Posted on 05/30/2002 7:40:53 AM PDT by Gladwin
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:34 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Two House Republicans are citing landmark education reform legislation in pressing for the adoption of a school science curriculum in their home state of Ohio that includes the teaching of an alternative to evolution.
In what both sides of the debate say is the first attempt of its kind, Reps. John A. Boehner and Steve Chabot have urged the Ohio Board of Education to consider the language in a conference report that accompanied the major education law enacted earlier this year.....
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This is what Karl Marx actually did. He critiqued the work of Adam Smith and demonstrated both theoretically and practically that capitalism cannot be but a short lived system full of overwhelmingly bloody wars wherby the world would be cut up into various trading zones for the manufacturing countries to colonize once their factories had reached peak capacity and their home countries had been saturated with their product. Then, both the colonial culture, requiring the product, and the colonial presence, must be spread out upon the world, leading to world wars, and then finally to wars of natioal liberation.
Marx's writing focused on the criticism of capitalism to arrive at these conclusions and he wrote very little concerning the achievement of socialism and communism. He lent his name to Engles works, wrote the Communist Manifesto for the, I believe, Second International, meeting in the hope of staving off WWI, and admitted due to the prodding of the Lenin's of the time that perhaps a small elite well-organized party could take control of the state during a weak national period and drive the country through the socialist period and into the communist period by force. But basically, Marx merely critiqued capitalism and projected it's evolution into socialism and then communism over the next several centuries, which fact is quite obviously occurring, unfortunately.
To project Marx out to his furthest reaches is to find Man as nothing more than evolution into worker ants with various specialities with the children learning from the parents or the collective, almost hivelike.
In any event, this is just one example of critique without providing a substitute, since Marx's critique stated that capitalism would turn into socialism and then communism by itself, without outside help, he offered no substitute to his critique. He did though add knowledge to the theory studied, by shredding it to confetti, which the world cannot acknowledge, although it is all too obvious at this point. That secular humanism being taught to your kids in public school is a school of thought founded by that very Karl Marx you were brought up to despise. His early works founded humanism, and are among the most interesting for a new reader (of Marx). Few people realize that virtually every aspect of our lives is controlled by his thought, or, being a materialist, that virtually every aspect of our lives are controlled by conditions he foresaw and we think exactly as he predicted we would in relation to those conditions.
With the phrase "God works in mysterious and unknowable ways" you have your answer.
Humans, as bipeds with insufficient skeletal systems that closely mimic qudrapedal skeletal systems (even have the "tail" bone on our rear-ends), are meant to suffer the resultant pain and agony of being supported by said skeleton.
Why? You cannot know and shouldn't be asking. Suffice it to say that God wanted all of us to be unhappy in this regard.
Same goes for any other number of seemingly incomplete designs. i.e. The Flightless Penguin with useless wings (on its way to becoming completely aquatic?)...The Ostrich/Emu with similarly useless wings...Whales with hind leg bones completely enclosed inside its body...Nipples On all male mammals (what is that about anyway?)...the list goes on and on. The only answer from the ID camp....God wanted it that way.
EBUCK
That reminds me of a really bad, bad joke but God wouldn't want me to tell it ... yet.
Not exactly 999, but worth a bump
argument from authority
then you have to teach what I heard last week in Sunday school.
strawman
surely one can do better.
No problem:
"If you are going to teach the Darwinist view that organisms may look like they were designed but weren't,..."argument from authority
"...then you have to allow for the possibility that they look like they were designed because they were designed,"
strawman
surely one understands "satire"
Why not? Is he sick? Are you planning to "take care of him"?
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