Posted on 07/11/2008 8:06:50 AM PDT by rhema
like proper condom application on cucumbers. socialism and group think are preferable to individualism and capitalism. Religion is a crutch and your parents are stupid and not worthy of respect. Truth is relative, and morals are up to the individual. Sex has no consequences if you are "safe". All lifestyles and cultures are equally valid. Yes, I know what the left would like to assert as "what all members of society need to learn", and that you're arrogant enough to think that you have the right to decide what those things are.
Larry,
If the teachers say to the students, “We all come from God”, I would tend to agree.
On the other hand, and this is the point you are failing to acknowledge, if probability science is unable to correlate the incredible improbability of a fish that looks like the sea-weed it lives in, there is a problem.
...and I believe there is real science out there worth looking at.
If you want total bullshit, look no further than “global warming”. Science doesn’t support anything other than a natural cycle and yet the left is screaming in your face (and destroying careers) over it.
I guess you can't have any of that having people learn to think for themselves stuff going on, now can we?
Cause it's the only way to maintain the stranglehold on the education system that they can think of.
Sources? Anything at all that you can site to back up your statement?
People try, but it gets rejected by the "scientific" community off hand. Besides, theories are supposed to be disproved. Have the evos disproved creation?
This is an interesting little tidbit...
There's this curious little molecule that's rather important in the body. It's called *laminin* and has a very interesting shape....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laminin
Shaped like a cross. Imagine that....
Wow, you just managed to insult every teacher in this country in one fell swoop. That's quite an assumption, BTW.
If they are not *informed scientists* then what are they doing "teaching" science in schools to begin with?
Would you rather that they just blindly recite out of the textbooks handed to them without questioning any of it because *greater minds* than theirs have said so?
Is this how you would prefer kids to be taught? Just swallow the *facts* handed to them to later regurgitate them back on a test to receive a passing grade?
And people can't figure out why the US is so far behind the rest of the world in science. It comes from stifling learning and brainwashing them instead of teaching them to think.
You're really on a roll, aren't you.
Now you've managed to insult the rest of humanity.
Outside of the law, judges are just common folk; outside of medicine, doctors are just common folk; outside of science, scientists are just common folk; outside of anyone's area of expertise, people are just common folk. Not everyone is good at everything. Everyone has areas in their lives that puts them at the common folk level.
Whoever said that schools were the sole domain of science? Or that only science can be taught in schools? What are they, science churches supported by the coerced monies of unwilling taxpayers?
If churches pulled something like that, the hue and cry would be unreal. But schools can be commandeered by those who claim to be scientists to have a monopoly on teaching their own worldview and it's supported by the atheist, evo, ACLU crowd and if anyone else objects they're just a bunch of religious zealots.
How hypocritical.
I enjoyed that.
You should head over to Charles Johnson’s site...Charles is absolutely irrational on this issue....
Well said.
You're batting 1000. Now you've managed to insult families.
Perhaps you could explain, then, the blinding success of all those homeschoolers that consistently outperform public school students in virtually every area going.
I saw the Louie Giglio series as well, good stuff.....
“If”
Pretty close to the truth. But not quite. Some people know how to make use of the expertise of specialists. Others are just threatened by it.
For example.
Two of the modern era's greatest scientists were not athiests. Newton was a Christian. Einstein - while he didn't believe there was a bearded guy sitting on a throne in the sky watching carefully to make sure men kept their peckers in their pants - was quite upset when people tried to paint him as an athiest.
They were not unusual. Many of today's scientists are religious...and that includes specialists in Evolution. Why don't believers talk to them about how to best handle the challenges to belief instead of - hopelessly and foolishly - trying to deny the value of science?
Maybe you misunderstood the point.
In no way am I saying such an event would happen.
I’m demonstrating the mindset of the atheist.
Fascinating. Thanks for the ping!
It’s fascinating how people see things how they want to. And what about the other important molecules even more crucial to life. What does that tell us? H2O looks like Mickey. Shocking...
I’m not sure that’s exactly how science works. I think it’s more that theories are tested, and they may consequently be rejected, modified, or reinforced, according to the results. And, of course, the process is not usually all so cut-and-dried as that. It is, I think, generally more incremental and prolonged before any tentative conclusions can be drawn, and there is even longer a wait for something definitive.
”Have the evos disproved creation?”
The more responsible ones will, I think, declare themselves incompetent to judge such matters (the existence of a Creator, a universe born of intelligent design, whether we humans, individually or collectively, are destined for oblivion, etc), their discipline confining them to material boundaries that limit the range of their investigation. Outside their discipline, they all have an opinion, of course, and it will often influence what they declare, depending on the audience they address at any given moment.
Compounding this situation is the fact that for religion and science alike the stakes have become enormous in terms of political power, money, and prestige.
LOL!
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