Scientists unite for science curriculum

Houston Chronicle ^ | Sept. 30, 2008 | KELLEY SHANNON

[daler]

Thank who?

[Rembrandt]

Huzzahs to you, metmom. Well stated! Only fools or tyrants try to pass off theories as facts. Some people are both.

[Old Landmarks]

The Free Republic hardcore evolutionists Love Big Government, top-down, centralized control by the far left who run the Big Government Public Schools.

Can you say Big Government Liberals posing as small government libertarians to give cover for their obvious liberalism on a conservative website?

[dr_lew]

All that because we prefer science taught in science class and religion taught in other venues?

This whole tack just doesn't appeal to me. Science depends on freedom of thought and discussion, and the idea of ruling out certain ideas categorically just runs against my grain.

I do appreciate that the creationist agenda is advanced not in the spirit of free inquiry, but what is to be done in this case?

The renaissance and enlightenment ideals of scientific practice were those of a fraternal elite who sought to attract men of ability by the power and appeal of their exciting and revolutionary ideas.

In this they were phenomenally successful, and we all know the story. Their ideals were established as conventional wisdom and made the foundation for our technological society. Yet, the establishment of far-reaching results such as Evolution and Cosmology as socially mandated doctrine rests uncomfortably on the foundational ideals of science.

I still maintain that the best way to teach Evolution would be to place a copy of Darwin's Origin of Species at the top of a greased pole wrapped in barbed wire, and forbid it's reading.

[Elsie]

It proves that all flesh IS the same flesh; Flesh of fish, flesh of fowl, flesh of beasts ... and flesh of men.

An ignorant sheephearder seems to have a differing opinion...

1 Cor. 15:39
All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.

[Elsie]

I do appreciate that the creationist agenda is advanced not in the spirit of free inquiry, but what is to be done in this case?

Oh??

2 Corinthians 3:17
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

[MrB]

“Preference” sounds so.... voluntary, doesn’t it?

Unlike reality where the curriculum is FORCED on the parents & children by lawsuit backed by the force of government guns.

The latter position has NO MORAL GROUNDING, and thus is arguing, morally and rhetorically, from an extreme point of weakness. In other words, when your position is forced on others, you have admitted that you have lost the moral side of the argument.

[metmom]

“Preference” sounds so.... voluntary, doesn’t it?

Yes, it does. So non-confrontational, so tolerant, .....

so fake.... in light of the facts

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

The dishonest Free Republic hardcore evolutionists are a pack of liars who claim to be for small government due to their uncompromising Libertarianism (a ruse to justify their liberal social and anti-Bible positions) while supporting, boot-licking and even worshipping the worst of all Big Government abusers, the Big Government Public School system run by the far left.

They are also in the habit of slandering social conservatives as "science-deniers", a typical far-left tactic.