High School Students' Attitudes Toward Creation And Evolution Compared To Their Worldview

Institute for Creation Research ^ | May 2002 | Steve Deckard, Ed.D. and Daniel Smithwick

[Aric2000]

Yes, he is indeed, it is rather amusing.

It's kind of like a child coming into a debate with the adults, at first the adults are forgiving, I mean, come on, it's a kid and he seems to be trying.

Then the kid gets juvenile, then the adults leave one at a time, throwing their hands in the air.

THen the kid is standing there wondering where everyone went, and finally saying, oh, I guess that means I won.

[rustbucket]

Bookmark for later reading.

[jennyp]

Remedy, do you represent the Nehemiah Institute in any way?

[Physicist]

Thanks for the ping. I know I haven't been participating much lately, but I do read these threads when I'm alerted to them.

Lately I've been spending much of my time on Distributed Proofreaders doing volunteer work for Project Gutenberg. Try it; it's a gas. Reclaiming the Public Domain is important, easy, and fun. Even better, every keystroke creates something of permanent value.

[f.Christian]

To: plusone

ps ...


How can you go from a primordial sea filled with bacteria to dinosaurs (and everything else in between)?

ph ...


Time. Enormous amounts of time. And a fluctuating environment. And mutations. Some of which just happen to be beneficial at the time they appear (those that aren't, presumably most of them, get washed out). We are at the tail end of a long line -- a very long line -- of fortuitous mutations. Our kind will never happen again. I think that makes us very special, very rare, very precious.


126 posted on 05/19/2003 7:44 PM PDT by PatrickHenry (Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.)


... Time

... Enormous amounts

... Time

... just happen

... a long line -- a very long line

... very special, very rare, very precious.

... fortuitous mutations

fC ...

Tautology --- mumbo jumbo !

abracadabra ... PRESTO --- gypsy science !

ps ...


How can you go from a primordial sea filled with bacteria to dinosaurs (and everything else in between)?


fC ...

How we can go from a primordial sea filled with bacteria to dinosaurs (and everything else in between)?

ph ...

... Time

... Enormous amounts

... Time

... just happen

... a long line -- a very long line

... very special, very rare, very precious.

... fortuitous mutations

fC ...

... mad man --- mad science formula ... "just happens" !

[CobaltBlue]

>> But from what I can see of the mini test it is of little value.<<

Junk science. We shouldn't be surprised. One more pathetically failed attempt to dress up religious beliefs as science from the creationists, who specialize in it.

[f.Christian]

Funny ...

you got the knock off (( rags ))---

and you criticize the genuine (( tapestry ))!

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Secular voters favored Gore over Bush by an almost two-to-one margin.

Since most leftists are atheists this is not a surpising result. It's always good to have data though.

[Ben Chad]

Throw down the jam till the girls say when...

[Remedy]

do you represent the Nehemiah Institute in any way?

No.

Article was posted to demonstrate that people acquire a worldview/perspective/philosophy-of-life from which they base their attitudes and actions on. Article doesn't imply that everyones' worldview is 100% non-contradictory, nor that everyone is immune from hypocrisy or incapable of altering their perspective as a result of experience, reason, new data, or old data revisited.

Article roughly correlates with America Fifty/Fifty & Our Secularist Democratic Party (Long, Important Analysis), which shows that secularists and those whose world view is similar to secularists (modernists/mainline apostates), have a strong tendency to think in terms of and vote for a socialist, rather than a Republican form of gov't.

If public education continues to promote an evolutionary worldview and its appurtenances, while the churches continue to teach apostate doctrines & theistic evolution, then society will continue the long march away from self-government, which is prerequisite to Constitutional Republicanism, and toward Fascism, corruption and my 'Democratic' Party.

The existence of anomalies among those with Christian Conservative views and secular liberal views, indicate that a small number of people are capable of ariving at a correct conclusion from a faulty/incomplete premise or vice versa, i.e.:

• reason + experience = constitutional republic as optimal form of gov't
• bible + reason + experience = socialism as optimal form of gov't

Article was probably intended for conservative/moderate Christians only, since most others would have neither the inclination to read it nor the capacity to care about or understand the purpose.

[CobaltBlue]

Au contraire - I love both God and science. You, on the other hand, reject God's creation, the marvellous process of evolution.

And, as long as we are having a dialogue, are you really a fruitcake and can't help yourself, or do you just play like it? Enquiring minds want to know.

Gotta go to court, don't feel bad if I don't respons for a while.

[PatrickHenry]

Lately I've been spending much of my time on Distributed Proofreaders doing volunteer work for Project Gutenberg.

Fascinating! Most commendable. However, it's not for me. Working with documents is so much a part of my everyday life that I don't want to do that kind of thing in my spare time. What I do instead is try to read up on what folks like you are doing. So I'm always a few steps behind.

[f.Christian]

cb ...

One more pathetically failed attempt to dress up religious beliefs as science from the creationists, who specialize in it.


46 posted on 05/30/2003 5:23 AM PDT by CobaltBlue

fC ...

I believe whole heartedly in science ...

the religous // ideological belief of science I reject is evolution !

One more pathetically failed attempt to dress up religious beliefs as science from the EVOLUTIONISTS, who specialize in it.