"Tell you what. Marx my words, that Darwin fellow was a freud!"
Posted on 08/08/2005 8:49:04 AM PDT by wallcrawlr
THE GOD VS. Darwin debate went to the White House last week when President Bush weighed in, stating in a roundtable interview with reporters that ''intelligent design" should be taught along with evolution in public schools. It's a move that has undoubtedly pleased the president's conservative religious base. However, it has also caused much unhappiness among those conservatives who want the Republican Party to be something other than a political arm of the religious right, including such strong Bush supporters as columnist Charles Krauthammer and University of Tennessee law professor/blogger Glenn Reynolds.
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OK. It all looked like your text - there was no indication of that in your post.
The power to TAX is the power to destroy.
Yes, exactly right.
"Tell you what. Marx my words, that Darwin fellow was a freud!"
But.........
EVERYone HAS to PAY FOR the government school!
Yeah!
We just changed our minds (I mean theory)
--EvoDude
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)
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.
"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?
Try to keep up with the thread.
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!
We've had public schools, in some form or another, since before we were a nation.
Link for that?
Indeed!
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.
I just got sucked into todays TarBaby exercise, and are commenting as I read them......
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.
No one HAS to attend the government school.
The working poor have a choice???
Well, it's irrelevant. We disagree on the proper scope of government, but that's fine!
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.
Excellent point.
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