Posted on 02/24/2003 1:25:18 PM PST by Remedy
More than 200 evolutionists have issued a statement aimed at discrediting advocates of intelligent design and belittling school board resolutions that question the validity of Darwinism.
The National Center for Science Education has issued a statement that backs evolution instruction in public schools and pokes fun at those who favor teaching the controversy surrounding Darwinian evolution. According to the statement, "it is scientifically inappropriate and pedagogically irresponsible" for creation science to be introduced into public school science textbooks. [See Earlier Article]
Forrest Turpen, executive director of Christian Educators Association International, says it is obvious the evolution-only advocates feel their ideology and livelihood are being threatened.
"There is a tremendous grouping of individuals whose life and whose thought patterns are based on only an evolutionary point of view," Turpen says, "so to allow criticism of that would be to criticize who they are and what they're about. That's one of the issues."
Turpen says the evolution-only advocates also feel their base of financial rewards is being threatened.
"There's a financial issue here, too," he says. "When you have that kind of an establishment based on those kinds of thought patterns, to show that there may be some scientific evidence -- and there is -- that would refute that, undermines their ability to control the science education and the financial end of it."
Turpen says although evolutionists claim they support a diversity of viewpoints in the classroom, they are quick to stifle any criticism of Darwinism. In Ohio recently, the State Board of Education voted to allow criticism of Darwinism in its tenth-grade science classes.
It is an argument in semantics to be sure, but at the same time science cannot "prove" evolution anymore than it can "prove" any aspect of science.
37 posted on 02/24/2003 5:18 PM EST by whattajoke
You just put both feet firmly in your mouth.
With An Apology to Arius: When and How Should We Deal with Heresies and Heretics?
As far as I know, just evolution.
My college science classes required an evolutionary viewpoint to attain a passing grade, period. You couldn't introduce other faith-based view points, based on science, if they differed from Darwinist dogma. You couldn't ask a question that pre-supposed a Creationist world view.
No Creationist wants to eliminate free and open discourse. No Creationist wants to prevent introduction of Scientific evidence on the origins of the Universe and man, even if they disagree with the theories offered with that evidence. We'd just like to have the same "1st Ammendment" rights that the rest of the Scientific world has. However, Darwinists can't tolerate dissent, because much of their "science" rests upon a foundation of half-truths, misinterpretations, and lies.
Yawn. Luddites have been predicting the imminent demise of evolution for 150 years now. "Yup, it'll happen Real Soon Now", they keep assuring us.
Montessori science // insanity --- evolution!
Brainwashing (( Truth // conservatism )) --- Indoctrinating (( liberalism // lies )) !!
"Fraud --- corruption" !
Science is the study of how things work when there is no supernatural action.
Inteligent design might even be correct, but it can never be science. Call it theology, that's what it is.
So9
Berkhof speaks for many Christian theologians when he argues that evolution and theism are not compatible:[121]
This [theistic evolution] has often been called derisively a ‘stop-gap’ theory. It is really a child of embarrassment, which calls God in at periodic intervals to help nature over the chasms that yawn at her feet. It is neither the Biblical doctrine of creation, nor a consistent theory of evolution, for evolution is defined as ‘a series of gradual progressive changes effected by means of resident forces’ (Le Conte). In fact, theistic evolution is a contradiction in terms. It is just as destructive of faith in the Biblical doctrine of creation as naturalistic evolution is; and by calling in the creative activity of God time and again it also nullifies the evolutionary hypothesis.[122]
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