Posted on 02/05/2005 11:37:51 AM PST by gobucks
ELKTON - Charles Darwin and his intellectual descendants have taken a lashing here lately.
With the Cecil County Board of Education about to vote on a new high school biology textbook, some school board members are asking whether students should be taught that the theory of evolution, a fundamental tenet of modern science, falls short of explaining how life on Earth took shape.
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The politically conservative county of about 90,000 people bordering Pennsylvania and Delaware is joining communities around the country that are publicly stirring this stew of science, education and faith.
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At the Board of Education's regular monthly meeting Feb. 14, the five voting board members are scheduled to decide whether to accept the new edition of the book and might discuss Herold's call for new anti-evolution materials in addition to the book.
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The consensus in mainstream science, represented in such organizations as the National Academy of Sciences, the American Institute of Biological Sciences, the Smithsonian Institution and the American Museum of Natural History, was, in effect, captured in 31 pages of text and illustrations published in November in National Geographic magazine. In big red letters, the magazine cover asks: "WAS DARWIN WRONG?" In bigger letters inside, the answer is: "NO. The evidence for Evolution is overwhelming."
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Joel Cracraft, immediate past president of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, compared the scientific agreement on evolutionary theory to "the Earth revolving around the sun."
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Then there's the matter of teaching the meaning and method of good science.
"The issue is science," Roberts said. "What is science, and, if there's a conflicting view, does it meet the rigor of science we're seeking?"
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No, that is incorrect. My reference point outside of people is existence vs oblivion. The former is of inherent value whereas the latter is by definition the absence of value. Anything that ultimately promotes the former is preferred over whatever results in the latter. Then, the corollary is quality of existence (which itself promotes the duration and durability of existence). The rest follows.
One might also think of it as survival vs extinction - although that is a (very large) subset of the ultimate dichotomy.
After all, this is a crevo thread.
Yes, I meant only concepts, ideas, values, etc. That's why I posted the clarification when I realized how my preceding comment was misphrased.
Congratulations on uttering THE most achingly ignorant statement I've heard all day.
But then, it's been a quiet day.
Dan
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I checked out your home page and your Permanent Ignore List. Surprise, the only one on my list is also on yours too. It was a most painful and adolescent experience that led me to that conclusion.
Yes. We are wrong to call it a "theory" -- it is Holy Dogma!
Beg forgive us sinners, Your Most Holy Person, beg forgive us!
"I am suggesting however, that sexaul license without limitations is indeed what is at stake in the entire fight."
Good grief. The more we are like animals, the more we can be trusted to follow biological rules appropriate for our species: wolves and geese for instance are monogamous and faithful. They don't need any type of religion for that. Why do we?
The Holy Orders are out in force tonite. Bow before your better, jocon307! Or face the rack!
Then do you have a phase-space transform for it, a Lagrangian, a Fourier, whatever? You are such a pouffant. You must be the most well-dressed of the evo-Cardinals. Is your Worhip's Iron-Maiden painted pink?
Yes. We fanatical evo-nazis are out in force, engaging in the horrible, inexcusable practice of correcting factual errors uttered by creationists.
You are in a room with a man who tosses fifty coins in the air. They land on a table. You obsevre the coins on the table. They are all heads up. What's on the other side -- the hidden face of the coins? What is the cause?
We well-schooled modern scientists examined the garbage dump behind a long-dead potter's shop and infered that the pots had evolved over many years. The clear improvemnt in pot design and complexity in each higher strata proved it. While some few thought it strange that we did ot not encounter a pot in the process of evolving, however the cold hard fact is that Pot Evolution is a well proved, undeiable fact to our scientific community. Only fools deny it.
You just wait and keep re-reading that. It will evolve to suit your Holiness, I am sure of it!
" From an evolutionary point of view, abortion on demand for convenience is a defendable position."
That isn't true.An atheist evolutionist would certainly argue that those who practise abortion on demand would be less likely to survive under all but the most dire circumstances and would therefore be eliminated from the gene pool.
An evolutionist with a belief in God would be unlikely to argue for humans to destroy themselves.
Sexual licentiousness is a by product of civilization and is something to be addressed on its own. Transfering what is repugnant about the left and cultural and moral relativism onto evolution is not going to work. On the contrary, evolution is cultural absolutism - there is a correct way to do things - as we see when societies that engage in widespread improper conduct decline in their productivity and creativity.
Again I salute you for what, in a bygone day, would be presumed to be 'common sense'. Today you have my, and I suspect many lurkers', respect - for whatever that's worth.
Begging forgiveness your Holiness, I am dumb before the light of the Holy evo-Dogma. Do not burn my family at the stake, please!
LOL, I already bowed, to from many - one, he was very cool about it!
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