Posted on 06/22/2006 1:28:41 PM PDT by Tim Long
Anyone who denies that there is a major bias at every university against anyone who questions evolution is seriously dishonest. I am not pushing ID or anything else here. I simply see that evolution is a major underpinning of the leftists and everything else they have ever demanded allegiance to has been wrong. It is not suprising to me that they do everything they can to prevent anyone from seriously evaluating it.
The true holocausts happened centuries ago with the introduction of germs and pathogens which Native Americans North and South encountered when the Conquistadors and other people who were immune or resistant to certain microbial strains walked into their neighborhoods.
The complete and utter devastation of those cultures is barely recognized in our American "His Story" books. So you are right if you knew it at all. Natural holocausts do occur. The man made ones are in my view much worse because of that old free will thingy.
As for this newest holocaust, it seems to aimed toward the free thinking and open minds of persons who simply do not, and likely will not ever come to terms with the notion that "something came from nothing."
Currently, in public education programs, there is little or no tolerance for contrary opinion concerning fundamental principles which will not be surrendered because some hack judge with a gavel decrees it should.
That is not science, that is a holocaust on thought and ideas.
You are fooling yourself, and so the rest of us all are supposed to play this silly game too?
Well, there is no crying in baseball, and certainly intellectual terrorists should be given no quarter for using ugly tactics such as censorship, blacklisting, and personal attacks on dissenters of their faith.
Whoever posted the line about Galileo's travails with the primitive Church was right, but for all the wrong reasons.
You Thought Police are exactly who we have been warned about.
Go on and change the meanings of words, and suppress ideas. You obviously are feeling quite smug up there on your high and mighty platform made of sand. That is why, the Courts have to make all the rules for you.
What? I thought she spent the whole book talking about the Jersey Girls.
Maybe not every university., but the trend is what it is. You are in effect being dishonest by ignoring or denying it.
No, but I think we would be MUCH worse off if ONE treatment for pneumonia was accepted at ALL medical schools and ANY researcher or professor who even thought about questioning the "approved treatment" risked having his career and/or funding eliminated.
I think that Bishop Usher who came up with the 6006 BCE date--from adding up all the dates of begetting and dying in the Bible---said the Moment of Creation was on October 13, a Tuesday, at 2:30 PM. I am not sure whether this is on the Julian Calendar or Gregorian Calendar.
It is interesting that the good bishop never looked at Hindu or Buddhist chronologies. And he was totally ignorant of Maya and Inca chronologies. And in all the bishop's life, he never once heard about "radioactive decay" or even the periodic table of the elements, much less the understanding of sperm, ova, DNA, genetics, or germs.
Witch doctors do not have a good record in setting broken bones without X-rays; bishops do not have a good record in estimating the age of the earth.
You mean you have failed to understand any of the scientific reasoning on the age of the earth since you do not have a firm grasp on science and math.
Not really. This has been posted probably more than once per month for ages. Thoroughly discounted. Some of the signatories have acutally spoken out as being misrepresented.
All schools of social science are leftist. They do not permit dissent. Does that make their policies correct.
I submit that dissent is not permitted, consequently, the trend is meaningless. Saddam won 100% of the vote when he faced election. He also did not permit dissent. Did that make him the people's choice?
I would rather see Evolution strengthened as a theory by having serious, funded scientists and researchers trying to poke holes in it and find inconsistencies in it.
Physics has made great strides in the past 100 years because many competing theories were proposed and argued by competent, funded people. Some right, some wrong! Understanding of the "origins of species" (in my opinion) has made far fewer advances because it has become a religion and heresy is not permitted.
Correct. We should teach that pneumonia is too complex to have an origin other than God and that man should just pray to God to cure him and not waste his time trying to find a medical and scientific reason for pneumonia or it's cure. Back to the dark ages we go ...
That's 4004 BC. Does the fact you added an "E" reveal any bias?
This is happening every day but I seriously doubt you would desire to see Evolution strenthened, right?
You have a false premis. Supporter are not terrified that someone may SCIENTIFICALLY consider another alternative. We welcome that. What we detest is idiots parading religion as science and posting falsehoods in order to push their agenda.
I am devoutely Christian, and lean toward "Somehow, God did it!", but my preference is ALWAYS to know the truth. I disbelieve Evolution because of the tactics of its supporters. If Evolution is the correct answer, I would prefer that I be convinced of it.
At one point the Church said the Earth was the center of the universe, scientists said "Uh........no." Scientist were right.
Really, we could all use another laugh.
Neither can gravitational theory. So what your point?
Oh, Stultis, please introduce me into the brotherhood of evilutionists. The mysteries of which you speak are earnestly sought. I yearn to know why every aspect of radioactive decay is controlled by the great satan and misleads us poor humans. I yearn to know how so much water vapor could condense, releasing 540 calories/mole in the great flood, without cooking poor Noah.
Indeedy, your nefarious conspiracy is interesting. If inducted, do I have to swear never to mention the 2nd law of thermodynamics? Do I have to give up faith in leeches to cure gout?
WND!
WND rates almost as high as The National Enquirer IMHO.
Well now. The word 'invented' implies that logic is bounded by the dimension of time and that there was some length of dimension 't' that logic did not exist.
Since God is not bound by time but is eternal, then (by your own statement of terms) logic cannot have been 'invented' by God because that would mean that there was some time (t) when God was not logical but somehow stumbled onto the concept of 'logic', recognized that it was something that did not exist but was needed and decided to 'invent' it (presumably through 'illogical' thought since that is all that could have existed at that time). This does not seem to be possible since recognizing a missing need and deciding to create it is itself a 'logical' process.
OTOH, your question may be an example of the inadequacy of human reasoning, in which case it only serves to illustrate man's ability to conflate mutually exclusive ideas into a single irrational question with no real answer.
It isn't even a real question.
Well, you think about it, anyway.
They mutate using recombination. Why do CRIDers think TOE says something from one kingdom can change into something else from another entirely different kingdom?From what I know, scientists and taxonomists are still debating which kingdom a virus fits into.
Those damn scientists. Everything was so much easier to classify under the "kinds" system. (and before anyone says it, yeah I'm aware that Carl Linnaeus was probably a creationist that believed in God. )
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