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To: mdmathis6
I don't think Creationists are going to picket a high school chemistry class!

Based on my experience with creationists over a few years in these threads, the truly hard-core variety, or full-blown creationists, would do exactly that. (Evolution first, then the rest.) They already don't like geology, because geologists think the earth is billions of years old (and they were coming to that conclusion before Darwin). They don't like astronomy for the same reason. They don't like physics because they don't like the results of radiometric dating -- how horrible that it supports the age of the earth! And they definitely don't like the speed of light, as it indicates the universe is more than 6,000 years old. As for chemistry, the example you used, well ... they already don't like organic chemistry, because they don't like how a complex molecule can self-assemble itself. They much prefer that angels are required to do such work. Whenever a creationist realizes there's something in science that doesn't jibe with his personal reading of scripture, he'll oppose it. Guaranteed.

152 posted on 06/13/2005 6:00:01 PM PDT by PatrickHenry (Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. The List-O-Links is at my homepage.)
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To: PatrickHenry

"{Based on my experience with creationists over a few years in these threads, the truly hard-core variety, or full-blown creationists, would "


Well most of us who tend toward a Creationist view wouldn't attack the basic sciences. We would argue more against those who attempt to twist the sciences in attempt to support socialist, enslaving utilitarian policies that would destroy age old values and to weaken the family structures of this nation. If evolution had remained just some dusty bit of educational flotsom the way some people viewed history or Spanish class... in other words just some subject to get thru school in order to pass, most folks wouldn't even pay attention to it.

Yet some have attempted(not necessarily science trained either) and continue to twist the science of evolution to fit social policy, to even justify moral dissolution of our nation. And how-ever luddite it may appear to you, that is what many religious folk are opposing....not Evolution for Evolution's sake , but rather the virtue numbing effects such a deliberate twisting of the science has had on our nation!

The rights and priledges you and I enjoy in discussing this interesting topic were birthed from a Judeo-Christian consenses via our constituion and Bill of rights...not a modern scientific consenses!


155 posted on 06/13/2005 7:16:37 PM PDT by mdmathis6 (Even when a dog discovers he is barking up a wrong tree, he can still take a leak on it!)
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