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To: Boiler Plate
" Ok you lost me there. I used to build nuclear power plants so I doubt I hang with these evil doers. Do you have any specific cases in mind? "

BP, I don’t know who you’re referring to, the environmentalists that I mentioned or people like yourself insisting science class teach radically unscientific assertions consistent with your faith at any expense? I equated the two.

You know the old adage, “Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it.”? Introduce divine intervention into science, and it’ll be endlessly ridiculed, student’s interring it into formulas, suggesting it while brain storming, excusing failure with it, etc… Go ahead a put it into Calculus while your at it.

Many Christians reconcile evolution with creation by more or less believing God set it up. AFAIK, there are no good scientific theories on what created the big bang. God is about as reasonable as anything I’m aware of. I think you’re arguing for nothing, against something that’s of no threat and for something that’s of no benefit .

169 posted on 03/10/2006 7:49:20 AM PST by elfman2
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To: elfman2
You know the old adage, “Be careful what you ask for, you just might get it.”? Introduce divine intervention into science, and it’ll be endlessly ridiculed, student’s interring it into formulas, suggesting it while brain storming, excusing failure with it, etc… Go ahead a put it into Calculus while your at it.
Many Christians reconcile evolution with creation by more or less believing God set it up. AFAIK, there are no good scientific theories on what created the big bang. God is about as reasonable as anything I’m aware of. I think you’re arguing for nothing, against something that’s of no threat and for something that’s of no benefit .

EM2,
I don't know what or where you have studied, but your point is pure speculation at best and down right paranoid at worst. My experience simply did not even come close to what you are worried about. As far as "many" christians reconciling God and evolution, it seems apparent from the poll that it "many" is a smaller number than you speculate.

I asked you for examples of how a belief in God impedes science and you have not provided any. So here is a list of notable scientists how really did not have any problems introducing the concept of God into science. Maybe you have heard of some of them.

ANTISEPTIC SURGERY JOSEPH LISTER (1827-1912)
BACTERIOLOGY LOUIS PASTEUR (1822-1895)
CALCULUS, DYNAMICS ISAAC NEWTON (1642-1727)
CELESTIAL MECHANICS, PHYSICAL ASTRONOMY JOHANN KEPLER (1571-1630)
CHEMISTRY, GAS DYNAMICS ROBERT BOYLE (1627-1691)
COMPARATIVE ANATOMY, VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY GEORGES CUVIER (1769-1832)
COMPUTER SCIENCE CHARLES BABBAGE (1792-1871)
DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS LORD RAYLEIGH (1842-1919)
ELECTRONICS JOHN AMBROSE FLEMING (1849-1945)
ELECTRODYNAMICS JAMES CLERK MAXWELL (1831-1879)
ELECTRO-MAGNETICS, FIELD THEORY MICHAEL FARADAY (1791-1867)
ENERGETICS, THERMODYNAMICS LORD KELVIN (1824-1907)
ENTOMOLOGY OF LIVING INSECTS HENRI FABRE (1823-1915)
FLUID MECHANICS GEORGE STOKES (1819-1903)
GALACTIC ASTRONOMY WILLIAM HERSCHEL (1738-1822)
GENETICS GREGOR MENDEL (1822-1884)
GLACIAL GEOLOGY LOUIS AGASSIZ (1807-1873)
GYNECOLOGY JAMES SIMPSON (1811-1870)
HYDRAULICS LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452-1519)
HYDROGRAPHY MATTHEW MAURY (1806-1873)
HYDROSTATICS BLAISE PASCAL (1623-1662)
ICHTHYOLOGY LOUIS AGASSIZ (1807-1873)
ISOTOPIC CHEMISTRY WILLIAM RAMSAY (1852-1916)
MODEL ANALYSIS LORD RAYLEIGH (1842-1919)
NATURAL HISTORY JOHN RAY (1627-1705)
NON-EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRY BERNHARD RIEMANN (1826- 1866)
OCEANOGRAPHY MATTHEW MAURY (1806-1873)
OPTICAL MINERALOGY DAVID BREWSTER (1781-1868)
PALEONTOLOGY JOHN WOODWARD (1665-1728)
PATHOLOGY RUDOLPH VIRCHOW (1821-1902)
REVERSIBLE THERMODYNAMICS JAMES JOULE (1818-1889)
STATISTICAL THERMODYNAMICS JAMES CLERK MAXWELL (1831-1879)
STRATIGRAPHY NICHOLAS STENO (1631-1686)
SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY CAROLUS LINNAEUS (1707-1778)
THERMOKINETICS HUMPHREY DAVY (1778-1829)
VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY GEORGES CUVIER (1769-1832)

Of course there are many more, but I think that should suffice for now. And here is an excellent article to read that deals directly with your fears.

http://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=view&ID=427


Best Regards,
Boiler Plate

PS "Old Adage" is redundant, kinda like saying "Female Lady"

174 posted on 03/10/2006 8:20:16 PM PST by Boiler Plate (Mom always said why be difficult when with just a little more effort you can be impossible.)
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