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1 posted on 12/11/2002 6:28:09 AM PST by A2J
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Oller said the state should force publishers to offer alternatives, correct mistakes in textbooks and fill in gaps in science teachings. "We are talking about major falsehoods that should be addressed," he said.

Just simple full-disclosure common sense, nothing more.

1,017 posted on 12/24/2002 7:11:03 AM PST by Phaedrus
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It is amazing to think that despite the superfluity of evidence some deny a Creator God.


"Hubble's Smash Hits."



Living unborn baby at 18-weeks (Photo by Lennart Nilsson, Life magazine, April 30, 1965).
1,104 posted on 12/27/2002 1:07:02 PM PST by k2blader
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Wake up and smell the coffee...evolution is around you everyday and you don't need numskulls to tell you any different...
1,209 posted on 12/28/2002 2:56:52 PM PST by Cactus
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"I don't believe I evolved from some primate," said Jim Stafford, a board member from Monroe. Stafford said evolution should be offered as a theory, not fact.

That is the funniest thing I've heard in a while!

OTOH, with a brain like that maybe his mother wasn't human after all!

1,399 posted on 12/30/2002 12:24:38 AM PST by higgmeister
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Evolution by natural causes: Not proven (and cannot be) but widely assumed to be true based on available evidence.

Creation by divine design: Not proven (and cannot be) but also widely assumed to be true based on available evidence.

Which of these has been given unquestioned reign in the classroom for the past century in the United States? Which covers itself in legalisms preventing the slightest reference to the other? Which has adherents that squeak and squeal like pigs when the suggestion is made – even if only in a small textbook disclaimer - that other explanantions for the existence of the universe may be true?

The arrogance of so forcefully positing unproven matters while discounting other possibilities with equal force is unbecoming of educational pursuits. One would think evolution could produce more and more brilliant thinking over time. Alas, however, evolutionists are seen to bend over backwards in eliminating certain possibilities thus giving ample demonstration of devolution with respect to the sciences. Ancillary retro shift resulting from ingnorance held with the tenacity of a rabid pit bull.

1,478 posted on 12/30/2002 11:35:06 AM PST by Fester Chugabrew
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"Backers say the addition would be inserted in the front of biology textbooks used by students in grades 9-12, possibly next fall"

Why 9-12, why not from the first grade on?

Just like the theory of the big bang. Scientists state that the universe began (they avoid the term created) with a big bang with all the energy needed to form the universe.
Question, where did all the energy needed come from in the first place?
Scientists tell us that energy can’t be created nor destroyed, nor can we create something from nothing.

I have a theory about the origins of universe’s but, it still doesn’t explain where the original energy came from in the first place. It has to be God.

1,656 posted on 12/31/2002 8:11:37 AM PST by Mikey
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Concerning intelligent design:

Watched a documentary last year...the info not really breaking news..but considering the crowd it came by....yes!
Top shelf researchers....not Christians.
The program explored their collective knowledge about DNA and cell activation.
first..they discovered and shared the reality..that our DNA should have degraded via its exposure to a multitude of factors..such as the varied radiations that bombard this planet.
Its not the DNA as a whole that breaksdown..but the components within the DNA structure that mutate from radiations.
they discovered a unit..which transits the DNA like a monorail train...correcting the DNA's imperfection...it does this like a computer program.....re-writting out faulty code.
so a self correcting mechanism exists..so perfect...the science community can only stare at it wonder...like a child.
next linkage is in the "Firing order" of our DNA...the on ..off activity between cells...in the development stage in the womb.
sequential...and perfect.
like a computer software program.
yes..there are mutations...but only due to externals..some carried via gene..or by input from radiations to chemical.
it seems that Chimpanze's are wired to speak..have the same make-up as us to speak..except the "Programming" forbids it...it never happens..because the Chimp's encoded DNA never sends the commands.
turns out..this 'Software programming' is being discovered in many species of life...the reason things stay as they are..is the programming.
here..the science community marvels..and comments..it looks like intelligent design..and they are not afraid to say so.
*** The ancient Kabbalistic view of the Hebrews is one of intelligent design....the model is..we are given all to look into..but we only grasp understanding in stages..as we are in effect..."Enlightened to do so"...
we are being permitted to look into these wonders...it could be viewed..that we are granted so..and have developed to a degree to be trusted with it.
Outside of intelligent design...then we as humans are in a race...a race to not be expunged from the history record.
just a few years ago...21 fragments from Shoemaker Levy 9 spiraled in on gravametrics and wolloped Jupiter.
had a few of them spiraled in on the earth..we would not be having this conversation.
life forms on this world have been terminated in the past..due to external realities.
unless we can go off world and survive out there..we might just go bye bye as a life form.
maybe the program is rocketing about the universe in these comets...and takes when the environment sustains the DNA locked within.
this too could be faulty thinking....as nothing new has really appeared record wise out of the blue in a long series of time here.
human consciuosness is another debate.....might be the hardest debate of all..as no one has really gone to the other side..and returned with proof of anything.

all our hopes and dreams are burried in faith....we conclude we exist..and matter..somehow..all of this going on around us.

....is for our benefit.

1,841 posted on 12/31/2002 7:32:56 PM PST by Light Speed
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"High school biology textbooks would include a disclaimer that evolution is only a theory under a change approved Tuesday by a committee of the state's top school board."

These people NEVER stop. But whjat do you expect from a state that elected Huey Long? I guess Arkansas will soon follow.

2,255 posted on 01/02/2003 12:54:50 PM PST by ZULU
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It's no use trying to explain anything or have them explain anything of their beliefs to creationists. All they know how to do is disregard the questions we put to them and then go on their tirade of stupid remarks like apes and monkeys.
2,832 posted on 01/04/2003 6:43:45 PM PST by webber
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3,081 posted on 01/05/2003 7:03:45 PM PST by snowstorm12
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High school biology textbooks would include a disclaimer that evolution is only a theory

It has only been a theory. According to the scientific method, a hypothesis only becomes a theory after considerable investigation. On the other hand, "creationism" is ONLY a hypothesis.

6,653 posted on 02/23/2003 4:45:07 PM PST by cinFLA
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