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US schools ban Darwin from class
The Observer (U.K.) ^ | 02/24/2002 | Robin McKie

Posted on 02/23/2002 5:41:34 PM PST by Pokey78

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1 posted on 02/23/2002 5:41:34 PM PST by Pokey78
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To: Pokey78
Hallelujah ! ! !

Let the anti-Christian bigots begin their diatribes.

2 posted on 02/23/2002 5:44:12 PM PST by Texas Eagle
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The journal says that a startling 45 per cent of Americans now believe God created life some time in the past 10,000 years....

That's an exaggeration. I'm a conservative Christian in the buckle of the Bible Belt and I've met very few who hold to that belief.

3 posted on 02/23/2002 5:46:41 PM PST by DallasMike
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To: DallasMike
Yeah, well, this country is larger than your belt buckle.
4 posted on 02/23/2002 5:51:38 PM PST by Texas Eagle
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To: Pokey78
despite research that has established the universe as 13 billion years old and that men and women are descended from apelike ancestors.

I guess if you keep repeating a lie, over and over, people start believing it.

5 posted on 02/23/2002 5:51:45 PM PST by GuillermoX
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A survey published in Scientific American... The journal says that a startling 45 per cent of Americans now believe God created life some time in the past 10,000 years

This is really hard to believe. I haven't seen the survey or its methodologies, so I can't judge it directly.

But in fact I haven't read Scientific American in many, many years, letting my subscription from the 60s lapse sometime in the 80s because they were becoming much too politically correct, too dumbed-down, and at times just, well, unscientific. I think it more probable this is another case of the same.

6 posted on 02/23/2002 5:53:07 PM PST by Eala
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To: GuillermoX
Didn't "research" once establish that the world was flat?
7 posted on 02/23/2002 5:53:46 PM PST by Texas Eagle
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To: DallasMike
I hold that belief.
8 posted on 02/23/2002 5:53:59 PM PST by Chewbacca
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To: Eala
This is really hard to believe. I haven't seen the survey or its methodologies, so I can't judge it directly.Have you seen the "research" that establishes that the world is 13 billion years old?
9 posted on 02/23/2002 5:55:08 PM PST by Texas Eagle
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To: *Education News;*Crevo_list

10 posted on 02/23/2002 5:56:30 PM PST by Libertarianize the GOP
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To: DallasMike
As a Catholic, I have no religious problems with the idea that God created the world some time long before 6000 BC, which was when Christians until the Renaissance thought the events described in the early chapters of Genesis took place. But as someone with an interest in science, I find Darwin's general theory of evolution simply incredible. It just won't wash. It's junk science.

As you say, I strongly doubt if anything like that number of Americans take Genesis that literally. Probably most of the "great unwashed" still believe what the talking heads say, and the talking heads say that Darwin is true. But the big three of secular modernism are gradually going down the tubes as people finally are beginning to wake up. First Marx was discredited, then Freud, and now Darwin. They were all anti-religious fanatics with axes to grind. They succeeded in fooling people who wanted to be thought up-to-date, enlightened, scientific-minded, and rational. But it was all a big con-game.

11 posted on 02/23/2002 5:57:26 PM PST by Cicero
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Yes. Evolutionists are flat-earthers. They frantically cling to an absurd belief; a belief that must fit around their agenda.
12 posted on 02/23/2002 5:58:46 PM PST by GuillermoX
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To: Cicero
Another crazy thing about Darwinism. If man evolved from apes and we still have apes and man......Then where are all those variations in between. They should still be around too. It really is nonsense.
13 posted on 02/23/2002 6:02:03 PM PST by Revel
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To: Pokey78
I am generally pro-voucher, but when I see this crap...

I don't want my tax dollars used to spread ignorant fairy tales...

14 posted on 02/23/2002 6:02:23 PM PST by unamused
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A survey published in Scientific American reveals that the doctrine of creationism - which holds that the origins of humanity and the Earth are recent and divine - is spreading in the world's greatest technological nation at a disturbing rate

Only to liberals

15 posted on 02/23/2002 6:04:52 PM PST by Centurion2000
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- even though Pope John Paul II reaffirmed his Church's commitment to the theory of evolution in 1996.

Did I miss something? Are Roman Catholics evolutionists?

16 posted on 02/23/2002 6:05:55 PM PST by Pan_Yan
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 They don't understand that creationism is a doctrine and is very different from scientific
theory. Equating one with the other is simply false. One is science, the other is religious belief.'

They understand.  The movement to
push theology into public schools is
is not based on rationality, but on
religious conviction, which, since
it is for 'your own good,' is allowed
to do whatever is necessary to prevail.

17 posted on 02/23/2002 6:06:09 PM PST by gcruse
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To: PatrickHenry; VadeRetro; RadioAstronomer; ThinkPlease; jennyp
deja vu bttt
18 posted on 02/23/2002 6:06:42 PM PST by longshadow
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To: GuillermoX
Yes. EvolutionistsCreationists are flat-earthers. They frantically cling to an absurd belief; a belief that must fit around their agenda.

You had the wrong word in there. Thought I'd help you out.

19 posted on 02/23/2002 6:08:24 PM PST by ThinkPlease
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That's correct, Texas Eagle - research established that the earth was flat and that man could not go faster than 60 miles an hour! What a crock.
20 posted on 02/23/2002 6:12:57 PM PST by Ken522
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