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Posted on 05/06/2008 3:49:16 PM PDT by wagglebee
Sure, the connection goes right thru the Devil, who will use any means necessary. Hijacking Christianity is surely on the agenda.
I think its safe to say that 'Blazing Saddles' would be over the heads of the types of people that went to see it.
careless wording?
They won't address the origin of life issue.
With the exclusion of a Creator, there is no objective reason for right and wrong, and if totally uncreated natural selection resulted in what we are today, an advanced species, and more to the point, the most advanced “race”, then there’s no reason not to “help” evolution along by selective breeding and, more to the point, selective “non-breeding” (extermination).
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We’re all created in God’s image, and persecution, oppression, or murder of another human is doing the same to God in effigy.
The Grand Architect "lives" outside the "house".
Some atheist idiot yesterday asked for scientific proof of God.
Ridiculous.
You keep stating, repeatedly, as if it proves some point, that the movie is a “dud” and a boxoffice flop.
When compared to “Ironman”, perhaps.
But compared to other documentaries, it has done quite well.
What’s your point, anyway?
Some sort of “proof by non-consensus”?
You’re right about the point of the movie.
And, the problem that most folks have with the atheoevos is that they are teaching their anti-theology in schools, undermining the values of our culture.
And, they’re doing it with the protection of the government, and other bullying tactics.
I homeschool, so I won’t have to fight the indoctrination. And yes, I’m going to teach them about “change over time” and that the Creator set the microtuned rules in place that made such “change over time” result in His creation, a being in His own image, whom He granted consciousness, a common moral code, and a yearning for fellowship with Him.
“And yes, I’m going to teach them about “change over time” and that the Creator set the microtuned rules in place that made such “change over time” result in His creation”
So is that like guided theistic evolution?
I believe the term is “Theistic Evolution”.
I’m more into the cosmological evidence for the Creator, and the DNA/Genome is a similar observation.
The rules are far too precise, and have to be in order to result in life in the universe, for it to be anything other than a Creation.
multiverse my a$$.
Things change. The communist government championed a horticulturist named Lysenko, who embraced a form of Lamarckianism. Before Darwin Lamarck supposed that creatures changed by the inheritance of acquired traits. If you spend a lot of time running and develop strong leg muscles and lungs, then Lamarck thought that your baby would inherit these traits developed during your lifetime. This idea was in direct opposition to Darwin's theory of evolution, which said that populations contain a lot of variation and this variation is passed on to the offspring without modification. The change over time comes from natural selection filtering the variants, resulting in higher reproductive success for some variants than others.
Of course in Darwin's time the details of inheritance were not known. Mendel published his work on inheritance then, but it was not well known until after his death. When Mendel's work was rediscovered geneticists realized that inherited traits were passed on in genes (although at the time they still didn't know what genes were!) Geneticists started working with plants, breeding them and studying their chromosomes.
It's hard to say why the communist government found Lysenko's ideas so appealing, perhaps because he was their representative of the "common man" who had arisen and thrown over the ideas of bourgeois foreigners. At any rate Mendelian genetics went far far out of favor, and geneticists who didn't abandon their evolutionary ideas and embrace Lysenkoism were imprisoned and even killed.
I, too, believe in TE.
But Christians think I’m a G-dless heathen, and people in the science field think I’m delusional.
It’s a lose-lose situation.
Depends on Who you think you're accountable to...:)
Yeah, they sure are stupid, ain't they? LOL!
Kinda like the people they talked to in the movie. PhD's in immunology and biology and stupid stuff like that. Where'd they get that piece of paper anyway? Wal-Mart? What a bunch of maroons! Yuk-yuk!
Not like really smart guys like you and me, huh?
/sarc
What 'we'?
You noticed that too?
Exactly.
You're the only smart guy, not me. No, no, no.
mea culpa
'Expelled' could exceed box-office forecasts
April 18, 2008
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The "'Expelled' Challenge" urges schools and home-schooling groups to get students, parents and faculty to show up in force, promising donations of $5 to $10 per ticket stub for those who register.
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Ruloff [Walt Ruloff, the movie's executive producer] said the film could top the $23.9-million opening for Michael Moore's polemic against President Bush, "Fahrenheit 9/11," the best launch ever for a documentary.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-projector18apr18,1,4982009.story
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According to boxofficemojo.com, the film took in $66,912 on May 5 at 656 theaters (down from 1052), which works out to $102/theater. Gross receipt through May 5 is $6,680,168.
From Chapter 11 of "Mein Kampf":
"Every crossing between two breeds which are not quite equal results in a product which holds an intermediate place between the levels of the two parents. This means that the offspring will indeed be superior to the parent which stands in the biologically lower order of being, but not so high as the higher parent. For this reason it must eventually succumb in any struggle against the higher species. Such mating contradicts the will of Nature towards the selective improvements of life in general. The favourable preliminary to this improvement is not to mate individuals of higher and lower orders of being but rather to allow the complete triumph of the higher order. The stronger must dominate and not mate with the weaker, which would signify the sacrifice of its own higher nature. Only the born weakling can look upon this principle as cruel, and if he does so it is merely because he is of a feebler nature and narrower mind; for if such a law did not direct the process of evolution then the higher development of organic life would not be conceivable at all."
I doubt real science will be the least bit affected by Stein, but he has succeeded in setting back our party.
Even Rush is praising the movie, so Stein has been successful in making ID some kind of conservative rallying cry, which is really, really bad news.
Now on top of all the other epithets that liberals and the mainstream media use to label the GOP, we'll now be the party of creationism and a 6,000 year old Earth.
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