Posted on 10/14/2006 11:16:50 AM PDT by lizol
Keep Darwin's 'lies' out of Polish schools: education official 2 hours.
WARSAW (AFP) - Poland's deputy education minister called for the influential evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin not to be taught in the country's schools, branding them "lies."
"The theory of evolution is a lie, an error that we have legalised as a common truth," Miroslaw Orzechowski, the deputy minister in the country's right-wing coalition government, was quoted as saying by the Gazeta Wyborcza daily Saturday.
Orzechowski said the theory was "a feeble idea of an aged non-believer," who had come up with it "perhaps because he was a vegetarian and lacked fire inside him."
The evolution theory of the 19th-century British naturalist holds that existing animals and plants are the result of natural selection which eliminated inferior species gradually over time. This conflicts with the "creationist" theory that God created all life on the planet in a finite number.
Orzechowski called for a debate on whether Darwin's theory should be taught in schools.
"We should not teach lies, just as we should not teach bad instead of good, or ugliness instead of beauty," he said. "We are not going to withdraw (Darwin's theory) from the school books, but we should start to discuss it."
The deputy minister is a member of a Catholic far-right political group, the League of Polish Families. The league's head, Roman Giertych, is education minister in the conservative coalition government of Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski.
Giertych's father Maciej, who represents the league in the European Parliament, organised a discussion there last week on Darwinism. He described the theory as "not supported by proof" and called for it be removed from school books.
The far-right joined the government in May when Kaczynski's ruling conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party, after months of ineffective minority government, formed a coalition including LPR and the populist Sambroon party.
Roman Giertych has not spoken out on Darwinism, but the far-right politician's stance on other issues has stirred protest in Poland since he joined the government.
A school pupils' association was expected to demonstrate in front of the education ministry on Saturday to call for his resignation.
Truly, neither have I, that I know of. Then again, it's hard to tell what people take on faith simply on the bases of a Freeper thread. =]
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
I believe that your claim is a non-sequitur.
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How do you know that to be true?
I'm confused, too. I can't believe there aren't a lot more of those.
I'm no knight in shining armor, but I have eight years on the forum, 41,000 posts with no warnings or suspensions. You, are the second of your kind to attempt taking over the science threads and running them into the muck.
In a year or two, after you've finished "witnessing," you will be gone, and FR will be able to breathe again. You and your tribe that even you show public contempt for.
There are, just not using the exact word. Not everyone has an ear for the precision application of vulgarity. Two or three well chosen instances in 41,000 posts is about right.
But then not all of his fans are bright enough to notice that he called his own followers stupid to their face.
If there were only atheists, there would be no god.
Maybe it's just the phase of the Moon, but I no longer have any confidence of such things.
What god? Which god?
No, it doesn't. But that's because, simply by being matter, it already has certain properties, and will behave in some ways and not in others, and is therefore already "organize[d] in such a way that it performs specific functions".
Once again, your definition of ID defines nothing because it includes everything. And not just everything that is, but everything that possibly could be in any intelligible universe. It is therefore completely vacuous and utterly useless.
Judging from what the assault on IQ has done to fund raising, FR may not be the same in two years. Moderating certainly has changed in the last year.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1011737/posts?page=363#363
The call to keep Darwin out of public schools is clearly an example of a totalitarian mindset. Surely, there are plenty of those educational and scientific ideologues (including here in US) who treat Darwin theory as sacred, unquestionable and beyond any criticism. Both of these types are mind censors.
I'm all for teaching Darwin in schools alongside other theories that are critical of Darwin (i.e. Intelligent Design, Creationism, etc.). The freedom of intellectual inquiry is the prerequisite of successfull and healthy society.
"Atheists owe their very existence to God.
What god? Which god?"
IN THE beginning [before all time] was the Word [Jesus Christ], and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself.
He was present originally with God.
All things were made and came into existence through Him; and without Him was not even one thing made that has come into being.
In Him was Life, and the Life was the Light of men.
And the Light shines on in the darkness, for the darkness has never overpowered it [put it out or absorbed it or appropriated it, and is unreceptive to it].
John 1:1-5
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