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.
Just "more than 200 evos?" Nothing else special about them? It must be depressing when spin is all you have left.
I weary of evolutionist platitudes. Your statement is plain and simply false. If it were true, the article that started this thread would not have been posted. As it is, evolutionists are intolerant of criticism directed toward them or their precious fairy story.
BTW, self-correcting implies error. If evo were truly self-correcting, it would adjust the theory rather than blackball the critic.
that's what peer review and the scientific method is predicated upon. mistakes are made over the millenia, then they are corrected with better science.
Another stale platitude. The peer review process is as clean and pure and the Justice Department's investigation of itself under Janet Reno. "Peer" has been restricted to those friendly to the evolutionist propaganda. That makes it just a bit too circular for it to be taken seriously. Any more lukewarm platitudes?
show me where religion does that, and i'll have my shoes for dessert.
I hope you aren't wearing your hip boots. I can't speak for religion but I can speak for Christianity. First you need to understand that the truth does not need to be corrected. Only falsehoods need to be corrected. Christianity, therefore, could not be self-correcting. It is noted that sometimes interpretations can be incorrect. Not only was the Reformation evidence of man's willingness to clean his own house but the Catholic counter-reformation also testifies to that fact.
You can eat one boot now and save the other for lunch tomorrow.
I don't know, but it certainly doesn't stop the anti-evolutionists -- I have yet to meet one who knew evolution even a tenth as well as he believed he did.
Evolution can never be science. Call it atheology, that's what it is.
You get a major mega dittos here. It is hard enough to teach Newtonian mechanics without telling the student the disclaimer that "all the physics we teach you is an approximation that ignores relativistic and quantum effects"
excuse me?
If you haven't got a clue, you are ignorant of the opposition's position.
I guess you don't know eiter then, or else surely you would have answered the question. Feel free to take a stab at it -- note that the word "science" is included in the question, so tailor your answer appropriately.
Subject-changing questions are a poor substitute for homework.
...so says the guy who repeatedly tried to derail an evolution thread by insisting that everyone answer his "why is there matter" tangent.
In this particular case, however, that question is hardly a change of subject, it's right on target. If creationists are going to whine about the alleged motives of people who don't think they deserve "equal time", they need to demonstrate that they have something worth being presented in science classes -- or else all their accusations about motives is just an attempt to distract attention from the *real* reason, which is that they've got nothing worth serious consideration.
Bumper-sticker slogan rebuttals. I can't say I find that terribly convincing.
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But it doesn't settle the issue of how he allegedly knows that God *did* say it. "This book says so" leaves a lot of unanswered questions in the chain of evidence.
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