Posted on 11/13/2007 1:40:53 PM PST by yoe
This is pure opinion, and is, therefore, religious in nature. It is not in the purview of a teacher to be teaching this.
For my part, evolution is inherently antireligious. Richard Dawkins agrees with me. I am a strong conservative, evangelical Christian. Dawkins is a world-famous atheistic evolutionist.
Me either......
5700 year or whatever old earth... yep pretty scared of them.
How does Christ have a a dog in the fight between stupidity and his way other than pulling for the people that pull his way and being there for those that go astray?
Christ said something about a mote or something didn’t he?
Wink.
Dawkins.... I am going to ask your permission to post something about him.
May I? Please.
Pretty Please?
anything you wish, but you don’t need my permission
Sorry, I should’ve included the sarcasm tag.
Still waiting for scientific evidence against evolution, and/or scientific evidence supporting ID....
Neither is evolution.
It is, and always has been, bad theory that has had to change course so many times you could use it as an electric fan.
They had the judge on WPHT radio (1210 AM) here in Philadelphia yesterday. The judge had absolutely no clue was constituted "science", but he did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
“Albert Einstein also believed that Natural Selection was the theory that best explained Biological evolution, and he was certainly a lot smarter than any of the Science haters at the Dyscovery Institut”
Natural Selection is great for explaining changes within a specie. It’s pure speculation and fantasy to use it to explain differences between species.
Prenatal vitamins for starters. The use of steroids in our meat products can be correlated to “larger” children by giving the roids by proxy.
Haven't asked him, but that would seem to be likely. He also believes in evolution. Note that the two beliefs don't seem to be mutually incompatible.
The evidence is presented, among other places, in a book called “The Edge of Evolution” by Michael Behe. Before you claim that Behe has been refuted you better be able to point to one concrete example of stepwise evolution of a complex biological mechanism or system. Sometimes the reason we can’t find something is because it does not exist, i.e. mutations leading to improved organisms that came into existence by teeny changes accumulated over time.
The theory of Darwinian Evolution does not allow for accumulated changes. Each change must be “macro” enough to be tested by natural selection and “micro” enough to represent a single mutation. The statistical likelihood of such a thing happening within the time frame of 18 billion years and a universe of 10 to the 80th particles makes a miracle seem like a sure thing. And if evolution requires miracles how is it natural?
They quote a letter that Einstein wrote, dated March 24, 1954.
The letter was in response to a letter Einstein had received from an admiring atheist, who had read in an article that Einstein was devoutly religious. The writer was skeptical of that, and wanted to know the truth. Additionally, he mailed Einstein a check for Einstein to give to the charity of his choice.
Nonsense.
More nonsense. Believing in ID is one thing. Lying about it and pretending it's not religious based is another. The ID political radicals are selling their soul on this one (and their credibility). We see right through you.
Nonsense. By this inane "logic", having an army is not neutral because it gives preference to religions that accept that war is sometimes necessary over those that take an absolute pacifist stand.
There are some religions that are OK with violence under certain conditions, and others that reject it totally. Ergo, fighting wars or even having a military is unconsitutional.
Since this line of argument leads to obvious absurdities, it must be rejected as invalid.
Nonsense. It is established fact, 100% proven by finding even one person who believes in both evolution and religion (which is trivially easy to do).
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