Posted on 03/07/2006 2:34:37 PM PST by SirLinksalot
Darwin smacked in new U.S. poll
Whopping 69 percent of Americans want alternate theories in classroom
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Posted: March 7, 2006 5:00 p.m. Eastern
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
A new poll shows 69 percent of Americans believe public school teachers should present both the evidence for and against Darwinian evolution.
The Zogby International survey indicated only 21 percent think biology teachers should teach only Darwin's theory of evolution and the scientific evidence that supports it.
A majority of Americans from every sub-group were at least twice as likely to prefer this approach to science education, the Zogby study showed.
About 88 percent of Americans 18-29 years old were in support, along with 73 percent of Republicans and 74 percent of independent voters.
Others who strongly support teaching the strengths and weaknesses of evolutionary theory include African-Americans (69 percent), 35-54 year-olds (70 percent) and Democrats (60 percent).
Casey Luskin, program officer for public policy and legal affairs with Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture said while his group does not favor mandating the teaching of intelligent design, "we do think it is constitutional for teachers to discuss it precisely because the theory is based upon scientific evidence not religious premises."
The Seattle-based Discovery Institute is the leading promoter of the theory of Intelligent Design, which has been at the center of challenges in federal court over the teaching of evolution in public school classes. Advocates say it draws on recent discoveries in physics, biochemistry and related disciplines that indicate some features of the natural world are best explained as the product of an intelligent cause rather than an undirected process such as natural selection.
"The public strongly agrees that students should be permitted to learn about such evidence," Luskin said.
The Discovery Institute noted Americans also support students learning about evidence for intelligent design alongside evolution in biology class 77 percent.
Just over half 51 percent agree strongly with that. Only 19 percent disagree.
As WorldNetDaily reported, more than 500 scientists with doctoral degrees have signed a statement expressing skepticism about Darwin's theory of evolution.
The statement, which includes endorsement by members of the prestigious U.S. National Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Sciences, was first published by the Discovery Institute in 2001 to challenge statements about Darwinian evolution made in promoting PBS's "Evolution" series.
The PBS promotion claimed "virtually every scientist in the world believes the theory to be true."
Well, then it seems you should check the light switch. It also seems that until you've checked the light switch, and established there are fingerprints there, you shouldn't go around telling people there's evidence on the light switch.
There you go!
Autocad® is a tool, just like a compass.
I was in an outfit that designed circuit boards during the transtion from mylar and tape to using computer programs. Similar problems occured.
They were naughty.
Why? Why would a nonfunctional part of the genome be similar?
You could, but you would have no way of verifying the analysis. And the further back you go, the higher the possibility of being in error.
Yes, but since we have a large volume of data, we can quantify the error.
Don't confuse the ideal and the adherants.
Most of us were REAL assholes before we became believers!
And also, if the fossil record results from the Flood the earth was extremely crowded before the Flood, to say the least. There cannot have been room for anything to move. Crammed like sardines. It isn't surprising that God got rid of most of them.
Already? Wow. And I thought it was cause and effect.
ROFL!
The judge in the Dover case was appointed by President Bush.
So you're accusing him of appointing crooked judges.
(Especially if it's ME!)
We are told, over and over to clean up our act. It ain't easy, 'cause you see, we have this SINFUL NATURE that is at the door; waiting to take over the moment we slip up in our self discipline.
Feedback is ALWAYS good; be it from a fellow believer or from someone who has not yet trusted in Jesus' promises.
Ah, President G W Bush, that well-known appointer of communist activist judges.
Before does not exclude after placemarker.
NIV 1 John 2:18-23
18. Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour.
19. They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us.
20. But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.
21. I do not write to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it and because no lie comes from the truth.
22. Who is the liar? It is the man who denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a man is the antichrist--he denies the Father and the Son.
23. No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also.NIV 1 John 4:1-3
1. Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
2. This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,
3. but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.NIV 2 John 1:7-8
7. Many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist.
8. Watch out that you do not lose what you have worked for, but that you may be rewarded fully.
I forget. Did your original post have a point, or were we just supposed to imagine one? Perhaps you can explain why creation science, or ID never bothers to look at all?
Sounds like I'm the anti-Christ by those definitions. Going down in the world.
Then this PROOF should be easy to replicate.
I do not doubt that you are convinced, but was it 'proof' that did it, or convincing ideas that told you how it COULD have happened?
Hey, we could apply this to physics class too. There might be some material somewhere that doesn't feel the force of gravity. If we could find that material, we could build all sorts of star ships. We should spend at least as much time on that possibility as teaching student about the objects that do obey 'universal' gravitation, which is, after all, only a theory.
And how do we know there are no unicorns, hmmm? Have scientists looked everywhere? Yep, zoology class needs unicorns.
Thank you so much, together we've just validated my original post...
Your simple happiness is charming.
Are you calling me a liar?
I've already answered your question.
Charming placemarker
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