To: Mark in the Old South
Evolution is a theory, you said it and so did the stickers, so you explain the judges ruling? Because I can not, the nearest I can figure is the Judge worships evolution. You are leaving out half of the content of the sticker, and most of the content of what I said. Pretty much par for the course in these discussions. Let me try this again...
The sticker says "evolution is a theory, not a fact". While true, it is misleading. By this definition, no scientific theory is valid, since no scientific theory ever becomes a fact.
You have a very strange concept of the meaning of 'worship'. The judge ordered the school to remove an ignorant and misleading sticker from school textbooks. That is not called 'worship', it is 'reason'.
28 posted on
05/05/2005 2:58:10 PM PDT by
wyattearp
(The best weapon to have in a gunfight is a shotgun - preferably from ambush.)
To: wyattearp
You are leaving out half of the content of the sticker, and most of the content of what I said.And what business is it of a federal court as to what the content of a sticker is? The only jurisdiction under which the federal court is supposedly invovled in this matter is due to some sort of congressional law establishing a religion or prohibiting the free exercise of religion. Name the religion.
33 posted on
05/05/2005 3:06:22 PM PDT by
AndrewC
(Darwinian logic -- It is just-so if it is just-so)
To: wyattearp
Re: "You are leaving out half of the content of the sticker,...."
What content am I leaving out? The stickers said nothing you didn't say. They were on a text book that taught evolution not a Bible. They didn't refer the students to Genesis chapters 1-3. This is a good case where pointing out something must not be allowed even if we acknowledge it as a truth. It seems a truth that is so dangerous that it may foment doubt in the dogma. The crap is shaping up to be a Galileo moment for the evolution crowd.
To: wyattearp
The judge ordered the school to remove an ignorant and misleading sticker from school textbooks.
But the judge cited separation of church and state as his reason which is completely idiotic. It has nothing to do with that. The judge needs to buy a brain because he does not have one.
To: wyattearp
The sticker says "evolution is a theory, not a fact". While true, it is misleading. By this definition, no scientific theory is valid, since no scientific theory ever becomes a fact. That statement is nonsense. Nobody has claimed "no theory is valid". All that is going on here is some people don't want kids to understand evolution is a theory and not a testable fact because they don't what people to have minds open to other possibilities. The Catholic church tried this nonsense in the dark ages.
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