[metmom]

There is no time or place in the history of science where the assumption of divine intervention has been necessary or fruitful.

Wrong. It was the belief in the Divine that brought Newton to the conclusion that the universe was indeed orderly and that patterns could be found through observation.

The claim that natural explanations cannot be found for a phenomenon is a mind killer. Teaching this to children is criminal.

So, you'd add that to criminalizing the teaching of creation in schools?

And after criminalizing all this behavior, evos wonder why people object to their efforts and don't buy the *It's all about just teaching science in science class.*?

People are not nearly as blind to evoatheist tactics, nor as stupid, as you think.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for sharing your insights, dear metmom!

Seems to me that criminalizing the teaching of the simple observation that there is not a natural explanation for certain phenomena is tantamount to the establishment of atheism as the state religion.

It is painfully obvious that for a thing to be "natural" it must exist "in" space/time and there is no natural origin for space/time itself. Ditto for inertia, information, etc.

If any jurisdiction attempts such a thing, I'll stock up on popcorn for when it hits the Supreme Court.

[js1138]

Wrong. It was the belief in the Divine that brought Newton to the conclusion that the universe was indeed orderly and that patterns could be found through observation.

Oddly enough, it is that belief that you are opposing today. An in one of the few cases where Newton was wrong, it was due to abandoning the assumption of an orderly universe.

[valkyry1]

People are not nearly as blind to evoatheist tactics, nor as stupid, as you think.

Nor are they nearly as smart as they think