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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Oh, don't let us get started on our cousins ... or even worse, our in-laws!
The U.S. Constitution does not delegate any powers relating to education to the Federal government. What more need be said?
True, but she never suggested that the federal government involve itself in the issue. In fact, the only section where any level of government was mentioned, refers to school boards. "If some public school teachers are using evolution as a vehicle for atheist propaganda, that's outrageous, and a proper matter for school boards to deal with." I fail to see the point being made here.
There are many politically correct biologist who believe unless you deny God and worship Darwinism, you can not be a biologists.
Miss Young brought up the President. The only reason President Bush's opinion would matter is if the Federal government is in control of public education ... which, to a large extent, it is, through the leverage it exerts by imposing requirements (such as "special" education) and by granting or withholding funds, as through NCLB.
I am a strong christian man, but I say do not teach theology of any kind in SCIENCE class. Just like Darwins' guess should not be taught until they find the missing link.
I simply don't agree.
We elect a president because of the opinions he holds in a multitude of areas, because we believe his world view will be eventually impacting on our daily lives.
I do believe government is DEEPLY involved in education from the federal, state, county and local levels. That doesn't mean I agree with their involvement, as I agreed with Reagan in 1980 when the Dept of Education should have been terminated. The fact is, it is not. Citizens have one of two decisions, work to eliminate it or use it most effectively. We should expect those who work in the DOE to reflect the current President's opinions. Anything less is silly and naive.
Also, to say that ID is religion any less than evolution is also silly. Evolution is not science either. It is straight from Secular Humanism, which the Supreme Court ruled in the 1940's was a religion no different from any other.
The reason evolutionists are so fiercely against ID is they like their religious monopoly in government schools, and like any other monopoly...they don't want any competition whatsoever.
Because people of faith won't belong to the amen corner for Darwinism. Darwinists like Global Warmers don't like to have their theories questioned, so they weed out dissent in their ranks.
Evolution is the central unifying theory of biology. Without evolution, none of it, especially molecular biology and genomics, which is the single hottest area of biology, makes any sense.
You don't think gene sequencing has changed biology?
:-)
Come to think of it, there are a lot of heavy brow-ridges in my ex's family.
LOL! I'm an IT guy. The last bio class I had was 25 years ago.
What if you have no belief at all? What if you simply aren't interested in what you can't see (or detect)?
My favorite riot by evolutionist is when they say they won't debate with a creationist because they only debate scientists, and a creationist cannot be a scientist.
Talk about flawed logic based on one's own definition of terms to end debate. Evolutionists consistently use this kind of tomfoolery to avoid the real discussion or debate.
OK. I can accept that. I'm not into biology at all. Never have been. Don't know much about it at all. I'm just here asking seemingly obvious questions, but perhaps they're just dumb questions.
Can you post a link to some evolutionist who said that?
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