Posted on 09/24/2009 6:08:52 AM PDT by xcamel
William Dembski, the “intelligent design” creationist who is a professor in philosophy at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, has some rather interesting requirements for students of his creationism courses — 20% of their final grade comes from having written 10 posts promoting ID on “hostile” websites: Academic Year 2009-2010.
Spring 2009
Intelligent Design (SOUTHERN EVANGELICAL SEMINARY #AP 410, 510, and 810; May 11 – 16, 2009)
NEW! THE DUE DATE FOR ALL WORK IN THIS COURSE IS AUGUST 14, 2009. Here’s what you will need to do to wrap things up:
AP410 — This is the undegrad [sic] course. You have three things to do: (1) take the final exam (worth 40% of your grade); (2) write a 3,000-word essay on the theological significance of intelligent design (worth 40% of your grade); (3) provide at least 10 posts defending ID that you’ve made on “hostile” websites, the posts totalling 2,000 words, along with the URLs (i.e., web links) to each post (worth 20% of your grade).
AP510 — This is the masters course. You have four things to do: (1) take the final exam (worth 30% of your grade); (2) write a 1,500- to 2,000-word critical review of Francis Collins’s The Language of God — for instructions, see below (20% of your grade); (3) write a 3,000-word essay on the theological significance of intelligent design (worth 30% of your grade); (4) provide at least 10 posts defending ID that you’ve made on “hostile” websites, the posts totalling 3,000 words, along with the URLs (i.e., web links) to each post (worth 20% of your grade).
So you are asserting that the scientific method is 2000 years old?(not that I even accept your assertion about crushing)
Are conservative political principles dependent on belief in YEC? When the Founders formed the political alliance and laid out the political basis for our system of government that we are supposed to be trying to conserve, was that a criteria they used as the basis for that alliance?
I'm glad that you are easily humored. But that in no way helps your argument. So again, why are you participating in a discussion you apparently loathe?
No and no, but your questions are superfluous, since xcamel made an argument using numbers of people holding specific beliefs.
Just like the average creationist to claim “victory” without any substantiating evidence.
You lose.
You wouldn’t be referring to THIS poll, would you?
Free Republic Poll on Evolution
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1706571/posts
And it was put forth by an evo, so the questions were certainly not skewed in favor of the creationist side.
Don’t get all excited, it just means support, foundation, or buttocks, basis, all with the idea of having everything rest upon it.
Is the entire argument about specific beliefs superfluous?
What a crock.
Some people may have done that, and in the name of religion as well, but there's nothing inherent in Christianity that is hostile to scientific inquiry.
You also demonstrate an appalling lack of knowledge of history and geography if you ascribe the lack of scientific progress for that time to religion alone.
Unlike you who just oozes sweetness and compassion, right?
This is truly a strawman conundrum.
The only way there is to engage this fight is through spiritual warfare. It is not men that we fight, thus we need use the power of the Holy Spirit, and the watchers if we are to see any victory.
The unbelievers that claim to be 'conservatives' have no vision of what the fight even is, and are the real "fringe."
Here’s more:
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2006/03/americans_overwhelmingly_suppo.html
Headline: “Americans Overwhelmingly Support Teaching Scientific Challenges to Darwinian Evolution, Zogby Poll Shows” From March 2006.
http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/filesDB-download.php?command=download&id=719
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Free Republic Poll on Evolution
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1706571/posts?page=63#63
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Creationism makes a comeback in US
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1856224/posts
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Teaching creation and evolution in schools
Solid research reveals American beliefs
http://www.answersingenesis.org/tj/v13/i2/teaching.asp
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Survey Finds Support Is Strong For Teaching 2 Origin Theories
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B07E4D9143BF932A25750C0A9669C8B63
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Public Divided on Origins of Life
http://people-press.org/report/254/religion-a-strength-and-weakness-for-both-parties
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Americans Believe in Jesus, Poll Says (creation poll results included)
http://derekgulbranson.com/2005/01/17/americans-believe-in-jesus/
If we went by that premise, we would lock up 90% of our school teachers for teaching evolution, big bang, and old Earth nonsense, since it all has been proven false.
Where is your evidence? In any case, I didn't claim victory, I made a claim and you reject it. So what? You still make grandiose claims for others.
You can consider my claim equivalent to all Darwinian claims. Gallup polls clearly indicate that Americans are overwhelmingly skeptical of Darwinism. Considering that Freepers are vastly American, the Gallup results apply to us. That is Darwinian logic.
That'll do.
Glad to be of assistance.
No. But, in this case, they are.
A small group of fundamentalists somehow manages pressure or coerce JR to bend to their demands and drive FR to the fringe, driving off other true conservatives at a time when they are most needed to fight against the tidal wave of socialist and anti freedom agendas?
Brilliant plan there Dr. Strangelove.
Just keep your petty agenda right there on the front page, where people expect to see the “Face of Reagan’, and all they really get is the likes of Rev Fred Phelps and radical muslim funding of ICR by turkish national Adnan Oktar.
Just brilliant.
What about that Jim? Do you feel "somehow pressured or coerced"? I never got that feeling from your statements about FR concerning Christianity and censorship.
Ah...a content free response.
Do you have anything in your quiver besides off-topic insults? If you really think that JimRob has reduced funding by banning people like Coyoteman (who in his latter days had taken to accusing evangelicals of a conspiracy to overthrow the Constitution and replace it with a theocracy that would outlaw astronomy) then put it to the test.
Here I thought you ran the site, but it turns out I'm in charge...cool, can you tell the mods to wash my car?
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