ID, because it is pseudo-scientific garbage, will destroy science education in primary and secondary schools, making us lose our scientific edge, which in the long run will threaten our position as a world power.
As a conservative, I fear that the embrace by the right of ID pseudo-science will greatly damage the conservative movement politically. Indeed, it already has. Thankfully, GOP politicians, at least at the national level, seem to be fleeing this nonsense like rats a sinking ship.
As a Christian, I also fear that rejection of solid science like evolution by so many Christians will discredit Christianity educated peoples' eyes and greatly harm evangelization efforts."
Hyperbole \Hy*per"bo*le\, n.
A figure of speech in which the expression is an evident exaggeration of the meaning intended to be conveyed, or by which things are represented as much greater or less, better or worse, than they really are; a statement exaggerated fancifully, through excitement, or for effect.
Somebody has said of the boldest figure in rhetoric, the hyperbole, that it lies without deceiving.
--Macaulay.
(Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913))
But hey, if it makes you feel better about yourself, more power to ya.