Posted on 01/16/2013 4:41:13 PM PST by EveningStar
For Zack Kopplin, it all started back in 2008 with the passing of the Louisiana Science Education Act. The bill made it considerably easier for teachers to introduce creationist textbooks into the classroom. Outraged, he wrote a research paper about it for a high school English class. Nearly five years later, the 19-year-old Kopplin has become one of the fiercest — and most feared — advocates for education reform in Louisiana. We recently spoke to him to learn more about how he's making a difference.
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Science is of use in explaining and predicting the natural world. Creationism is useless.
It just goes to show that one person CAN make a difference!
I am here to say I have nothing to say.
But I will watch with... interest.
I am sort of interested in suggestions on how to dispose of the billions of artifacts in geology and other Earth Sciences that point to only one possible theory.
And those who think a Scientific Theory is a Guess all growed up (AGW is NOT a Scientific Theory by any proper application btw).
Other than that, I got nuthin’
Thanks in advance for the fun.
/watch mode
And when science can’t explain something, you can just make up something that sounds sorta right and claim it is science.
much of what is taught in science class these days, is not science
Exactly........the ‘facts’ and ‘truth’ of the humanist religion of evolutionism, is whtever they NEED it to be
“Science is of use in explaining and predicting the natural world. Creationism is useless.”
While it has its uses, science has played a huge role in the demise of “Western civilization” over the last 100 years. Now the science geeks, espousing much of what Nazism brought to the fore, can stand back and watch as the Earth is inherited by Creationists...
Scientists can never explain the origin of the universe, and the Big Bang is absurd per their own arguments; if matter is finite, the Tooth Fairy (can’t say “God”) triggered the creation of all matter...from an “explosion”...
Hitler believed in fixed kinds and that Germans were created in the highest image of God. Creationism is only a prominent belief in America among the less educated and in Muslim nations.
Of course its useless to you...you see it as an enemy to your religion of science when they go together just fine. I don’t require you to believe neither should you do the same to others. The provable aspects of science are not in conflict with Christian faith but you demand that we say they are with statements like this one. The theoretical aspects yet unproven dont worry me nor should they worry you. The dismissal of the possibilities creationist’s bring to the table show the closed minds that exists.
Have you ever noticed how people on the right who feel strongly about an issue are called “extremists”, while those on the left are called “activists?”
Hitler believed in fixed kinds and that Germans were created in the highest image of God. Creationism is only a prominent belief in America among the less educated and in Muslim nations.
The fossil record doesn't support half the nonsense evolutionists come up with, no one has ever proven a Big Bang, and I don't see any dogs with gills, or talking fish - their fossils seem to have disappeared too.
And strangely enough animals seem to decide to wallow over to one area and die in large groups so their fossils can be found together. Fossilized trees have been found that extend through multiple layers of sediment - you know that stuff that take millions of years to deposit, because trees can grow with fossilized roots, because they evolved that way.
And clams at one time had legs, but evolution said they didn't need them which is why seashells are found near the top of Mt. Everest - definitely a more plausible story than a catastrophic event such as a flood of Noah's Ark proportions.
Cannot a competing "theory" held by a considerable number of Americans also be taught as well?
LOL, I just read that postmodernism reality is only in your mind and the physical world does not exist. Gotta love scientists and philosophers. Your computer only exists in the reality of your mind. No wonder kids are losing theirs.
Science is not at all in conflict with my Christian faith, neither does it conflict with the faith of most Christians who have no use for creationism.
I do find it amusing how most are unable to make an argument for creationism without an ignorant assumption that anyone arguing against is an atheist.
Science is not at all in conflict with my Christian faith, neither does it conflict with the faith of most Christians who have no use for creationism.
I do find it amusing how most are unable to make an argument for creationism without an ignorant assumption that anyone arguing against is an atheist.
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