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God vs. Darwin: no contest
Boston Globe ^
| 08.08.05
| Cathy Young
Posted on 08/08/2005 8:49:04 AM PDT by wallcrawlr
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To: joyspring777
OK. It all looked like your text - there was no indication of that in your post.
To: rob777
The U.S. Constitution does not delegate any powers relating to education to the Federal government. What more need be said?The power to TAX is the power to destroy.
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posted on
08/08/2005 1:51:18 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
To: Elsie
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posted on
08/08/2005 1:53:16 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Liberals: Too stupid to realize Dick Cheney is the real Dark Lord.)
To: wallcrawlr
![](http://www.fox.com/kingofthehill/images/h_epi402.gif)
"Tell you what. Marx my words, that Darwin fellow was a freud!"
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posted on
08/08/2005 1:53:24 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
("In the end, nothing explains anything!")
To: bvw
No one HAS to attend the government school.But.........
EVERYone HAS to PAY FOR the government school!
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posted on
08/08/2005 1:56:30 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
To: Modernman; sandbar
What's to explain? Yeah!
We just changed our minds (I mean theory)
--EvoDude
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posted on
08/08/2005 1:58:02 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
To: proud_2_B_texasgal
I wonder what Mr. Darwin thought when he was suddenly in the presence of his CREATOR....
Surprised?????
Regarding this interjection, Martin Gardner writes:
"Darwin himself, as a young biologist aboard H.M.S. Beagle, was so thoroughly orthodox that the ship's officers laughed at his propensity for quoting Scripture. Then 'disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate,' he recalled, 'but was at last complete. The rate was so slow that I felt no distress.' The phrase 'by the creator,' in the final sentence of the selection chosen here, did not appear in the first edition of Origin of Species. It was added to the second edition to conciliate angry clerics. Darwin later wrote, 'I have long since regretted that I truckled to public opinion and used the Pentateuchal term of creation, by which I really meant 'appeared' by some wholly unknown process." [stress added] (Gardner, 1984)
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posted on
08/08/2005 2:00:52 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
To: Tax-chick
When did we not have public schools? We are protected, as a nation, by our high literacy rate. For all get out -- have you read the Legend of Sleepy Hollow? The main character is a school teacher. Washington Irving, the author, wrote in our early days of nationhood.
We've had public schools, in some form or another, since before we were a nation. We have always had a expectation of literacy among all citizens.
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posted on
08/08/2005 2:03:08 PM PDT
by
bvw
To: Right Wing Professor
It wasn't hard, therefore, to see imagine how multicellularity could have evolved. "SO we set up a test and zapped and prodded and shook the single ones and sure enough, they evolved into multies!"
Would THIS be a statement you make about your old science class?
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posted on
08/08/2005 2:05:07 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
To: Elsie
Try to keep up with the thread.
To: mudblood; P-Marlowe
what is the freerepublic's official stance on Creation/Evolution? I've seen no preference either way, and I've been here a long time.
Now if you asked if FR is biased toward Mormonism and the LDS organization: well; there's a different story!
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posted on
08/08/2005 2:08:25 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
To: bvw
Why do you assume that the existence of a schoolteacher implies a government school?
We've had public schools, in some form or another, since before we were a nation.
Link for that?
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posted on
08/08/2005 2:08:58 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Liberals: Too stupid to realize Dick Cheney is the real Dark Lord.)
To: Right Wing Professor
Therefore, the central premise of this book is that Volvox and its relatives provide us a unique window through which to examine the important roles that a few regulatory genes can play in both development and evolution, and gain fresh insights into a problem that has fascinated both developmental and evolutionary biologists for many generations: How do multicellular organisms with differentiated cell types arise from unicellular antecedents? Indeed!
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posted on
08/08/2005 2:13:50 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
To: Elsie
And everyone pays for roads, for defense, for a Navy, for things that a community, established according to its size and population need as a entity -- police, courts, public heath, measures, care for the poor, the destitute and sick, the incapacitated, burial of the dead. Not only must we and should we pay for the schooling of the next generation(s) we also must make sure there is a next generation.
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posted on
08/08/2005 2:15:14 PM PDT
by
bvw
To: Right Wing Professor
I just got sucked into todays TarBaby exercise, and are commenting as I read them......
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posted on
08/08/2005 2:17:19 PM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
To: Tax-chick
It implies a community that paid for him. New England communities, iirc, of a certain size were required by some law or charter to built a church. The church community would then form a school, and dun the community to pay for it. To me, that counts as a public school.
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posted on
08/08/2005 2:18:57 PM PDT
by
bvw
To: Elsie
No one HAS to attend the government school.
The working poor have a choice???
To: bvw
Well, it's irrelevant. We disagree on the proper scope of government, but that's fine!
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posted on
08/08/2005 2:29:54 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Liberals: Too stupid to realize Dick Cheney is the real Dark Lord.)
To: Tax-chick
To me, and as far as I can see, to history as well, the proper scope of government depends on population density -- a city has more natural duties of government than does a small town, as so on -- a village, a hamlet, a crossroads -- and last and least dense a rural township, a rural county -- those could well be, and maybe should well be, libertarian utopias.
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posted on
08/08/2005 2:34:25 PM PDT
by
bvw
To: bvw
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08/08/2005 2:36:36 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Liberals: Too stupid to realize Dick Cheney is the real Dark Lord.)
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