Posted on 08/11/2006 11:54:04 AM PDT by presidio9
Where do genus and species come in? What else but common ancestor? Relation is the core of evolution. What else is there to classify by? Weight? Good for salad?
It's not a matter of what you or I think they are its a matter of whether we take the scientific road, and allow all evidence to presented both favorable and unfavorable and a reason minded student to make a conclusion, or if we take the faith road of there being an inquision any time disent is raised.
Ah, the acolytes of Darwin make their obligatory appearance.
Nothing more needs to be said.
The kind of information mongering that Coulter addresses like the superficial stuff one gets from "Scientific American." This is all the average biologist knows about the subject, or certainly the average high school biology teacher or the average physician/nurse. Like "Sportin Life" in" Porgy and Bess." she is saying that 'taine necessarily so." where most people in the life sciences claim necessity simply because it is in their textbooks.
Oh sorry, I misread it, your last sentence to me was misleading. My apoligies.
Genus and species are part of the taxonomic classification system, by which living things are classified. Evolution is a theory that relates elements of that system and seeks to explain their similarities and differences; your mistaking the forest for the trees.
What a crock. Conservative Christians desire a rigorous examination of genetics and other biological disciplines. It is not us, but evolutionists, who are running away from objective science by stacking one untenable hypothesis upon another!
Teach the students the FACTS of genetics, and then let them draw their own logical conclusions about whether such marvelous complexity organized itself.
But my biggest problem (among many) with evolution is not scientific. It has to do with my faith. I believe humans are different from animals because we have souls. But what was the dividing line between ape and human? If we evolved from apes, at what point did we get our souls? Did God one day decide that every ape that had a certain mutation would get a soul, but the other apes were just out of luck because they weren't "human" enough? What was the genetic mutation that suddenly made apes human enough to warrant souls?
I hope I'm making myself clear enough on this issue, since stuff like this tends to get muddled when you try to explain it in writing, but if anyone who believes both in God and in evolution has a reasonable resonse to this, I'd love to hear it.
Evolution is the basis of the taxonomic system. There is no other basis.
Oh, and let me also say that I believe in natural selection on a micro-evolutionary scale, but not a macro-evolutionary scale.
I don't doubt it. Surveys for the past several decades have consistently found huge percentages of American adults who don't know who the current President is (VP stats are even more alarming), can't find the continental US on a globe, and at the height of the Cold War, didn't know that the Soviet Union and China were Communist countries. However, this article seems to jump to the conclusion that people who answer "No" to the question "Do all plants and animals have DNA?" are somehow being influenced by a belief in Biblical creationism and imagine that humans are special in this respect. More likely, they simply have no idea what "DNA" is, but have vaguely absorbed references to DNA testing in crime cases, but have never heard of DNA in any other context (after all, many of our most clueless citizens live in crime-infested cities, where many of their friends and relatives -- and themselves -- have had occasion to have DNA samples tested by police, and many are also regular watchers of TV crime shows). You'd probably get about the same percent of "No" answers to the question "Do all plants and animals have fingerprints?", for the same reason, and in that case the same simple reasoning process would have resulted in the correct answer.
What would you call the farce that was the Scopes trial? What about Dover?
Its a fact that there IS an inquisition.
As for Nobel prizes, most are awarded for political accomplishments of the left.
I realize that after the fact, his last sentence was rather confusing.
Evolution is not a classification system. I'm starting to see why some of you folks can buy flimsy ideas like evolution.
darn, why are we such a third world country? oh wait, we're the only superpower?? But this article suggests
Oh thats right, this is nothing more than a bash America article.
That Americans don't know that all plants and animals have DNA is a bigger concern, >>>
Doesnt concern me one bit, after all we all arent going to be going into biology as a living..besides I would assume that most people believe that animals have DNA but not plants which is perfectly reasonable response from people who havent had a biology class or a class in years.
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