Ga. school board OKs teaching creationism

CNN.com ^ | Friday, September 27, 2002 | CNN

[Heartlander]

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) --A suburban Atlanta school board Thursday night voted unanimously to allow teachers to introduce students to different views about the origins of life, among them creationism.

The Cobb County Board of Education, the state's second-largest school board, approved the policy change after limited discussion, calling it a "necessary element of providing a balanced education."

[dmcnash]

No mention of Intelligent Design which is the competing theory now, not creationism?

Evolution cannot be proven so it must be accepted on faith (in Science.) The people pushing evolution behave much like other religious zealots.

[Heartlander]

(((Ping)))

[Heartlander]

I agree!

[AndrewC]

I expect the result of this decision will be the prohibition of the teaching of any theories other than flavors of Neo-Darwinism at some point in the future.

[general_re]

indexing

[Genesis defender]

Uh oh. Another crevo thread. I predict at least 300 replies.

Try not to get too much blood in the ring. Now, shake hands and fight!

[balrog666]

the Cobb County School District believes that discussion of disputed views of academic subjects is a necessary element of providing a balanced education

Opening the door for a postmodern curriculum based on astrology, numerology, and (any and all) religions.

[Non-Sequitur]

...some middle and high school science textbooks include a disclaimer telling students that evolution is a theory and not a fact.

Are they going to have to issue a disclaimer saying that creationism is a theory and not a proven fact? How are the adherents to creationism going to react to that?

[AndrewC]

Uh oh. Another crevo thread. I predict at least 300 replies.

I'm not too sure of that number. The atmosphere has noticeably chilled.

[Physicist]

Another humiliation for both conservatism and the United States of America.

[PatrickHenry]

So that everyone will have access to the accumulated Creationism vs. Evolution threads which have previously appeared on FreeRepublic, plus links to hundreds of sites with a vast amount of information on this topic, here's Junior's massive work, available for all to review:
The Ultimate Creation vs. Evolution Resource [ver 19].

[We evolution types interrupt this thread to bring you the following important message:]
George W. Bush is the greatest! Down with bolshevism! Defeat the socialistic dems! Win back the Senate! God bless America!
[And now, let the thread continue ... ]

[Dimensio]

Evolution cannot be proven so it must be accepted on faith

No theory in science can be 'proven', but creationists never mention that -- they only bring up evolution. I wonder why...

[Dimensio]

But which Creation myth will be taught as "science" in the schools? The Christian creation myth is the most popular in the US, but other religions have their own stories that are equally valid.

[PatrickHenry]

The school board should have read this article in Scientific American:
15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense.
Which was the subject of this monster FreeRepublic thread:
15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense [THE FINAL DEBUNKING].

[f.Christian]

Posted by f.Christian to medved
On News/Activism Sep 8 2:35 PM #107 of 176

To: Dimensio
As I see it, evolution is an ideological doctrine. If it were only a "scientific theory", it would have died a natural death 50 - 70 years ago; the evidence against it is too overwhelming and has been all along. The people defending it are doing so because they do not like the alternatives to an atheistic basis for science and do not like the logical implications of abandoning their atheistic paradigm and, in conducting themselves that way, they have achieved a degree of immunity to what most people call logic.

488 posted on 7/29/02 5:18 AM Pacific by medved

Main Entry: log·ic

Pronunciation: 'lä-jik
Function: noun

Etymology: Middle English logik, from Middle French logique, from Latin logica, from Greek logikE, from feminine of logikos of reason, from logos reason -- more at LEGEND

Date: 12th century

1 a

(1) : a science that deals with the principles and criteria of validity of inference and demonstration : the science of the formal principles of reasoning

(2) : a branch or variety of logic

(3) : a branch of semiotic; especially : SYNTACTICS

(4) : the formal principles of a branch of knowledge

b (1) : a particular mode of reasoning viewed as valid or faulty

(2) : RELEVANCE, PROPRIETY

c : interrelation or sequence of facts or events when seen as inevitable or predictable

d : the arrangement of circuit elements (as in a computer) needed for computation; also : the circuits themselves

2 : something that forces a decision apart from or in opposition to reason < the logic of war >

- lo·gi·cian /lO-'ji-sh&n/ noun

[f.Christian]

Petroleum - the archetypal fossil fuel - couldn't have formed from the remains of dead animals and plants, claim US and Russian researchers1. They argue that... petroleum---originated from minerals at extreme temperatures and pressures."

Geologic columns/dating...what about the massive canyon on mars---no water/erosion!

The size---circumference of the Earth has gotten smaller(although at certain pts. it could have been changing/variable). During collapse large ridges---mountains would protrude upwards! Land wouldn't form evenly...continents would remain at higher levels above water level then plates would dry out---shrink/'sink' producing layered-canyons/basins/ravines...then cooled and hot sediments would form(rise) as the shrink/sink-ing would continue...producing more mountains/hills--'volcanoes'---to fill the receding gaps!

At the Grand Canyon older sedimentary levels are at the top and the fresher/newer ones below...those straight up 'buttes' came out of hole--soft spots in the plates like cake decorations---Ayre's Rock like a bubble in a blown tire.

All that erosion/sedimentary crap old age of the Earth is hooie-dooie!

There is not enough dust on the moon to support an old earth dating system!

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[f.Christian]

Geologic column---dating??

From the evolution textbook...

Why does it look like it does(grand canyon)?

"The reason that it looks the way does is due to the sequence in which the events that help to create it happened. We already know that there was once a very tall chain of mountains in the area that occupied the Grand Canyon. These mountains were, over many millions of years, eventually eroded away to form a level plain. Fluctuations in climate then caused the oceans to move in over successive periods and each time a new rock layer was deposited. The rock layers were deposited one on top of the other and sometimes there were long periods in between in which some of the upper layers were eroded away, sometimes completely."

"We already know that there was once a very tall chain of mountains in the area that occupied the Grand Canyon. These mountains were, over many millions of years, eventually eroded away to form a level plain.

That is called science..."we already know"!

Campfire stories! Junk!!

Evolution...tall tales/legends---big lies(no comprehension)!

But the effect is permanent---zombie brains---religion/ideology---BIAS!

Govt school religion---'science'!

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[f.Christian]

What's shakes at the bottom of the ocean?

You have to give up or give me the answer!