They're obviously all a bunch of hacks who got their "doctorates" from a correspondence school in Skokie, Illinois.
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As I see it, there is zero evidence of phyletic evolution. If we really evolved from common ancestors, to me the evidence says punctuated equilbria or special creation are the only possible theories.
Make lefties go even more batty than they already are by pointing out the contradictions involved in insisting upon Darwinian explanations for everything EXCEPT social and economic issues. How do they reconcile “survival of the fittest” with “No keeping score! EVERYONE’S a WINNER!”;)
If you are anyone has an alternative Scientific Theory (not a guess and not depending on the supernatural) that explains the billions of data points that currently support TToE, all of science is waiting.
No one has produced one to date.
Give us a modern horse found in the 12 million year strata and you have our attention.
Of course, you know a Scientific Theory is NOT a “grown up guess” right? And you know the Theory of Gravity is less understood nor documented than TToE, right?
I suggest we start with “alternative theories (guesses)” with:
The universes are made by Lord Brahma the Creator, maintained by Lord Vishnu the Preserver and destroyed by Lord Shiva. Since the universes must be destroyed before they can be recreated, Lord Shiva is called the Destroyer and Re-creator. These three gods are all forms of Supreme One and part of the Supreme One. The Supreme One is behind and beyond all.
Obviously science no longer measures the physical world, so it really measures nothing.
There is certainly room to doubt the theory of evolution as propounded by Darwin and still be well within the bounds of the scientific method. However, there is no room to suggest that the universe is less than ten thousand years old and still be within any reasonable definition of "science".
There are some interesting arguments in favor of creation that I am willing to entertain. But can we agree that once you start talking about a creator's morality and/or personal interest in humans that we have left science far behind? I might possibly be convinced that there is a creator, but with that as a given I would conclude that the creator is indifferent at best, malicious at worst.
Dark matter/dark energy is going to die.
String theory will die.
The big bang is dead.
The Primordial soup is dead.
It's dead Jim.
Untold billions of dollars to try to avoid “Design”.
Cro-Magnon had a larger cranial capacity than modern humans and an average height of about 6’. Evolution?
The theory of evolution is more rife with falsehoods and fabrications than man made global warming.
These laws COULD open the door to crackpot theories...and that's not to say pure Darwinism is not a crackpot theory.
But it also opens the door to religious dogma being taught as a counter-point to pure Darwinism which most folks don't subscribe to today anyway.
If I sent my kid to a PUBLIC school that taught Biblical Creationism as a counter-point to classic Darwinism, even I would sue them.
And I believe in Biblical Creationism.
People, don't open this door in the modern era. It will be the worst mistake your blindness ever made.
Want your kids to be educated in Islam (the version of Islam popular in leftist lore)? Want them to learn that Gaia is just another name for God?
Don't fall for the silly-assed aspirations of the zealots. It will not serve you well.
Which sex “evolved” first, male or female, and if a given organism could reproduce successfully with only one sex, what would be the point of it slowly evolving a second sex? The whole theory is goofy, frankly. It’s about time that students were taught to think critically about origins, and not be force-fed a secularist lie. Bob
I don’t have enough faith to believe in Darwinism.
Pray for America
Beliefs belong in church.
And more than 1200 scientists whose first name is Steve have signed a statement that says, "Evolution is a vital, well-supported, unifying principle of the biological sciences, and the scientific evidence is overwhelmingly in favor of the idea that all living things share a common ancestry." Steves account for about 1% of scientist; you can do the math. Not that the fact that more scientists named Steve express support for evolution than all those that expressed skepticism means that evolution is valid. But hey, they didn't start the numbers game.
The School Board in Rio Rancho, New Mexico went down this road in 2005. It didn’t end well, even though the whole intent was simply to allow discussion of alternative theories of the origins of life.
I was living there when this first went down, and I personally know 3 of the 5 members of the board at that time.
Some organization has a bunch of links about the issue here: http://www.nmsr.org/riorncho.htm