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The attack on evolution
The Economist ^
Posted on 10/07/2002 12:44:39 PM PDT by wallcrawlr
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previously accepted facts Thank God most kids go to Sunday School before they hit public school.
That way they have a chance at realizing what is/isn't fact.
Twist that however you want.
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To: wallcrawlr
But what happens if superior schools insist that previously accepted facts have become mere theory?Evolution has always been a theory and never a fact. It is a good theory as measured by the number of attempts to refute it. Its value is not in its ultimate validity or lack thereof but in its ability to generate debate and discussion. Odd that this writer would not recognize that. I think he has his own agenda.
To: johniegrad
Scientific theory is a bit more than theory as laymen understand it. It contains a working basis of generally accepted, though not always provable facts. Unfortunately, evolutionists too often greet even the mildest of sceptism with the most scurrilous of ad-hominem attacks. In my view, if their is a scientific question open for debate, it should be done so in its merits, not on the position of evolutionism vs creationism. To do otherwise invites the charge that evolutionism is more a religion than actual science.
To: Frumious Bandersnatch
In my view, if their is a scientific question open for debate, it should be done so in its merits, not on the position of evolutionism vs creationism.The specific details of evolution -- everything from specific lineages, the mechanisms of mutations, and the details of selection, are, and always have been open for debate.
Evolution is a bit like the O.J. Crime scene. You can never prove a historical fact in the same sense that you can prove a mathematical theorem, but people who take the time to see the evidence come to a conclusion.
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posted on
10/07/2002 1:10:45 PM PDT
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js1138
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They're comin' thick 'n fast.
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posted on
10/07/2002 1:15:10 PM PDT
by
Junior
To: Buck Turgidson
To: Junior
Evolution is a criminal conspiracy...
and I see in the near future there is going to be a new civil rights revolution happening.
There are enormous injustices and injury to levy and exact!
To: All
We need a civil rights revolution...
specious/martian/alien factless preferences have destroyed---
free speech/thought...religous liberty---FREEDOM...
human/American life...rights---society/values.
To: f.Christian
Evolution is a criminal conspiracy... Another vast conspiracy I'm proud to be a member of.
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posted on
10/07/2002 1:26:42 PM PDT
by
js1138
To: All
Originally the word liberal meant social conservatives(no govt religion--none) who advocated growth and progress---mostly technological(knowledge being absolute/unchanging)based on law--reality... UNDER GOD--
knowledge being absolute/unchanging--personal as opposed to public...forced/repressed---POLITICAL!
Religous/faith liberty is gone...thanks to evolution/liberals(stealth religion/science)!
To: js1138
Welcome!
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To: wallcrawlr
General Evolution is an unproven theory, many would say a disproved theory. After a century and a half, it looks less likely than when Darwin first promoted it.
The most dedicated proponents of evolution are newspaper writers and editors, politicians, educational theorists, and dogmatic atheists, not real working scientists.
Few scientists will speak out against evolution, because they don't want the grief they would bring themselves if they offended the evolution fanatics. But few speak out for it, either. Thousands teach evolution in the schools, because it is a required subject, but relatively few have dedicated scholarly careers to it.
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10/07/2002 1:33:24 PM PDT
by
Cicero
To: js1138
Creation/God...REFORMATION(Judeo-Christianity)---secular-govt.-humanism/SCIENCE---CIVILIZATION!
Originally the word liberal meant social conservatives(no govt religion--none) who advocated growth and progress---mostly technological(knowledge being absolute/unchanging)based on law--reality... UNDER GOD---the nature of GOD/man/govt. does not change. These were the Classical liberals...founding fathers-PRINCIPLES---stable/SANE scientific reality/society---industrial progress...moral/social character-values(private/personal) GROWTH(limited NON-intrusive PC Govt/religion---schools)!
Evolution...Atheism-dehumanism---TYRANNY(pc-religion/rhetoric)...
Then came the SPLIT SCHIZOPHRENIA/ZOMBIE/BRAVE-NWO1984 LIBERAL NEO-America---the post-modern age
To: f.Christian
I'm consistently/amazed! that you keep posting/ranting(foreign-like syntax/multilingual?). This undermines/(borderline-invalidates?) that you have anything of consequence/importance to say(exposit?).
Complete, understandable sentences are your friend.
To: wallcrawlr
The losers have already begun worrying aloud that this will hurt Cobb County's reputation as a place where children can get a good education. Having evolution mentioned as a disputed theory along with other ideas of the origin of man should be the least of anyone's concerns about their child's "education". It seems clear that anyone who would worry about such is more interested in indoctrination than education. Kids can't read, speak english correctly and understand math, but mentioning theories other than evolution may harm a school's reputation as giving a good education? Typical looney arguments from the God-haters.
I think the article unintentionally got it right when it called them "losers".
To: f.Christian
Evolution is a criminal conspiracy... and I see in the near future there is going to be a new civil rights revolution happening. There are enormous injustices and injury to levy and exact!
Another good one... this time I used the online translator for f.christian english to korean to english:
The crime conspiracy where is the evolution... From that place and me citizenship revolution happening south this it is new inside near future it is going, it sees. Under the negating which is enormous and reserves, there is injury will demand!
Do creationists realize that if a peer reviewed scientist were to come forth with one iota of evidence supporting creation, he'd be on every magazine/paper cover, lauded with awards, glory and money, and most assuredly would become not only a hero to religious people everywhere, but a respected revolutionary thinker up there with Einstein and Hawking? What possible conspiracy is there?! Sheesh.
To: Joe Bonforte
I use p*** off parties for...
lighter---fluid!
To: whattajoke
Evolutionist have never had concrete evidence of any of their fables. That is because "The earth is the Lord's and its fullness, the world and those therein." Many are called to receive His intelligence, but few are chosen - no wonder so many ape lovers.
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posted on
10/07/2002 1:43:36 PM PDT
by
Hila
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