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Battle over evolution heating up
News 8 Austin ^
| 8/20/2003
| Antonio Castelan
Posted on 08/20/2003 6:24:57 PM PDT by new cruelty
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To: new cruelty
Socialism. Evolution. Global warming. And the list of liberal scams goes on and on and on as long as they are in a position to brainwash the naive via media and "education."
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posted on
08/20/2003 6:35:59 PM PDT
by
gg188
To: new cruelty
I'd contribute to stand up for science.
It amazes me that Conservatives are proud of the fact that a lot of them subscribe to such utterly inane beliefs as "creation science."
Next thing you know, we'll be pushing for alchemy to be taught along with real chemistry, because, damn it, that's what the medieval Europeans believed.
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posted on
08/20/2003 6:54:52 PM PDT
by
TheAngryClam
(TOM McCLINTOCK is my choice for governor. He should be yours too.)
To: gg188
"Textbooks should fix embarrassing factual errors and tell students about the scientific weakness of neo-Darwinism as well as its strengths," Discovery Institute officials stated in a faxed memo. If the media aren't allowed to spin this affair into a replay of "Inherit the Wind" where all the conclusions are neatly spelled out in advance of the facts, the textbook situation in this country might stand a chance of getting aired out. Textbook publishers have turned into little more than paper mills. Anything they can get Texas and California to buy will be snapped up by everybody else, no matter how chock-full of boneheaded mistakes, myths, and disproved "facts" they are.
Not that anybody reads them these days....
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posted on
08/20/2003 6:55:01 PM PDT
by
thulldud
(It's bad luck to be superstitious.)
To: VadeRetro; jennyp; Junior; longshadow; *crevo_list; RadioAstronomer; Scully; Piltdown_Woman; ...
PING. [This ping list is for the evolution side of evolution threads, and sometimes for other science topics. FReepmail me to be added or dropped.]
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posted on
08/20/2003 6:55:17 PM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.)
To: TheAngryClam
Be amazed then. Creationism has nothing to do with alchemy.
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posted on
08/20/2003 6:56:34 PM PDT
by
thulldud
(It's bad luck to be superstitious.)
To: PatrickHenry
Happy, he who was able to know the causes of things.
I loved that part of the Georgics. I liked De Rerum Natura even more.
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posted on
08/20/2003 6:57:52 PM PDT
by
TheAngryClam
(TOM McCLINTOCK is my choice for governor. He should be yours too.)
To: thulldud
They're exactly comparable: utterly fantastical and false belief systems, which have a large following built up around their false and/or unprovable premises.
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posted on
08/20/2003 6:58:40 PM PDT
by
TheAngryClam
(TOM McCLINTOCK is my choice for governor. He should be yours too.)
To: TheAngryClam
Ah, a classics scholar.
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posted on
08/20/2003 7:01:14 PM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.)
To: All
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posted on
08/20/2003 7:03:22 PM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.)
To: TheAngryClam
Well, I seem to remember when I was studying chemistry, that some attention to alchemy was not considered to be out of place. Alchemy morphed into chemistry when people started working from a proper foundation, seeking to understand what was going on instead of looking for some magic formula for "riches". You're certainly not against schools teaching THAT, I hope.
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posted on
08/20/2003 7:07:40 PM PDT
by
thulldud
(It's bad luck to be superstitious.)
To: new cruelty
To: Heartlander
Thanks for the links.
To: All
Threads like this one often become rather heated, therefore ...
For your information: many of the regulars on the science threads here on Free Republic have joined in the AGREEMENT OF THE WILLING to promote civil discourse and to avoid flame wars which lead to excessive use of the abuse button, transfer to the Smokey Backroom, and ultimately ... thread deletion. I respectfully ask that you read the linked agreement so that you will know what the willing parties expect of one another and their dealings with others.
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posted on
08/20/2003 7:12:37 PM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.)
To: PatrickHenry
Very much so.
Was pretty good at it too- several nice pieces of paper tell me so.
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posted on
08/20/2003 7:16:39 PM PDT
by
TheAngryClam
(TOM McCLINTOCK is my choice for governor. He should be yours too.)
To: All
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posted on
08/20/2003 7:17:22 PM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.)
To: thulldud
Somehow, I doubt that these people will be happy about teaching that creationism was a false premise that gave way to evolution.
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posted on
08/20/2003 7:17:48 PM PDT
by
TheAngryClam
(TOM McCLINTOCK is my choice for governor. He should be yours too.)
To: gg188
I agree with you on socialism and global warming.
But evolution. It's a fact, pal. Deal with it.
Bob
To: TheAngryClam
Was pretty good at it too- several nice pieces of paper tell me so. Then you're way ahead of me. All I had was 3 years of Latin in high school. It was sufficient to give me an absurdly fond impression of the classical period.
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posted on
08/20/2003 7:20:48 PM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.)
To: new cruelty
Why do humans spend time building things. If they would just wait, it would magically pop out of the Earth by the brillant mind that is evolution. According to many people, evolution is the most intelligent force in the universe. I wish someone would introduce me to Mr. or Mrs. Evolution. I want to meet this brillant builder of things. If it can build a complex human, imagine what kind of automobile or energy plant it build for us. I'm glad we have so many brillant teachers who understand the mind of Evolution, and are willing to share it with our kids, to bring them out of the darkness of religious stupidity.
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posted on
08/20/2003 7:21:44 PM PDT
by
Russell Scott
(The whole creation groans in pain waiting for the manifestation of Christ's Kingdom)
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