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Evolution a theory? That's right

Posted on 01/22/2005 8:47:40 AM PST by JCRoberts

Since material from this newspaper cannot be used here, follow the link to this editorial about how dumb the paper thinks "creationists" are.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050122/OPINION03/501220316/1110


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy; US: Iowa
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The whole premise of this editorial is that the authors of the sticker don’t know the definition of “theory,” and the judge should have ordered them to write it 100 times. However, the Register let the judge off the hook! According to the brilliant editorial board, “Those who want to discredit evolution by calling it a theory are actually declaring that it's almost certainly true.”

Last time I checked, the definition of “fact” was not, “Something that is almost certainly true.” Therefore, the stickers on the books are correct. The judge is the one who should be lambasted for not knowing the definitions of words. The sticker, factually speaking, is correct. The Register’s own editorial validates it. Evolution is a theory, not a fact.

But that doesn’t fit in with the view of the obviously secular editorial board of the Des Moines Register, does it? No, because it’s a standard ploy by evolutionists to denigrate creation by insinuating that “creationists” are not intelligent enough to differentiate between fact and theory.

Oops! There I go again. I forgot. There is no difference. The words are interchangeable. Didn’t Joe Friday used to say, “Just the theory, ma’am”?

Here’s the part they don’t get because they can’t relate. Believers don’t need to get into a semantic battle over the word theory in order to discredit evolution. Words will not make us change our faith. Even if some scientists come out tomorrow and say evolution is 100% fact, I won’t believe them. I will simply believe God created the theory of evolution to weed out the non-believers from the true believers.

That’s a fact.

1 posted on 01/22/2005 8:47:41 AM PST by JCRoberts
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To: JCRoberts
Didn’t Joe Friday used to say, “Just the theory, ma’am”?

Heh-heh.

2 posted on 01/22/2005 8:50:43 AM PST by BenLurkin (Big government is still a big problem.)
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To: JCRoberts
Theory

NOUN: pl. the·o·ries
3 posted on 01/22/2005 8:53:55 AM PST by jcb8199
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To: JCRoberts

I encourage you to send this to the Des Moines Register Editorial Department.


4 posted on 01/22/2005 8:58:55 AM PST by VIDADDICT ("A news man is always fully-cocked, Andy." - Les Nessman)
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To: JCRoberts

The DSM Register is a New York Slime owned Birdcage Liner.


5 posted on 01/22/2005 9:05:16 AM PST by zzen01
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To: JCRoberts

It's just a matter of time until the Democrats try to bring back literacy tests as a requirement to vote. Of course, the test will be designed to only screen out those 'ignorant' Republican-Christian-conservatives.


6 posted on 01/22/2005 9:10:19 AM PST by Spok
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To: JCRoberts
I always love how these journalists - who probably never took a science course outside of freshman biology - always become scientific geniuses when they write about evolution.

It would fun to get a panel of editorial writers on TV and ask them questions about Darwin/evolution/DNA and listen to their answers.
7 posted on 01/22/2005 9:11:21 AM PST by rcocean
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... God created the theory of evolution to weed out the nonbelievers from the true believers.

Well, finally, in print here it is, once and for all.

If there was a Darwin Award for the written word, your statement would rank right up there.

8 posted on 01/22/2005 9:16:30 AM PST by muleskinner
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I've never read it but I read recently that Louis Pasteur did quite a bit of work in debunking evolution and that Einstein did not believe it either.
But the objections to evolution of those two great scientists are not taught in our public schools.


9 posted on 01/22/2005 9:21:23 AM PST by jjmcgo
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To: PatrickHenry

"Festival of Mirth" ping


10 posted on 01/22/2005 9:26:38 AM PST by longshadow
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To: jjmcgo
I've never read it but I read recently...

Which is it? Did you read it or didn't you read it?

11 posted on 01/22/2005 9:28:50 AM PST by LoneRangerMassachusetts (Some say what's good for others, the others make the goods; it's the meddlers against the peddlers)
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To: jjmcgo

Pasteur yes, I believe he had the principle that debunked the idea of "Spontaneous Generation", it was only a few hundred years ago. Its also the only way evolutionists can explain how they believe living things were created, the idea that nonliving things can somehow produce living things.


12 posted on 01/22/2005 9:31:34 AM PST by MikeConservative
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To: longshadow

I don't think this thread qualifies for the ping list.


13 posted on 01/22/2005 9:35:55 AM PST by PatrickHenry (<-- Click on my name. The List-O-Links for evolution threads is at my freeper homepage.)
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts

Yes, at times I am able to express myself clearly and sometimes I devolve into someone who can't.
I meant to say that I had read that Pasteur debunked evolution but I had not read his papers to that effect.


14 posted on 01/22/2005 9:38:27 AM PST by jjmcgo
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To: PatrickHenry
I don't think this thread qualifies for the ping list.

Perhpas not, but it sure is amusing.

15 posted on 01/22/2005 9:38:57 AM PST by longshadow
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To: JCRoberts
Didn’t Joe Friday used to say, “Just the theory, ma’am”?

Exactly. All these "scientists" have are their earthly "theories" -- what we're talking about is FACT. Its right there in the Bible -- that it is true. Why can't these people see that?!
16 posted on 01/22/2005 9:46:47 AM PST by rhtwngwarrior
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To: muleskinner

If there was a Darwin Award for the written word, your statement would rank right up there.



Explain yourself, please. I am familiar with the Darwin Awards...not familiar how this wopuld apply, even if there were awards for the written word.

And how did you do those fancy italics, anyway? I haven't evolved that much on FR.


17 posted on 01/22/2005 9:53:54 AM PST by JCRoberts ((Apparently dead))
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“creationists” are not intelligent enough to differentiate between fact and theory.

Neither can evolutionists. For talkorigins.org, evolution is both a theory and a fact. Have your cake and eat it too.
18 posted on 01/22/2005 9:58:42 AM PST by microgood (Washington State: Ukraine without the poison)
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To: JCRoberts
Creationists stupid? I think not...
Obstinate ? Stubborn ? Possibly..

( I tend to agree with you on your interpretation.. God created the Universe.. It only stands to reason God created evolution.. Why argue over the details? )

19 posted on 01/22/2005 10:39:08 AM PST by Drammach (Freedom; not just a job, it's an adventure..)
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Yep, just a theory. Like the... oh, say, Theory of Gravity. I guess since that's just a theory, we might all suddenly fly off the Earth. After all, it's just a theory, not a fact.

Or the Theory of Relativity. I mean, who knows if those atomic weapons will really work or not? It's just a theory.


20 posted on 01/22/2005 10:51:56 AM PST by Joe Bonforte
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