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Some small group of religious conservatives made me put it there. LOL!
The Godless liberals have outlawed discussion of God's work from schools, government and all public places, but I'll be damned if they're going to outlaw it on FR.
If that means liberals, atheists, Darwinists, RINOS, etc, withhold their donations from FR, well, I guess we'll get along without them.
So, just to be clear...the mods aren’t going to wash my car?
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Jim, you are a true HERO, and an oh so welcome antidote to ZERO!
May God bless you and yours, and may God bless Free Republic!!!—GGG
[[If that means liberals, atheists, Darwinists, RINOS, etc, withhold their donations from FR, well, I guess we’ll get along without them.]]
I wouldn’t worry too much about that- it’s only a small handful of complainers that stomp their foot- and they probably aren’t old enough to donate much anyways- even if they do contribute from time to time- I think most liberals, darwinists and Rinos etc realy apapreciate your no nonsense site as a breath of fresh air amidst the stench of political activism in the mainstream media, myriad far left liberal blogs and websites etc- Fox news is stomping the left in the ratings because peopel are sick and tired of far left crap for brains mainstream media Obama-bots tryign to force their agenda on America, and tryign to ocnvince everyone it’s ‘for our own good’. Peopl,e are flockign to Fox, and I beleive you’ll get plenty of peopel coming here to replace the few whiners that adopt the religion of victimology and rant on about how you’re ‘supposed to run’ this site- They won’t be missed
Jim, speaking just for myself, when I first started surfing FR (over ten years ago) I was a lapsed Christian, an agnostic. Over the intervening years I have sought to better understand the world and myself. The internet has been (perhaps literally) a Godsend to me, and FR has been the single most important site by far in my quest for the truth. I once read somewhere that I would know the truth and that the truth would set me free. This has come to pass. Thank you for your help in this quest, Jim. Please carry on, and you too, GGG.
If that means liberals, atheists, Darwinists, RINOS, etc, withhold their donations from FR, well, I guess we'll get along without them.
Jim, no one is suggesting that God be banished from the schoolroom. To do so flies in the face of the intent of the framers and their immortal words which I need not repeat but must do so to complete my argument:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed"
The framers are clear -- freedom is granted to all humans from God Himself (as opposed to suffered from governments created from man).
That is not the issue at hand. This particular thread O.P. basically states that "if we can find anything that TToE cannot address (mind you without any counter arguments to provide refutation) then TToE must fall and thus an Intelligent Designer must be the cause." Note no mention of God as that designer.
I know you do not feel that humans resulted from TToE. But yours is a philosophical/theological argument. That is fine, but the applicability to theology to science is attempting to "speak" (in Biblical terms) to a discipline which God himself created.
This line of attack is particularly ugly, since it attempts to use a combination of fallacies ("if any aspect of TToE fails, the entirety must fail") and the converse ("if any aspect of TToE is wrong, the only substitute is an "intelligent designer").
These fallacious conclusions may be satisfying but they meet neither logical analysis nor, more importantly, scientific muster.
Did God make Man in His Image? The Bible is clear (and Christians understand): YES. Did God use evolution to create what we know as Homo Sapiens? The scientific evidence of billions of artifacts and millions of scientists say (again, to Christians and Jews and deists) also YES.
They are not incompatible, Jim. They are looking at the problem in different ways.
But further, I ask you to look at what has been suggested in the OP.
God should be in the classroom -- but not as a magical agent in the scientific process.
Real America as intended, as nourished, as given and inherited from our fathers and mothers. Thank you Jim.