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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
KEYWORDS: creation; crevolist; evolution; religion
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The whole premise of this editorial is that the authors of the sticker dont 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 Registers own editorial validates it. Evolution is a theory, not a fact.
But that doesnt fit in with the view of the obviously secular editorial board of the Des Moines Register, does it? No, because its 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. Didnt Joe Friday used to say, Just the theory, maam?
Heres the part they dont get because they cant relate. Believers dont 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 wont believe them. I will simply believe God created the theory of evolution to weed out the non-believers from the true believers.
Thats a fact.
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posted on
01/22/2005 8:47:41 AM PST
by
JCRoberts
To: JCRoberts
Didnt Joe Friday used to say, Just the theory, maam? Heh-heh.
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posted on
01/22/2005 8:50:43 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(Big government is still a big problem.)
To: JCRoberts
Theory
NOUN: pl. the·o·ries
- A set of statements or principles devised to explain a group of facts or phenomena, especially one that has been repeatedly tested or is widely accepted and can be used to make predictions about natural phenomena.
- The branch of a science or art consisting of its explanatory statements, accepted principles, and methods of analysis, as opposed to practice: a fine musician who had never studied theory.
- A set of theorems that constitute a systematic view of a branch of mathematics. Abstract reasoning; speculation: a decision based on experience rather than theory.
- A belief or principle that guides action or assists comprehension or judgment: staked out the house on the theory that criminals usually return to the scene of the crime.
- An assumption based on limited information or knowledge; a conjecture.
I don't see anything in there about it being "as close to true" as it can be. Maybe they were talking in the relativistic sense...
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posted on
01/22/2005 8:53:55 AM PST
by
jcb8199
To: JCRoberts
I encourage you to send this to the Des Moines Register Editorial Department.
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posted on
01/22/2005 8:58:55 AM PST
by
VIDADDICT
("A news man is always fully-cocked, Andy." - Les Nessman)
To: JCRoberts
The DSM Register is a New York Slime owned Birdcage Liner.
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posted on
01/22/2005 9:05:16 AM PST
by
zzen01
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.
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posted on
01/22/2005 9:10:19 AM PST
by
Spok
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.
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posted on
01/22/2005 9:11:21 AM PST
by
rcocean
To: JCRoberts
... 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.
To: muleskinner
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.
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posted on
01/22/2005 9:21:23 AM PST
by
jjmcgo
To: PatrickHenry
To: jjmcgo
I've never read it but I read recently... Which is it? Did you read it or didn't you read it?
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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)
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.
To: longshadow
I don't think this thread qualifies for the ping list.
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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.)
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.
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posted on
01/22/2005 9:38:27 AM PST
by
jjmcgo
To: PatrickHenry
I don't think this thread qualifies for the ping list. Perhpas not, but it sure is amusing.
To: JCRoberts
Didnt Joe Friday used to say, Just the theory, maam?
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?!
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.
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posted on
01/22/2005 9:53:54 AM PST
by
JCRoberts
((Apparently dead))
To: JCRoberts
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.
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posted on
01/22/2005 9:58:42 AM PST
by
microgood
(Washington State: Ukraine without the poison)
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? )
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posted on
01/22/2005 10:39:08 AM PST
by
Drammach
(Freedom; not just a job, it's an adventure..)
To: JCRoberts
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.
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