Posted on 02/27/2004 5:55:40 PM PST by Coleus
But "theory" doesn't mean the same thing to scientists as it does the general public; the general public believes the term "theory" means what a scientist would call a "hypothesis."
Eh, stupidity over the long term doesn't confer an evolutionary advantage, so I suspect you're wrong :-)
If you look at literature, art, music in the 20th century you will see what was, IMO, the result of atheistic evolution.......meaninglessness.
I also believe the problem of abortion is an inevitable result of the lack of value placed on life due to evolution. Destruction of the weak by the strong.
Oh give me a break,
1) In essence in evolution whoever has the most surviving offspring wins so Abortion is about as anti-evolution as you can get.
2) This whole idea they people who don't believe in your God are the reason for all societies moral ills is not backed up by the facts.
From 1991 to 2001, The Number of the nonreligious doubled in number while at the same time the number calling themselves Christians declined by 10%
yet the violent crime rate has declined through this period, as well as The pregnancy rate for unmarried women has continuously declined through the 1990s and the abortion rate dropped by about 25 percent for both married and unmarried women through the 1990s and The teen Pregnancy Rate Reached a Record Low.
If religion had anything to do with preventing the above, Why as the country becomes less religious the above is improving?
3) The current young generation Y is probably the most pro-life generation we've had in a long time and yet they are the least religious.
So religiousness and morality don't correlate. So even if Christianity was to fade away in the next 20 years it wouldn't have any effect on the overall morallity of the country.
I am neither ignorant, nor dishonest. The theory of evolution began as a way to explain life without God. What passes as science, in many cases, doesn't even make sense (e.g. that the Colorado River carved the Grand Canyon).
The theory of Intelligent Design (without being religion) states that the intricacy of life could not have begun without some form of Creator. You know, like a watch doesn't just 'happen' just because you give it enough time. It needs a designer.
It should be taught alongside evolution.
The problem continues to be that theory is taught as fact, and it's not........it's theory.
Errtalk about your self-contradictory two sentences :-)
So you're an actual Young-Earth Creationist, I'm guessing? Those are getting rare (fortunately.)
There is plenty of scientific evidence to refute the theories taught as fact, and plenty of scientific evidence to support Creation.
I believe in a young earth because I believe in the Scripture, and I know there are holes in the 'science' taught as fact, and I believe that the atheism in evolution has harmed our culture immeasurably, but that is, in the end, beside the point.
The point of this is that there are other theories as to the origin of the earth besides evolution, and they should be taught in schools.......as the theories that they all are.
Probably want to get sources other than the loon-jobs at the ICR, I suspect.
Despite you're whining about being insulted, to be a creationidiot you've either got to be ignorant or a liar, which isn't an insult, merely a statement of fact; most are simply ignorant of course, with a cabal at the top who out-and-out lie to fool the ignorant ("there are no transitional fossils" claptrap, etc.)
I was raised to believe in Creation, and then as a college student thought that theistic evolution was a probability, but the more I study Scripture, the more I come back to a 24 day of Creation (as the word means in Genesis.....day/night).
None of us knows for sure, obviously, and I'm smart enough to not waste my time trying to convince you.
In the end, the only thing that matters is if you believe in the Creator as Redeemer, and believe in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
We'll all find out some day who was right...........and I promise I won't make fun of YOU when we do. ;o)
Yes, its an interesting phenomenon I've noticed before; they're FAR more obsessed with Darwin than evolutionists are.
I attribute it to "projection"...projecting their own concepts and beliefs on to a subject and people who study the subject they frankly don't understand at all or bother to examine closely at all.
They imagine college course where everyone has a worn thumbed-through copy of the "Origin of Species" worshipping a statue of Darwin and people getting up and reading chapters of Darwin.
They can't conceive of evolution as a living, active science with people in the field digging up evidence, moving forward by publishing their own articles, etc. instead of a religion based on adherence to a single book.
Darwin is of course greatly respected by evolutionists, but really people don't spend much time studying the Origin of Species or Darwin in detail; evolution has moved on.
So far, so good. No specific content required. Afterall, science is always an ongoing search for better theory and scientists do continue to investigate and critically analyze aspects of evolutionary theory.
Students will be taught that theories are tentative explanations that are subject to modification as continued experimentation demands
This is true for all of science. If only evolutionary theory is singled out for this treatment, students are unduly confused.
...the differences between microevolution and macroevolution;
What differences there are don't have any bearing on what is taught at the elementary or secondary level. This is plainly a propaganda tool for the ID/creationists.
...and guided to examine the various lines of evidence for and against the theory of a common ancestry (macroevolution).
How did the IDers wedge this into the standards? Before bunching the Ohio educators into the completely wacko group I checked out the standards here. It provides some relief; it's not as bad as the creationists make it sound in the article above. But this constant wittling away at science by ignorant politicians is a terrible trend.
btw, you're not the first one to call one who trusts God, and his Word, ignorant. I'll leave you with a few words from Scripture.
Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know Him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.......I Corinthians: 1:20-21
God bless you, John, in your search for truth.
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