Posted on 12/11/2001 7:08:01 PM PST by FoundationAndEmpire
Real Americans, real conservatives are not so obsessed with people they disagree with that they call them the Taliban (which seems to have replaced Nazis for the time being).
You're being as ignorant as Julian Bond.
Doesn't mince words.
They had just come from talking about homsexual behavior and AIDS, for pete's sake? How's that for logic?
LOL. Like the Bible was a Science book. It was a History book. Science *does* back it up, BTW. The "facts" in school textbooks which support evolution have been disproven for sometimes a hundred years. Even Evolutionists are at a loss as to what to replace them with. So they don't. They can't take them out, because then you're left with... (gasp) creation ex nihilo. Can't have that.
was = is
It's a book of myths, yes. Like Aesop's Fables. Tries to teach some cultural lessons. People read it into some sort of religion -- call everything in it the absolute truth, etc. But most of it is bunk.
Evolutionary theory is doing just fine, thanks. Contrary to the rants of the fundies (odd how it is only fundies who claim evolution is broken.)
The beginning of life itself, abiogenesis, of course occurred so long ago, 3.5 billion years, that there is no evidence left of the process, so we do have to speculate on that. Further back, the creation of the universe itself also represents an informational wall that we can't go beyond. But that doesn't make "God" the winning theory either because that doesn't explain where "God" came from. The problem of first causes isn't solved by adding yet another layer. Who created the universe? God? Who created God? etc etc etc
There is a Dog Food TV Commercial....from Purina....
It's about a 'guy' taking care of his little dog....
The first half-second of the commercial displays a blank screen with the words:
'Proud Mom'
Well, no, many evolutionists are having serious trouble with it. It doesn't surprise me that you haven't read any of that.
Michael Behe for only one example...
But it's no use arguing. You've already decided what's possible and what's not.
Guess we could end up shouting "is not, is too" about this point till we're green in the face. No point arguing about who the "real scientists" are.
Now that they have been laughed out of court, suddenly the decided to do a little "investigating" in the physical world.
There's a court that's going to decide whether we came from apes or not? Yeah, they did a great job in deciding whether or not the life of the fetus is worthy of protection. But you may or may not agree with me on that.
They come in with an outcome in mind and use selective evidence to get there. They aren't convincing anyone but themselves and fellow true believers.
Scientists with a political agenda or some other motivation would never do that, would they? I'll buy that as soon as they make up their minds on whether or not we're warming the earth with our cars.
Evolution was discovered -- it wasn't a religious mandate.
It wasn't discovered by accident - every scientific theory begins with a hypothesis. The burden of proof is upon the scientist.
Evolution persists because the evidence for it is overwhelming.
Once again, we must agree to disagree. Lots of evidence for evolution that has been disproven remains in biology textbooks, and evidence contrary to evolutionary theory is omitted.
The ONLY people who disagree do so because they are instructed to do so by their Bible. Pure and simple.
Wrongo. And lots of people who agree do so because the press has placed evolutionary theory on the same "common knowledge" pedestal along with other gems like "abortion is a fundamental women's right and everybody agrees except misogynist religious fruitcakes," "J. Edgar Hoover was a cross-dressing homo," and "Clinton's impeachment was only about sex."
Honest discussion of certain issues is discouraged, even though they are far from settled. And the sheeple in this country are more worried about who's winning on Monday Night Football than whether they're being cheated by their government, or lied to by the press. They just accept what their newspaper or TV news tells them without reflecton or question. And the press gets away with deception on an Orwellian scale.
I used to try to reconcile evolutionary theory with creation theory by arguing that evolution was God's plan for creating man in his image. I'm no expert or scientist, but the deeper I dug, the more I was convinced that the idea that man is descended from monkeys is bunk.
Megadittos!!! :-)
And their writings have appeared in which journals? Self-publication by pamphleteers hardly count for much. Oh, I forgot, there is a vast Satanic conspiracy to surpress the massive body of cretionistic evidence.
lol....fossil thumpers support anything that takes a dump on Christians . How promiscuous same-sex action promotes the survival of the species, they'll never know, but at least it ticks-off their shared enemy.....the Bible Thumper.
The only important battle has already been decided.
You guys crack me up.
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