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What will Kansas high school graduates do when more of the top tier American universities refuse to accept students who have been been taught science based on Creationism?
This seems a little pie-in-the-sky. The evolutionists will never allow falsification to be discussed openly.
Well shoot, we allow evolution into the science classroom, even though it's a bunch of question-begging, circularly-reasoned, assumptions-required, philosophical-substantiated hocus-pocus. What's the problem?
Let the teachers decide and have educational freedom. A real open mind is not one that attempts to support one dogma or another. There are scientific studies that support the concept of ID through the study of the inherent complexity not just of biological organisms but also the universe. This would not be an issue if Scientists were not constantly trying to write atheism into Science and making stupid comments about how some such and such finding rules out the concept of God.
Society has been hurt by the idea of secular reductionism on origins not just of our species but also of our universe. I personally think it is good for people to believe themselves the product of divinity and thus aspire to that. The positives far out weigh any quaint ignorance that results and it surely is better than the bitter message that distilled calls the young to not think of themselves much better than animals. Are we surprised that they often behave worse.
Human exceptionalism I believe is important. Humanity even by the analysis of someone who sticks strictly to scientific analysis and avoids the best they can the philosophical debate can clearly see that Humanity arose under very special circumstances. It was not simple modification but radical change that resulted in modern humanity and we still do not know what caused that radical change from a strictly Scientific standpoint. We know that several groups of genes involved in the development of the complexity of human brains were the product of a “special event” and that also now the evolution of genes in human brains have slowed to a crawl. There are other interesting things. Humans have 46 chromosomes and apes have 48. It appears that in humans a special event occurred which led chromosomes to fuse.
http://www.hhmi.org/news/lahn3.html
There is no reason for scientists to take such a hostile view to human exceptionalism. If they did not take such extreme views not supported by the evidence in an attempt to purge a God they see in a negative light then the current battle in schools and society would not be such a divisive one. They can no more disprove God than a fool can blot out the sun by putting a bucket over his head and it is not their job to do such a thing. Their job is to present their findings and leave it at that not to prove an atheist dogma or a religious dogma. Yet I can not count the times I’ve seen them go off telling evolutionary stories as if to provide some primer on atheism to young minds.
That said I do not see any great threat from belief in a creator. The foundations of all the modern sciences were the result of the pursuits of mostly religious men. Newton, Copernicus, Galileo, Bacon and on and on all managed to make scientific progress all while to their deaths holding a belief in a Creator. People of faith can always take comfort that people of much greater intellect and study than they were believers and are believers.
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What next? Tying stones to the feet of "fallen women," believing that they are witches if they drown?
1) The Darwinists steadfastly refuse to admit that teaching about the origins of man has profound religious consequences for **all** the children in the classroom.
2) The Darwinists will defend government support and ownership of government schooling and are more than willing to have government force upon children their atheistic worldview and have taxpayers forced to pay for it.
3) On the other hand, the Creationists and IDers say: Give us our school tax dollars back so that we can send our children to private schools.
4) The Creationists and IDers say: Let the schools funds follow the child so Darwinists can send their kids to their schools and we can send our to our schools.
So?.... Who are the bullies here?
Answer: The Darwinists as always.
Both of these liberal groups love the very liberal Big Government Public School Monopoly run top-down by the far, far left.
Since when has opposition to science been a requirement for 'solid conservatism'? I vote every 4 years to keep these bozos off the board and I'll do that again this year.
That energy would be far better spent in:
1) Organizing for tax credits so parents could use their **own** school taxes for thier child in a private school.
2) Organizing so that other's could use their **own** school tax money to donate to a private voucher foundation or supporting another individual child.
3) Working to elect representatives dedicated to privatizing government education on every level. Let the school taxes fund the child, not the school.
We have enough Darwinists being cheer leading bullies for police threat government schools without helping them support the very system that oppresses so many.
Both of these groups hate American historical values, and both of these groups worship the Big Government public school monopoly.
The hardcore evolutionists on FR who claim to be small government libertarians are the worst liars of all.
The FR hardcore evolutionists worship Big Government at its very worst (public school monopoly) but claim libertarianism as a convenient, dishonest excuse for the extreme moral liberalism they spew on this conservative forum.
They are liars of the worst kind.
Then it's time to remove tax exempt status from religions who want to impose their religious political views on the public.
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