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Genuine science, by definition, must be questioned. Dogma must not.

The 'experts' agree. Much like global warming, evolution is not science.

1 posted on 03/27/2009 6:23:20 AM PDT by laotzu
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The tentative vote — a final one is expected today — will mean teachers and students no longer will be expected to discuss the “strengths and weaknesses” of evolution and the theory about the origin of life developed by Charles Darwin 150 years ago.

This is supposed to be a good thing for education? Good grief.

2 posted on 03/27/2009 6:36:18 AM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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evolutionism is a secular humanist religion....dogma that is ENFORCED on school children.....disgusting....


3 posted on 03/27/2009 6:38:05 AM PDT by raygunfan
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Yep. What’s wrong with some debate in the classroom? Do the evos really want to steal taxpayer’s money and give them no say on what gets taught to their kids? Of course, my kids aren’t going to learn about the supposed “strengths” of that idiotic religion of evolutionary. But I will have to pay for other kids to learn it despite the first amendment.


4 posted on 03/27/2009 6:39:24 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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Sigh - the new Dark Ages are upon us, when the religious fanatics will be burning intellectuals in the streets, and all thought will be banned.

/obvious sarcasm


6 posted on 03/27/2009 6:41:59 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (True nobility is exempt from fear - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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Excellent. The biological-science version of the “Fairness Doctrine” goes down in flames.


8 posted on 03/27/2009 6:43:32 AM PDT by steve-b (Intelligent design is to evolutionary biology what socialism is to free-market economics.)
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I don’t see why it should matter either way. The reality is that there are no weaknesses in evolution. The weakness exist only in the minds of those who are incapable or unwilling to understand.

The curriculum wouldn’t change either way.


11 posted on 03/27/2009 6:58:57 AM PDT by Filo (Darwin was right!)
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Genuine science, by definition, must be questioned. Dogma must not.

Those that question dogma like the earth is round or that it revolves around the sun are considered nuts, not scientists.

14 posted on 03/27/2009 7:05:03 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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Go for it, secular humanists. You will encourage more Christian families to enroll their children in parochial schools or join the thousands who home school in Texas. You will then have ZERO influence on the education of thousands of future Texans, the best and brightest ones at that.

With every child who leaves the government school system, dollars are subtracted from the system. With every family that puts their child in parochial schools or home schools, there is less need for them to vote for the next government school bond issue. And thus the government indoctrination grows weaker.

God works in mysterious ways His wonders to perform.


19 posted on 03/27/2009 7:09:22 AM PDT by kittymyrib
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The 'experts' agree. Much like global warming, evolution is not science.

And a made up story that would do MARVEL COMICS proud is.

21 posted on 03/27/2009 7:10:07 AM PDT by org.whodat (Auto unions bad: Machinists union good=Hypocrisy)
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Yeah but.....the creationists really blow it for us with everything being created 6000 years ago. Dinosaurs, (which the material evidence proves existed) walked around with the newly created humans. I guess they went extinct because Noah couldn’t fit them on the ark.

ID is rational. It is the extremists that ruin the scenario.


31 posted on 03/27/2009 7:21:51 AM PDT by Dudoight
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“They don't want them indoctrinated with one side. They know that evolution has weaknesses.”

SUUUUUUUUUUURE they do. "They" just want "their" side.....Creationism poorly veiled as ID.....to be the indoctrination in the SCIENCE room. ...but hey, it'd be a much shorter class "their way", so the teachers could go on to teaching all about Global Warm....errr Climate Change. Afterall, "God did it" doesn't take very long to say.

Only a fool says that the ToE has no weaknesses, but only a different fool says that a "weakness" disproves the broad theory.

36 posted on 03/27/2009 7:26:55 AM PDT by ElectricStrawberry (27th Infantry Regiment....cut in half during the Clinton years...)
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It’s no setback to homeschoolers.


38 posted on 03/27/2009 7:28:05 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (I can reach across the aisle without even using my sights.)
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Strength of evolution?

It allows for accurate explanation and prediction of natural phenomena involved in the changing of living organisms in response to environmental pressures.

Weakness of evolution?

It refuses to confirm the absolutist literal interpretation of those with weak religious faith.

41 posted on 03/27/2009 7:32:29 AM PDT by allmendream ("Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be redistributed?")
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Genuine science, by definition, must be questioned. Dogma must not.

The last chapter of Darwin's Origins book is about problems with his theory. That sounds like questioning to me.

The 'experts' agree. Much like global warming, evolution is not science.

So all those hours we spent in the biology lab doing experiments that demonstrated how gene pools change over time were not science? What were they? Home ec?

48 posted on 03/27/2009 7:38:47 AM PDT by freespirited (Is this a nation of laws or a nation of Democrats? -- Charles Krauthammer)
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Biology is a soft science when compared to mathematics or physics. Macro evolutionary theory has always been based and taught that we started off as a single cell and morphed our way up the food chain to man. That single cell part of the theory has failed to pass the mathematics test of probability and the physics test of thermodynamics and 50 years of experimental effort trying to get raw aminio acids to create something as complex as the DNA molecule. This is the athiest / secular humanist religion in a nutshell. Random events create complex systems out of raw materials sloshing around in the ocean therefore God and religion are unneccessary.

The problem they have is that Darwin had an overly simplistic view of the single cell and they had an overly ambitious desire to hijack his theory to create their own religion. It would be nice if they would simply concede after all this time that no one knows where or how we came about and therefore it will always be an article of faith to believe one way or the other.


86 posted on 03/27/2009 10:14:36 AM PDT by Gen-X-Dad
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I tell Global Warming fools that Nature obviously wanted humans to evolve and gave humans the specific tools to alter their environment and that if Global Warming exists by Human’s own hands then it is Nature’s fault for evolving Humans in the First place.

(Similar to the circular logic that globull warming folks believe in)

Since Goofball Warming Fools claim their believe in evolution this gets some of them blank stares as they try to contemplate the advanced concept of logical reasoning. Some of them do retort back that Nature made a mistake when evolving us, to them I say right back “How much Hubris has man to question Nature in it’s decision to evolve humans in the first place?” This usually shuts them up.


114 posted on 04/03/2009 8:16:16 AM PDT by GraceG
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