Posted on 08/20/2003 6:24:57 PM PDT by new cruelty
The debate continues over what information Texas biology books should present.
The Texas Board of Education is looking to pick the best science book for students.
Members of a campaign called "Stand Up For Science'' said it's meant to protect the accurate teaching of evolution in Texas high school biology textbooks.
The push was unveiled on Wednesday by some religious leaders, scientists and parents. It comes as the state Board of Education prepares to adopt new biology textbooks this fall.
Terry Maxwell, a professor of biology at Angelo State University, doesn't believe creationism should be in biology textbooks.
"Science uses evidentiary reasoning and it uses no other approach," he said.
Creationists generally believe earth was formed supernaturally by God.
Reverend Tom Hegar said while he believes in God's powers, those ideas need to stay at home or in the church.
"Faith and science are complimentary. Don't use faith to build your science. Don't use science to try to destroy or shrink my faith," he said.
Seattle-based Discovery Institute believes the theory of intelligent design should be in Texas biology books. According to the Institute, intelligent design is the hypothesis that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection.
Science backers say that's the same thing as creationism.
"Textbooks should fix embarrassing factual errors and tell students about the scientific weakness of neo-Darwinism as well as its strengths," Discovery Institute officials stated in a faxed memo.
Maxwell said two different ideologies make it harder for students to learn science.
"If you interject ways of knowing other than the way science is practiced by mainstream science you confuse children," he said.
Austin biology teacher Amanda Walker said evolution is the cornerstone for understanding the living world, and influences medicine such as prostate cancer, heart disease and AIDS.
The evolution proponents also criticized what they said are attempts to teach creationist theories.
The Board of Education can reject books because of errors or failure to follow the state curriculum.
The board will make its final decision on the biology textbooks in November.
People have until Thursday, Aug. 21, to sign up to speak at the final public hearing Sept. 10.
In July, the first public hearing brought 42 speakers who offered their opinions at the public hearing on biology, but only half of them were familiar with the particular books.
Board member Gail Lowe said then she was disappointed that many of the people who testified for or against certain textbooks hadn't actually read them.
"They seem to be here to express a viewpoint, but it doesn't seem to relate to the textbooks we're actually considering," she said.
They should just pick up a Bible and see how God said He did it.
Christians of this day need to be careful not to make the same mistakes we made in the past. That being, agreeing with conventional scientific understandings regarding the universe, despite it's contradictions to the Word of God.
1. Geo-Centric Universe
2. Flat-Earth
3. Pope's acknowledgement of Evolutionary Theory despite it's contradiction to the Word of God (This one has been a coup d'etat for Satan and his henchmen).
Christians should take Jesus' example to fight the lies of the enemy and use the Word of God as He did in Matthew 4. Eve's failure was she misrepresented God's words to Satan in the Garden.
God speaking in Gen 2:17, "But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."
Eve Speaking in Gen 3:3, "But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die."
Eve was not confident in her precise knowledge of the Word of God and she added the bolded phrase to what God said. This evident doubt led to Satan's victory in the Garden and over mankind.
The best scientists consider the Word of God as the authority and they make their discoveries and posit they're hypothesis's with that in consideration.
For a good list of God fearing scientists see DittoJed2's List.
What battle? Evolution happened, and is still happening. Spoken by a christian conservative with a brain.
When I was 16, I was on the verge of fluency, but I decided not to take 4th year Latin. Translations required too much homework, and by then I had discovered girls. I don't regret the decision. Also, I was never exposed to Horace, so my avoidance of your least-favored translation wasn't because of any knowing choice on my part. I was just blundering around.
et ego in arcadia vixi
No, it never did happen. Science has shown quite well the impossibility of one species transforming itself into another. Genetics shows us the impossibility of a mutation spreading throughout a species. DNA shows us the impossibility of a new useful gene ever occurring. Natural selection is only a destroyer, it cannot create anything.
Just about everything which evolutionists claim would enable species to transform itself into another has been scientifically shown to be false.
Sure. Most of the science crowd take that approach. But there are those who don't, thus the endless conflicts we encounter in the evolution threads. It's just the way things are.
Good advice for an evolutionist to follow.
...Don't use science to try to destroy or shrink my faith," he said.
My faith is in God's Word--a faith science won't destroy.
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