Another PatrickHenry choice expert!!
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Could it be because it is not junk!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
New Yawk Times
Posted on 10/14/2002 4:59:49 PM PDT by RCW2001
| The Associated Press
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| COLUMBUS, Ohio Oct. 14 — A state school board panel Monday recommended that Ohio science classes emphasize both evolution and the debate over its validity.
The committee left it up to individual school districts to decide whether to include in the debate the concept of "intelligent design," which holds that the universe is guided by a higher intelligence. The guidelines for the science curriculum simply put into writing what many school districts already do. The current guidelines do not even mention evolution. "What we're essentially saying here is evolution is a very strong theory, and students can learn from it by analyzing evidence as it is accumulated over time," said Tom McClain, a board member and co-chairman of the Ohio Board of Education's academic standards committee. Conservative groups, some of which had tried and failed to get biblical creation taught in the public schools, had argued that students should learn about intelligent design. But critics of intelligent design said it is creationism in disguise. On Monday, the committee unanimously forwarded a final draft without the concept in it to the full 19-member board. Board member Michael Cochran, who had pushed for intelligent design in the standards, said, "The amendment allows teachers and students in Ohio to understand that evolution really is a theory and that there are competing views and different interpretations. This allows them to be discussed." The Ohio school board will decide Tuesday whether to adopt the new standards or order that they be revised.
On the Net: Ohio Department of Education: http://www.ode.state.oh.us/ |
Well then what the heck does this mean?
Variability from the indirect and direct action of the conditions of life and from use and disuse: a Ratio of Increase so high as to lead to a Struggle for Life, and as a consequence to Natural Selection, entailing Divergence of Character and the Extinction of less-improved forms. Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows.
Despite the ingenuity of the neo-creos, the Not Darwinism part of their strategy is pretty clearly a failure. And they have another problem, which might be labeled Not intelligent design. If nature were fashioned by a hands-on Divine Artificer, it ought to exhibit a certain elegance and efficiency. Then what of all the imperfections we see in the biological world? Why are organisms burdened with maladaptive features like the webbed feet of the frigate bird, which does not need them for paddling? Why is our genome littered with nonfunctional junk DNA? Why have 99.99 percent of the species that have ever existed gone extinct -- including the poor dinosaurs, created only to be wiped out by an errant asteroid? As Gould remarks, "Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution -- paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a natural process, constrained by history, follows perforce."Source: Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics.
Another PatrickHenry choice expert!!
“FOR YEARS, I’VE BEEN pretty sure that I did not
murder my wife,” Simpson said today at a golf course in
Boca Raton, Fla., where he was taking a rare break from
searching for the real killers of his wife. “But if
Johnnie’s not 100 percent sure, I’m like, hey, maybe I
better take another look at this.”
Simpson added that it would be “crazy” not to be
swayed by Cochran’s new statements, which he
called “thought provoking.”
“Look, you’re talking about a guy, Johnnie Cochran,
who is a pretty smart guy,” Simpson said. “If he said maybe
I did it, then maybe I did it.”
Cochran’s doubts about Simpson’s innocence may help
resolve one lingering mystery for the former Heisman
Trophy winner:
why it has been so difficult for him to find his
wife’s real killers, whom he pledged to hunt down after
his acquittal in 1995.
The former NFL star said that, in light of the new
revelations, he may slow down his search, which he said has
occupied almost every waking moment of his life for the
past seven years.
“If it turns out that I’m actually the one who did
it, then looking for the real killers would be a big old
waste of time,” Simpson said.
Many posters, even many on this site, have vehmently expressed the view that Christianity held back the advancement of human progress,
The charge that Christianity has held back scientific progress is utterly ridiculous. Perhaps the best example of pagan materialistm is atomism. The fortuitous and mindless joining of atoms holds absolutely no prospects for scientific inquiry and neither does the fortuitous and mindless mutations held by present day materialists.
Only theories which deny mindlessness and propose order can be the source of scientific inquiry. It is this belief in order, in natural laws which as stated in our Declaration come from God that has proven to be the source of the scientific spirit and scientific progress in the Christian West.
12 posted on 9/15/02 6:07 AM Pacific by gore3000
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
That's really unfair. At least 30% of the mathematicians I know are straight. (Rimshot)
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