Posted on 11/14/2013 9:57:54 AM PST by onedoug
;-)
Wait a minute. Hasn't the theory of evolution been "grasped to the bosoms of world-wide leftists who see it as their next great train-ticket to world political domination" via driving God out of the classroom and out of intelligent minds?
The Western World is predicated on Christianity and the liberty we so embrace and love today, the same liberty we enjoy in posting here, a function of it and its understanding of God as creator?
I don't see what evolution-theory has to do with "driving God out of the classrooms".
If I remember from 1963, what was her name... Madalyn Murray? ...in that Supreme Court ruling against Bible readings in class, evolution-theory was never mentioned.
Instead, the reason was the alleged constitutional requirement for "separation of church and state".
The key point to remember here is that Darwin's basic evolution-theory, in and of itself, is a very simple idea: speciation from descent with modifications and natural selection.
That's all there is to it.
But the theory is confirmed by literal mountains of evidence from virtually every other branch of science.
That's why, in order to deny evolution, you must also deny all of natural-science, and such denials are simply unwarranted by any physical evidence.
Nor has anybody suggested that natural-sciences should not be taught in public schools, and why would they?
So the real problem here is not the teaching of natural-science, but rather the absence of so many children learning, shall we call it, super-natural science.
The Supreme Court effectively ruled such teaching must happen in churches, not public schools.
For whatever my opinion might be worth, I'd say such rules today are enforced too strictly, and should be relaxed at least to the point where students who wish to find guidance in schools can know where to look.
I guess the scientists just MISSed this the first time they looked at these rocks.
There was a find of fossil versions of blue-green algae dating from about 100 million years after the Earth formed, suggesting it cooled down much faster and had water much earlier than had previously been guessed.
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