Posted on 08/31/2006 7:42:01 PM PDT by PatrickHenry
More adults in the United States believe the theory of evolution is correct, according to a poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. 51 per cent of respondents think that humans and other living things evolved over time, while 42 per cent say they existed in their present form since the beginning of time.
Charles Darwin’s "The Origin of Species" was first published in 1859. The book details the British naturalist’s theory that all organisms gradually evolve through the process of natural selection. Darwin’s views were antagonistic to creationism, the belief that a more powerful being or a deity created life.
In the United States, the debate on the topic accelerated after the 1925 Scopes trial, which tested a law that banned the teaching of evolution in Tennessee public schools. In 2004, Georgia’s Cobb County was at the centre of a controversy on whether science textbooks that explain evolutionary theory should include disclaimer stickers.
The theory of intelligent design suggests certain biological mechanisms are too complex to have developed without the involvement of a powerful force or intelligent being.
Last month, Austrian cardinal Christoph Schoenborn said the two views are not necessarily incompatible, declaring, "There is no conflict between science and religion, but a debate between a materialist interpretation of the results of science and a metaphysical philosophical interpretation. (...) The possibility that the Creator used evolution as a tool is completely acceptable for the Catholic faith."
Polling Data
Some people think that humans and other living things evolved over time. Others think that humans and other living things existed in their present form since the beginning of time. Which of these comes closest to your view?
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Jul. 2006 |
Jul. 2005 |
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Evolved over time |
51% |
48% |
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Existed in their present form |
42% |
42% |
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Don’t know / Refused |
7% |
10% |
Source: Pew Research Center for the People and the Press Methodology: Telephone interviews with 2,003 American adults, conducted from Jul. 6 to Jul. 19, 2006. Margin of error is 3 per cent.
Now THAT'S a philosophy I can agree with!
:^)
Actually every element on the periodic table can have three states.. Gas, Liquid , or Solid.. Could be the "Triune God" being a creator, paints(creates) things with his personality.. as any master painter does..
How bout this analogy.. about being three persons in one.. I can be a Son, Father, and Grandfather all at the same time while still living.. Timing is everything, time is "if'y".. No getting away from the "observer problem"...
And each according to the function to be fulfilled. Good points all, hosepipe.
Many many years ago when I was twenty three,
I got married to a widow who was pretty as could be.
This widow had a grown-up daughter
Who had hair of red.
My father fell in love with her,
And soon the two were wed.
This made my dad my son-in-law
And changed my very life.
My daughter was my mother,
For she was my father's wife.
To complicate the matters worse,
Although it brought me joy,
I soon became the father
Of a bouncing baby boy.
My little baby then became
A brother-in-law to dad.
And so became my uncle,
Though it made me very sad.
For if he was my uncle,
Then that also made him brother
To the widow's grown-up daughter
Who, of course, was my step-mother.
Father's wife then had a son,
Who kept them on the run.
And he became my grandson,
For he was my daughter's son.
My wife is now my mother's mother
And it makes me blue.
Because, although she is my wife,
She's my grandmother, too.
If my wife is my grandmother,
Then I am her grandchild.
And every time I think of it,
It simply drives me wild.
For now I have become
The strangest case you ever saw.
As the husband of my grandmother,
I am my own grandpa!
By Dwight B. Latham
and Moe Jaffe
I'm not aware of any "serious" attempts to draw up a curriculum; the DI discourages teaching it, prefering "teach the controversy"
Check out some of the adaptations that are already in place, not just for "Eskimos" but also for inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego.
In both regions the inhabitants are able to stand much colder temperatures than more equatorial groups--through adaptations.
Give it a little time! Both groups are extremely young on the evolution time scale.
The Wicker Man
Burning Man Festival
NEVER?!
Shame on you Creos who act badly!
Why are you fighting this?
'Cause it's inaccurate. You'd have to show, from the Scriptures, thar Eve KNEW all these things.
It's plain, from the Word, that 'she was deceived.'
And they NEVER seem to ask how often or how my wife and I, do it!
NIV 2 Timothy 4:2-4
2. Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage--with great patience and careful instruction.
3. For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.
4. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.
"High fives all around"
NIV Colossians 1:19-20
19. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him,
20. and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.
Because he doesn't understand the concept of selective pressure. He doesn't understand that unless there are Eskimoes who are not reproducing for wont of being less able to strut around naked in the snow than some of their, by genetic chance, hardier peers, there is no reason to expect any aggregate genetic movement in that direction within the population over time.
Of course, if Eskimo women decided they preferred only to mate with guys who streaked around the ice fields naked, that would change the equation, as would the complete disappearance of the human ability to manufacture coats.
100% ?
It's the espousers of the ToE that 'make preditions'.
(We'd have to take a Northern #^@$$*@^ poll to find out!
;^)
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