Posted on 02/15/2006 12:53:18 AM PST by jennyp
Birds and horses live in an alternate two-dimensional universe.
No. jennyp understands what the phrase "encouraging students to seek evidence for and against evolution" is code for
Let's see you name one supporter of ID from a scientific position who endoses a Young Earth
And like the ignorant/illiterate 'earth is flat' people of centuries ago, YOU keep repeating nonsense that has been totally refuted.
The myth that Christians in the Middle Ages thought the world was flat was given a massive boost by Andrew Dickson White's weighty tome The Warfare of Science with Theology. This book has become something of a running joke among historians of science and it is dutifully mentioned as a prime example of misinformation in the preface of most modern works on science and religion. The flat Earth is discussed in chapter 2 and one can almost sense White's confusion that hardly any of the sources support his hypothesis that Christians widely believed in it. He finds himself grudgingly admitting that Clement, Origen, Ambrose, Augustine, Isodore, Albertus Magnus and Aquinas all accepted the Earth was a globe - in other words none of the great doctors of the church had considered the matter in doubt. Although an analysis of what White actually says suggests he was aware that the flat Earth was largely a myth, he certainly gives an impression of ignorant Christians suppressing rational knowledge of its real shape.
And one-eyed people.
But be warned. The Christianist IDjers are going to assume you are one of them
Feel free to link to those reports. I'd like to read them...assuming they're not spin created by whacko cults that promote home schooling.
I'm glad to learn that, with the help of Copernicus, the Church eventually rejected the flat earth concept.
You must not know many home schooled kids. I have five kids, four of whom either went to or are going to public schools. I know dozens of home schooled kids. The home schooled kids social skills and their ability to hold a conversation without all the ya know, dude, like, and peer pressure baloney that comes from having to constantly perform for the approval of kids your own age is far superior to 95% of the public schooled kids that I come across. Were it not for athletics - in which home schooled kids are not allowed to participate even though their parents pay for them - my kids would not be in the public schools. The other day, the head of the English Department told my 12th grade daughter's class to go to moveon.org if they wanted to know "what was going on." They are reading "1984" and supposedly Bush's NSA spying program epitomizes what Orwell was talking about. Last night, at a basketball game, I sat and listened (and then spoke up) as a group of teachers and administrators were yukking it up about Chaney's hunting accident.
By the way, every homeschooled kid that I know has excelled as an adult. Many that I know have started their own businesses or gone on to college and excelled and then become great employess or successful business people.
Our public school is rated as one of the top public schools in the state of Ohio. I coach a number of sports there so I am exposed to teachers, administrators and students all the time. The public schools, even the good ones, are failing and if the parochial schools in your community are inferior to the public schools, they must be pathetic. I would have to see it to believe it.
By the way, I have no doubt that these teachers and administrators that I'm talking about are evolutionists and wholeheartedly support the Democratic candidates in every race - from dog catcher to President.
"We have evidence that a Flying Spaghetti Monster created the universe. None of us, of course, were around to see it, but we have written accounts of it. We have several lengthy volumes explaining all details of His power. Also, you may be surprised to hear that there are over 10 million of us, and growing. We tend to be very secretive, as many people claim our beliefs are not substantiated by observable evidence. What these people don’t understand is that He built the world to make us think the earth is older than it really is." FSM.
He's a Creationist. Why would you expect anything else?
Funniest. Post. Ever.
Your experience in one Ohio community cannot be extrapolated as the norm for the rest of the country.
Hooray! Dover PA and Ohio .... on the Leading Edge of American Science! Yessiree yoohpee! Nee How!
See post 75. I included links just for your benefit.
I did post detailed information. Were you able to read it?
No but my experience is the exact opposite of your claim. How many home schooled kids do you actually know? Based on your previous comment, I doubt that you know any.
The public schools are a huge failure - in almost every way that is measurable. They spend too much money, they produce sub par students, they indoctrinate a definite socio-political and economic viewpoint. They are a major reason that the Democrats - who have no ideas - can still win elections in this country. My daughter's U.S. history text book has more pages dedicated to Woodstock than to the Constitution. The same textbooks are used by public schools all over the nation. Without the NEA and their daily indoctrination of the youth of America, the Democratic party as we now know it would either have to change dramatically or cease to exist.
I don't know one homeschooled kid who lacks the social skills to excel as an adult and I know many home schooled kids. I doubt that you can say the same.
ID is not even the MOST LIKELY scenario, because you are still dealing with NEGATIVE evidence. ID is basically are argument from astonishment.
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