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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"The main difference between theologians and scientists is that scientists change their theories when new facts become available."
Sort of right. Better: "The main difference between theologians and scientists is one admits they are religious and the other doesn't".
Smallpox was around way longer than Pasteur, but the Germ Theory of Disease has displaced previous explanations for microbe-caused disease.
So, that observation aside, what, exactly would you say is 'our' mission?
More interesting, by far, is the story of Darwin's daughter, Emma. The role of her life, and death at a very young age, in the formation of the natural selection part of Darwin's theory is little discussed.
In school, little Emma wasn't worthy of discussion when I was young. Little wonder why ...
I don't understand how the philosophy of evolution could be accorded the word "theory" when it comes to science. It is no such thing.
Evolution has been around way longer than the Bible.
Perhaps because you slept through your science classes.
Science is limited in it's truth seeking apparatus, for it chooses to disregard the Supernatural. Because it can't test it, it is forced to disregard it's influence on reality.
Shortsightedness prevails.
This was not at issue with the founders of Modern Science.
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No, the Word was with God in the beginning, before Creation
It would also be useful to learn what science is: The scientific method.
And you need to know this: What's a Scientific Theory?
While your at it, check this out:
15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense. From Scientific American
Morals. That's the answer to understanding this whole picture. Most die hard evolutionists know that at root, ToE, gives a free pass for all 'immoral' acts, especially sexual ones. How? By using 'science' to prove via ToE, that the origin of morals themselves must be mythical. The 'Origin of the Species' should be retitled to the 'Origin of the Amoralists'.
It is what you never see them yelling about that gives away what they support. Evolutions never scream 'Abortion is wrong' in any significant numbers. In fact, I've never heard of one confirmed atheistic evolutionist attack abortion on demand.
This thread looks pretty hopeless so far to me, but good luck!
God has been around way longer than that.
To reign in a government that is inexorably taking away our freedom. That involves several subsidiary goals, some of which were mentioned in the post, including:
1. Fix our educational system so that kids learn to read, write, and think. That implies stopping public schools from indoctrinating most of our young people in the thoughts and habits of leftism. (And if you think creationism helps meet that goal, then your definition of "learning to think" is different from mine.)
2. Win the War on Islamofascism, which not only protects our lives and property, but also helps us get to a day the government does not see the need to restrict freedom in the name of "security".
3. Cut the size of the federal government, with the long term intent of restoring it to its Constitutional limits.
There are plenty more, but it would start going very much off the topic of thread. I only went this far because you asked.
Which makes it a perfect philosophy and/or religion purposely foisted upon the young to further the aims of atheists, Communists and all those set upon destroying America
The important thing is to show the lurking world that conservatism isn't the same thing as belonging to the Flat Earth Society, and we don't all get our education from sources like this: Jack Chick's "Big Daddy?"
Well, we can fix that. I'm pro-life and think Roe v Wade should get overturned.
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