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Ga. school board OKs teaching creationism
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| Friday, September 27, 2002
| CNN
Posted on 09/27/2002 5:59:21 AM PDT by Heartlander
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:01:19 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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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."
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To: Right Wing Professor
What would you call the combination of religion--state--science...evo paradise?
To: Right Wing Professor
What do you think the "invisible hand" of Adam Smith was all about---darwin?
To: Right Wing Professor
Wouldn't a conservative be for the privitization of education---values...
as opposed to state control/engineering?
To: 4ConservativeJustices
For me, I find it much easier to believe in the existance of a loving God, than it is to believe that trillions of "coincidences" just happened.
What you think is 'easier' to believe as opposed to a strawman of evolutionary theory has no bearing on reality.
For all you know, it was creation by a not-so-loving God.
To: f.Christian
ARGH! Whe doesn't FR have an 'IGNORE' option!?!
To: Dimensio
For all you know, it was creation by a not-so-loving God. 224 posted on 9/28/02 1:13 PM Pacific by Dimensio
For all evolutionists know...leave the creationists out of that blunder!
To: Dimensio
Evolutionists are on auto pilot programmed to avoid reality!
To: PatrickHenry
Lotta incoherent babble to skip over. Placemarker.
To: Condorman
"That's a mighty broad brush you're wielding..."
Sorry. I stand corrected. I abhor stereotypes and generalizations.
Maybe I should have said, "I have seen some libertarians...."
To: All
All the dumbing down that evolution--liberalism does makes themselves stupid...blind!
To: hoosierskypilot
Maybe I should have said, "I have seen some libertarians...." Then you would have a high probability of being accurate.
But for the most part your fellow Freepers are a decent lot... Even the libertarians.
To: Non-Sequitur
I think it's fair if both have disclaimers. That's scientifically and intellectually honest. If they teach evolution as a fact that's a shame and a sham, since even evolutionists teach it's a theory.
To: f.Christian
To: Conservative til I die
If they teach evolution as a fact that's a shame and a sham, since even evolutionists teach it's a theory. Terminology is important. The observable fact of evolution is that new species appear over time, and are apparently related to older species, as is evidenced by the fossil record and by DNA. The theory of evolution explans these facts as being caused by mutation and natural selection.
To: Condorman
Have anything to say...put it up on the FR---I don't do evo links except for the PH trash funnies!
To: f.Christian
Have anything to say...put it up on the FRAs contrasted with your informative, well-constructed, fact-filled posts? Don't think so.
I don't do evo links except for the PH trash funnies!
I fail to see where that's my problem. I guess you'll just miss out on all the fun.
To: Condorman
Doesn't this say it all...
Terminology is important. The observable fact of evolution is that new species appear over time, and are apparently related to older species, as is evidenced by the fossil record and by DNA. The theory of evolution explans these facts as being caused by mutation and natural selection.
all blobbery--slobbery--robbery...just more schlock from the evo mill---factory---machine!
To: f.Christian
Very persuasive. Why the Cobb Co. School Board didn't use the "blobbery--slobbery" argument just boggles the mind.
To: Condorman
CLASSIC...certifiable!
I really don't care who is crazy as long as they are tame. But the religious are not tame. They insist upon imposing their lunatic beliefs upon the rational and the children of the rational. That's where you get yourselves in trouble. If you have any confidence in what you are saying at all, be content to keep it to yourselves, as atheists are.
381 posted on 8/26/02 5:42 AM Pacific by AllSmiles
Yeah...as atheists are?
It gets 'better'...
Sure. All domesticated animal husbandry is proof of evolution but in the case of planned animal husbandry, man, rather than environmental influences, play the role of selectivity. Try to think this through, which, I realize, may not be easy. If you cross a poodle to a poodle, do you get a wolf? (Knock, Knock)
Now: Do you care to give me scientific proof that God exists?
I'm not kidding. You people amaze me.
294 posted on 8/25/02 12:02 PM Pacific by AllSmiles
To: Condorman
No one doubts the improbability of events. Your existence is highly improbable. So is mine. Think of all the events in just the past 100 generations which could have caused any of our ancestors to behave differently than they did. Yet all the past events happened, naturally, step by step, and here we are, so mere improbability is not much of an issue.
"The facts upon which evolution theory is based are rather well established. Mutations happen. They really do. And new species appear over time, really. And they appear in form and DNA to be related to pre-existing species. No joke, that's the evidence. In every generation, those best suited for the game of life are most likely to breed the next generation. Mutation and natural selection. And time, lots of time. They're the stuff of evolution."
"The results are always going to be seen as improbable in retrospect, but that's how things happen. It's such a reasonable explanation that there's no need to wave it all away and grasp instead for an external "designer" for whom there is no evidence at all.
"So I don't see ID as an "honest attempt" to deal with improbability. Rather, it's a clever attempt to confuse the poorly trained public with slick (but unscientific) patter."
353 posted on 9/19/02 2:24 PM Pacific by PatrickHenry
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