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New Voices in Evolution Activism: From Madalyn Murray O'Hair to Eugenie Scott
ICR ^ | July 2009 | Lawrence Ford

Posted on 07/07/2009 8:43:57 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts

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To: GunRunner

Goebbels was a propoganda minister, not a scientist, but the nazis are notorious for publishing things like going to Tibet and finding remnants of their so-called master race.

Unsurprisngly, it’s not so much the scientists that keep information from reaching children but stupid godless liberals like the NEA and the ACLU.

Understand?

If you napped, you didn’t get enough sleep. I’ll give you some more time to rest up.


101 posted on 07/09/2009 7:58:13 AM PDT by tpanther (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for g!ood men to do nothing---Edmund Burke)
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To: tpanther
You got that wrong too...please document the "natural" properties of string theory, multiverse, and show us how they're "observable".

I got nothing wrong. I asked you to back up your assertion that string theory relies on the supernatural, and you failed.

But the point remains, why is it treated differently than ID?

Because ID is religious creationism masquerading as science. Read the wedge strategy and educate yourself.

ID asks no questions, provides no answers, and makes no testable predictions. It simply looks at a complicated structure and says, "Designed!", and ends the inquiry there. It is a completely worthless method of studying the universe.

102 posted on 07/09/2009 8:07:57 AM PDT by GunRunner
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To: tpanther
If you napped, you didn’t get enough sleep. I’ll give you some more time to rest up.

Really, because you're the one that's not making any sense.

How do Nazi assertions about the master race have anything to do with modern peer review? At least you're backing off the absurd claim that Goebbels published peer reviewed scientific findings.

But I think you need to educate yourself as to what peer review actually is. Your understanding is quite lacking.

103 posted on 07/09/2009 8:11:59 AM PDT by GunRunner
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To: GunRunner

Do you even understand the difference between propoganda and science?

Please show me where I asserted Goebbels published scientific articles.

I, and most people here btw, understand the fallacy of modern peer review just fine, and that’s the problem for poeople like you.


104 posted on 07/09/2009 8:56:51 AM PDT by tpanther (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for g!ood men to do nothing---Edmund Burke)
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To: GunRunner

You got everything wrong. You’re just a typical cultist that only talks past everyone that disagrees with you.

Go lay down.


105 posted on 07/09/2009 8:59:59 AM PDT by tpanther (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for g!ood men to do nothing---Edmund Burke)
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To: tpanther

The multiverse and string theory are mathematical extensions of astronomy, physics and quantum mechanics. Evolution is based on geology, paleontology, comparative anatomy, and biochemistry among other things.

Global warming over the past 100 years is a fact. Global cooling over the past decade is a fact. Future global warming caused by man made CO2 causing widespread catastrophe is a political movement not based on fact. There are real scientists who say it isn’t so. Al Gore is a politician, not a scientist.

Young Earth Creationism and the promotion of ignorance is a religious movement based on mysticism that turns people away from religion and God. Intelligent design isn’t quite as bad, but is inspired by YEC.


106 posted on 07/09/2009 9:43:52 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: tpanther
Do you even understand the difference between propoganda (sic)and science?

The wedge strategy is propaganda. Read and learn:

http://www.antievolution.org/features/wedge.html

Please show me where I asserted Goebbels published scientific articles.

Be glad to.

On post #90 I said, "Goebbels never published anything that was peer reviewed..."

In post #92 you said, "Sure he did!"

QED.

I, and most people here btw, understand the fallacy of modern peer review just fine, and that’s the problem for poeople like you.

I have no doubt that you and many others here reject the processes of modern science. It's quite clear you do by the ridiculous things you say.

107 posted on 07/09/2009 9:47:09 AM PDT by GunRunner
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To: tpanther
You got everything wrong. You’re just a typical cultist that only talks past everyone that disagrees with you.

Nope, everything I said was correct, hence your failure to make any dissenting argument to my post. Good job.

108 posted on 07/09/2009 9:48:28 AM PDT by GunRunner
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To: GunRunner

Please show me where I asserted Goebbels published scientific articles.

Be glad to.

On post #90 I said, “Goebbels never published anything that was peer reviewed...”

In post #92 you said, “Sure he did!”

QED.


Ummmm GR, there’s no “science article(s)” to be found in the statement “Sure he did”, only the assertion that he indeed had his work peer reviewed!

I’m thinking all the sleep in the world can’t help you.

You do understand articles outside of science are peer reviewed?

For instance do you think if Goebbels published and disseminated that all Jews were God’s chosen people, his peers would have had no problems with it upon their review?


109 posted on 07/09/2009 11:35:13 AM PDT by tpanther (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for g!ood men to do nothing---Edmund Burke)
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To: Moonman62
The multiverse and string theory are mathematical extensions of astronomy, physics and quantum mechanics. Evolution is based on geology, paleontology, comparative anatomy, and biochemistry among other things.

Ummm ALL realms of science.

Epic fail.

And the rest of your drivel belongs on DC or DU or other liberal sites that promote Godless liberal propoganda, not FR a pro-Christian website.

Perhaps you should review JR's clear statements about what FR are about.

110 posted on 07/09/2009 11:38:32 AM PDT by tpanther (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for g!ood men to do nothing---Edmund Burke)
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To: tpanther
You're hopeless.

Peer review is not just "having your peers read your work".

It's a scholarly process used in publishing subjects in one's field. Please tell me articles authored by Goebbels that passed peer review. Even though science is the subject of this thread, you can choose any field. Tell me the name of the article and the journal in which it was published.

111 posted on 07/09/2009 11:42:42 AM PDT by GunRunner
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To: GodGunsGuts

“No, I’m referring to the evo-religious doctrine that sometime in the unobservable, unrepeatable past, life came from non-life, that super-sophisticated bio-nano designs sponantaneously emerged from the elements, and that intelligence came from non-intelligence...all without a shred of evidence “

—In our daily lives we all constantly make assumptions/theories/inferences about the past. If we couldn’t use the present to learn about the past we’d be living moment to moment like goldfish. Science is a method for learning about the world around us, and one can’t very well do that without theorizing as to what occurred in the past to present the world we have today. Of course, in the case of a crime scene it’s precisely *when* there are no witnesses that forensic science is used the most and is most important.
As for evidence of abiogenesis: The chemicals which are the building blocks of life (nucleotides, amino acids, etc) strongly suggest that life came naturally from chemistry, and experimentation shows that these molecules form easily, in many conditions, and that nucleotides form into chains which produce copies of themselves (i.e. pass on information).

“(and the admission that it all appears to be designed for a purpose, but then turn around and say that it’s all just an illusion...again based no ZERO evidence).”

—You use the term “admission” as if it were a problem for Darwinism, when Natural Selection would really make so sense without such an appearance (we “design” lifeforms via selective breeding, and nature does the same).

“What a laugh. It is you and your fellow evo coreligionists who hide behind your court enforced “standards” mandating the teaching of your evo-atheist creation myth to the exclusion of all other design related explanations for life’s origin who are the ones who show an extreme aversion to open debate. The Temple of Darwin brooks zero dissent to their evo-religion. As such, they have created “standards” to ensure their religious monopoly over the origins debate in our public schools. If the Evos want to separate religion from state, they can start with the unconstitional establishment of the Temple of Darwin as the de facto religion of the land.”

—There is no such court mandate - nor should there be such a court mandate. The mandate was to teach the well established theories. How radical and totalitarian. As I asked before - what, pray tell, SHOULD be taught in science class? What SHOULD the standards be? We go to historians to determine what to teach in history class, we go to mathematicians to determine what should be taught in math class, etc - where should we go to determine what to teach in science class? You? Maybe we should change the name to the “GodGunsGuts class”?
I don’t agree with everything taught in science class, but if it’s what most scientists agree with, than so be it. The standards shouldn’t change for the sake of my feelings. Likewise there are many things that I personalize believe and yet don’t belong in public school science class. I agree with most of what Dawkins says, but his books wouldn’t make proper textbooks. There’s quite a bit of conjecture and philosophizing and personal religious beliefs which wouldn’t belong.

If Darwinism, or even evolution as a whole, were supplanted tomorrow by what the vast majority of scientists saw as a better theory, it’d be no skin off my nose. In fact, I think that’d be pretty awesome - I’d love to live through a time of such scientific revolution. Let’s say such a revolution took place, and the number of Darwinist scientists dwindled to that comparable to the number of Creationist and ID scientists today - Darwinism would surely stop being taught in science class. But let’s say I didn’t agree with whatever the evidence or reasoning was which overthrew Darwinism - would you see me fighting to have Darwinism put back into science class? No. I would understand that a theory believed by such a fringe group shouldn’t be taught, even if I still agreed with the theory. That’s not to say I wouldn’t fight for the theory’s renewed acceptance in science – I might, perhaps even in a similar fashion to how what you are doing for Creationism (although certainly not as emotionally or ardently as you push Creationism/ID; you care much more about Creationism than I do about Darwinism) but I wouldn’t try to argue it should be in the classroom. That would just be silly for a theory believed by so few scientists.
So even if ID really was a valid scientific theory (which it’s not) and even if it had no linkage whatsoever with religion - it would still have no basis for being taught because of how marginal the theory is.

“You are living in la la land. Like I said, read Slaughter of the Dissidents. The author goes through case after case where Creation and ID scientists, teachers, etc. are persecuted or fired for daring to present the massive and ever growing evidence against Darwin’s evo-religious creation myth.”

—So you won’t give any examples? Interesting, so far I haven’t found anyone else that will either. So this stuff occurs all the time - and yet somehow Creationists/IDists are so desperate for any examples of such that even the slightest *rumor* of such a persecution taking place spreads across the web like wildfire - and to find a single *real* case of such persecution, I have to buy a book? Riiight. I think you’re right, this *must* be la la land.


112 posted on 07/09/2009 1:27:15 PM PDT by goodusername
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To: GunRunner

You can’t be serious.

The nazi scientists reached the conclusions they set out to reach long before they did anything in the field and Josef Goebbels was just their mouthpiece, no diffeent than say algore.

You should do some research on the nazis and what they did in the name of science, from master race madness to medical experiments. Not that it’ll help you understand what liberals like algore are doing to science with their same “the debate is over” mentality and idiocy.

Again, it’s not so much the scientists but the ACLU and NEA types that are destroying science, not normal parents without the multiple God-hang-ups. There’s simply nothing scholarly about what they do.

But the problem many scientists do have is the same as journalists, their ideology infecting their objectivity. Again, nothing particularly “scholarly” about it. They may have you fooled but that’s your hang-up, not normal people.

Congratulations what you liberals have done to science and education in general, as I said Goebbeles must be as proud of this as anything in the 21st century.


113 posted on 07/09/2009 2:50:32 PM PDT by tpanther (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for g!ood men to do nothing---Edmund Burke)
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To: tpanther
The nazi scientists reached the conclusions they set out to reach long before they did anything in the field and Josef Goebbels was just their mouthpiece...

This sounds exactly like the MO of creationists. They've decided evolution is wrong and that the Earth is 6,000 years old, then they work backwards.

The Discovery Institute is your Goebbels.

Nothing in your post has anything to do so much with evolution, and is your usual non-sequitur diatribes.

It's amusing that you accuse the practice of peer review of being akin to Nazi "science" when you have such a false understanding of how the process actually works.

But keep up the DI talking points; you're one of their unpaid mouthpieces, spewing gibberish every day on these threads.

114 posted on 07/09/2009 5:20:12 PM PDT by GunRunner
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To: GunRunner

“This sounds exactly like the MO of creationists”.

I’m sure it sounds exactly that way to a cultist that demands no intelligence, no design even when it’s plain as day to the majority normal people.

And you see, it’s your side that must rely on lawsuits, not the science to simply survive.

And liberals project-alot.

Ignore the reality of that and the fact that you’re on the wrong site till the end of time for all I care.

And by all means project and continue to project about the damage to.

But sane people understand liberals are wrecking science. (And everything else you touch.)


115 posted on 07/09/2009 8:39:42 PM PDT by tpanther (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for g!ood men to do nothing---Edmund Burke)
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I’m sure it sounds exactly that way to a cultist that demands no intelligence, no design even when it’s plain as day to the majority normal people.

I don't demand anything, except that mysticism and religion be kept out of the scientific realm. Believing scientists instead of the Discovery Institute is not cultish, it's common sense.

But sane people understand liberals are wrecking science. (And everything else you touch.)

Sane people like you; Discovery Institute lackeys who don't know what they're talking about and post links to DI's website to back up their points? The evolution debate isn't conservative vs. liberal.

There are plenty of folks here who understand that the wedge strategy and creation science are multi-level marketing hustles disseminated by a small group of con artists. You're the one who's fallen into their cult.

116 posted on 07/10/2009 6:50:08 AM PDT by GunRunner
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To: GunRunner

So intelligence and design in science is mysticism.

Got it.

NO WONDER liberals destroy science.

And scientists like the chemist on dissentfromdarwin.org ARE telling you common sense, but your cult indoctrination simply won’t allow you to do anything more than parrot your epically failed script of projection.


117 posted on 07/10/2009 8:27:02 AM PDT by tpanther (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for g!ood men to do nothing---Edmund Burke)
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So intelligence and design in science is mysticism.

Got it.

Close. A supernatural "designer" or "grand architect" who drew up blueprints for everything in nature and then manufactured them is mysticism. Looking at something, noticing that it is complex, and then concluding that someone "designed" it is not science. It make no predictions that are testable, and answers no questions.

And scientists like the chemist on dissentfromdarwin.org ARE telling you common sense, but your cult indoctrination simply won’t allow you to do anything more than parrot your epically failed script of projection.

I already explained how Dr. Peltzer's quote in no way questions evolution as the reason for the diversity of life. Your tin ear for these things makes you unable to comprehend I guess.

Everyone dissents from Darwin in some manner, whether you're Ken Hamm or Richard Dawkins; its a 100 year old theory and has been modified, tweaked, and updated many times.

118 posted on 07/10/2009 8:44:56 AM PDT by GunRunner
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To: GunRunner

To pretend things just happen willy nilly with no purpose is mysticism.

Even your liberal buddy Dawkins exclaims “well it must have all gotten here via aliens”.

And the liberal vs. conservative battle in this is liberals demand all those that disagree with them be silent.

Normal conservative people are telling you loons to go pound sand. No one appointed you people in charge of anything let alone science.

algore is proof enough you people have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about.

And yeah, you can go on tweaking, normal people understand it’ll never be able to be tweaked sufficiently enough to supplant a more viable explantaion: a created and purposefully intelligently designed universe.

And the scientific “debate isn’t over” and it’s not “settled science” by any stretch, no matter how many times you Chrissy-fit matthews and algore loons say it is.

No one appointed you or your ilk in charge of defining what is or isn’t science, so get over it already.


119 posted on 07/10/2009 9:46:15 AM PDT by tpanther (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for g!ood men to do nothing---Edmund Burke)
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