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Republicans growing more skeptical about evolution (per Pew poll)
Washington Post ^ | December 30, 2013 at 11:32 am | Aaron Blake

Posted on 12/30/2013 10:37:59 AM PST by Olog-hai

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To: circlecity

Randomly change, delete, reorder or add a letter to this sentence and tell me that more information is available than before!


21 posted on 12/30/2013 11:34:13 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: JennysCool

Yale survey: Average tea partier has better science comprehension than general population

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3080735/posts


22 posted on 12/30/2013 11:42:26 AM PST by TurboZamboni ("PEACE ON EARTH TO MEN OF GOOD WILL".)
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To: Olog-hai

forget evolution — it just doesn’t matter one way or another.

It’s “anthropogenic global warming” that needs to be debunked for once and for all.


23 posted on 12/30/2013 11:54:29 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

If the AGW hoax is finally destroyed, then they still need the old Darwinistic one to fall back on.


24 posted on 12/30/2013 11:57:04 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Drew68

“And you can guarantee that next year every candidate with an (R) after their name will be asked to articulate their opinion on this issue.”

A simple answer for those, like myself, that are both religious and of scientific inclination, is “Yes, I do. Contrary to uneducated opinion, evolution does not explain the origins of life. It merely explains how life can adapt to a rather hostile conditions in the universe. It’s a rather brilliant mechanism, wouldn’t you say?”

A better answer for those that may not agree is “I’ve never studied such a broad topic myself. I leave speculation and research on those matters to trained scientists. My opinion, regardless of what you think it is, has no validity nor impact on our nation at large.”

For those goosestepping morons that promote teaching Evolution in public schools : “Talk to me once our schools produce students that excel in biology and genetics first. Then we can talk about teaching a unifying theory like evolution then. What you propose is akin to teaching a new student physics by way of the Theory of Relativity. There is nothing wise about that.”.

You’ll then see drool pour from the Presstitue’s mouth as they’re trained only to speak, react, and attack to an expected reply.

I cannot begin to tell you the number of idiot liberals I’ve run into think that the Theory of Evolution explains the origin of life itself ... as if it were some kind of concrete gospel as to how life originated, not how it has adapted over billions of years.

We’ve only begun to scratch the surface as to the scientific explanations of life. Your average programmed liberal tends to think of evolution, make that all of science in general, as a catch all to invalidate religion. That drives me batty as it cheapens the science ... much like what global warming has done to climatology.

/rant off


25 posted on 12/30/2013 12:05:26 PM PST by edh (I need a better tagline)
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To: Olog-hai

That’s as it should be. Evolution is a bunch of BS.


26 posted on 12/30/2013 12:08:08 PM PST by varmintman
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To: Olog-hai

This is the fault of our public schools and universities that have for years indoctrinated our children with the so called theory of evolution.

It is with this indoctrination, that our children, even those from conservative Christian homes have been brainwashed to turn their backs on the Truth of Creationism.

We must begin electing true conservative officials who will banish evolution from all of our schools and begin to teach the Truth.


27 posted on 12/30/2013 12:09:23 PM PST by Oliviaforever
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To: Olog-hai
The meaning of the evolution controversy is a matter that has origins in historical, cultural and political trends. Politically it is being used as an attack on historical and traditional beliefs. As such it is part of a broader attack on tradition in general and Western traditions more specifically. The goal is the destruction and then total domination of Western Man. His enslavement and seizure of his wealth is the final goal. The attack is working in a large part due to the rise of egalitarianism, moral relativism and hyper individualism among Western peoples. The rise of the aforementioned effectively destroys any possibility of the necessary collective action which is required to stop the ongoing conquest.
28 posted on 12/30/2013 12:21:45 PM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: Steely Tom

Continued attacks from the Leftist ivory tower on those who “cling to religion”.


29 posted on 12/30/2013 12:21:55 PM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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To: MrB

Nice strawman!!! Instead, generate a random string of text characters that is equal in length to the sentence you wrote. For each position in the random string, compare the character to the one in your sentence. If it matches, lock it in place, if not generate a new random character. Repeat for each position in the random string. Repeat this procedure multiple times. After a surprisingly low number of repetitions, you will “randomly” generate a meaningful sentence.

That’s the problem with most counter-evolution arguments. You focus on the random aspect, but forget about the non-random aspect of evolution. It’s not just throwing random bits of DNA around, you know. It also includes natural selection (which is non-random), which means that those combinations that produce biologically viable organisms tend to become increasingly common because those are the organisms that reproduce. The combinations that are less viable lead to organisms that fail to reproduce, so these combinations are weeded out.


30 posted on 12/30/2013 12:22:06 PM PST by stremba
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To: stremba
If it matches, lock it in place

Please cite the " lock it in place" analog...and no, natural selection does not "lock" the code. That's the problem, any reasonably aware individual knows the more complex, the easier it breaks.

31 posted on 12/30/2013 12:29:47 PM PST by papertyger ("refusing to draw an inescapable conclusion does not qualify as a 'difference of opinion.'")
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To: stremba

Ah, but the original sentence had meaning,
and any modification of it would REDUCE information,
most likely to the detriment of the sentence (organism).

The natural selection has to be based on “original” amounts of information
in competition with the “modified” information.

The “modification” has to increase information, and due to the rarity of a positive or even neutral mutation, there is not enough time, even with all the magic billions of years fairy dust, for enough positive modifications to produce a molecules to man series of events.


32 posted on 12/30/2013 12:34:09 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: stremba

BTW, you’re using a variation of Huxley’s monkeys in your example.

Of course that argument was definitively refuted because it didn’t accurately reflect real biological processes; namely, once the monkey’s finger comes off the key, the letter comes off the paper.

Huxley’s dodge was the he was describing a creation machine.


33 posted on 12/30/2013 12:41:32 PM PST by papertyger ("refusing to draw an inescapable conclusion does not qualify as a 'difference of opinion.'")
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To: Olog-hai

The fittest survive.
What is meant by the fittest?
Not the strongest; not the cleverest—
Weakness and stupidity everywhere survive.
There is no way of determining fitness except in that a thing does survive.
“Fitness,” then, is only another name for “survival.”
Darwinism:
That survivors survive.

- Charles Fort (Book of the Damned, pp. 23-24 - 1919)


34 posted on 12/30/2013 12:48:02 PM PST by februus
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To: Olog-hai

Well, we know that homosexuality leads to extinction.


35 posted on 12/30/2013 12:55:53 PM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: circlecity
All the useful genetic information which ever has or ever will exist has been there from the beginning.

There are sections of the human genome that are actually viral DNA from viruses that invaded human cells some time in the past.

36 posted on 12/30/2013 1:02:08 PM PST by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: Straight Vermonter
There are sections of the human genome that are actually viral DNA from viruses that invaded human cells some time in the past.

that has been verified, how?

37 posted on 12/30/2013 1:04:47 PM PST by papertyger ("refusing to draw an inescapable conclusion does not qualify as a 'difference of opinion.'")
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To: papertyger
Here you go: Human endogenous retroviruses in health and disease: a symbiotic perspective
38 posted on 12/30/2013 1:08:46 PM PST by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: Daveinyork
They devolved from normal human beings.

Or, they failed to evolve into normal human beings.
39 posted on 12/30/2013 1:11:17 PM PST by adorno (Y)
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To: JennysCool

Bingo. They are starting early for the 2016 election.


40 posted on 12/30/2013 1:11:56 PM PST by Organic Panic
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