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Teaching Darwin
Weekly Standars ^ | March 21, 2005 | Paul McHugh

Posted on 03/22/2005 6:56:35 AM PST by metacognative

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Let's choose sides: whose with the NEA, the ACLU, the liberal media and left-wing academia?
1 posted on 03/22/2005 6:56:35 AM PST by metacognative
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To: metacognative

I thought the government "we the people" were not suppose to fund religion in public places.


2 posted on 03/22/2005 6:58:11 AM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: Just mythoughts

Which religion? The Magical Alchemy of Mindless Evolution?


3 posted on 03/22/2005 7:02:56 AM PST by metacognative (eschew obfuscation)
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To: metacognative

Evolution is a religion, that very old religion called "we are gods", it requires faith to be believed.


4 posted on 03/22/2005 7:06:17 AM PST by Just mythoughts
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To: PatrickHenry
Paul McHugh is a university distinguished service professor of psychiatry and behavioral science at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and former psychiatrist in chief of the Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Why is it that psychiatrists are nuts?

5 posted on 03/22/2005 7:15:25 AM PST by balrog666 (A myth by any other name is still inane.)
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To: balrog666
I usually don't ping the list for creationist threads that have no science content, but this is from the Weekly Standard, so it's part of the overall problem of linking creationism to conservatism, which I see as a large issue in future elections. For that reason -- political importance -- I'm going to ping the evolution list. Thanks for the ping.
6 posted on 03/22/2005 7:27:03 AM PST by PatrickHenry (<-- Click on my name. The List-O-Links for evolution threads is at my freeper homepage.)
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To: VadeRetro; Junior; longshadow; RadioAstronomer; Doctor Stochastic; js1138; Shryke; RightWhale; ...
EvolutionPing
A pro-evolution science list with over 250 names. See list's description at my homepage. FReepmail to be added/dropped.

7 posted on 03/22/2005 7:28:34 AM PST by PatrickHenry (<-- Click on my name. The List-O-Links for evolution threads is at my freeper homepage.)
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To: PatrickHenry

My oh my. The Luddites are already out in full force on this one.


8 posted on 03/22/2005 7:38:03 AM PST by Junior (FABRICATI DIEM, PVNC)
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To: balrog666

...typical ad hominem from the nonsensical non-science darwinite


9 posted on 03/22/2005 7:42:25 AM PST by metacognative (eschew obfuscation)
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To: Junior
Here's some info on the article's author: Paul McHugh.
10 posted on 03/22/2005 7:44:29 AM PST by PatrickHenry (<-- Click on my name. The List-O-Links for evolution threads is at my freeper homepage.)
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To: PatrickHenry; balrog666

It's even worse than you think. I googled the guy. He's on the president's council on bioethics. The left is going to have a field day with this.


11 posted on 03/22/2005 7:46:14 AM PST by curiosity
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To: curiosity
I googled the guy.

So did I. I can't find a solid connection to the Discovery Institute.

12 posted on 03/22/2005 7:47:52 AM PST by PatrickHenry (<-- Click on my name. The List-O-Links for evolution threads is at my freeper homepage.)
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To: Junior
Well, someone has to deal with the content of the article. He says this:
Everyone agrees that the Scopes trial (viciously caricatured in the play and movie Inherit the Wind) was a setback for the teaching of scientific reasoning. But the same is true of the Georgia ruling, Darwinism being quite obviously a biological theory and open to dispute. To claim otherwise is to be woefully misinformed.
And this guy gets published in the Weekley Standard. What can you do but roll your eyes.
13 posted on 03/22/2005 7:52:50 AM PST by PatrickHenry (<-- Click on my name. The List-O-Links for evolution threads is at my freeper homepage.)
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To: PatrickHenry

A desperate search for conspiracies. You guys are absurd.
At least quit calling people names if they retain an open mind.


14 posted on 03/22/2005 7:54:37 AM PST by metacognative (eschew obfuscation)
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To: PatrickHenry

I'll tell ya, I'm a liberal and if not for the fact that I'm on this ping list, I'd be thinking right now that Creationism was a plank in the conservative platform.

So you've kept at least one person from generalizing Creationism/ID to all conservatives, if nothing else. :)


15 posted on 03/22/2005 7:55:55 AM PST by munchtipq
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To: PatrickHenry
I re-read his artcile. It's not as nutty as the stuff that comes out of the Discovery Institute, but it's still embarrassing.

I've noticed that the neo-cons tend to oppose evolution. William Kristol has expressed his opposition numerous times, so it's not suprising that his rag should print such a piece. Neocons are not religious, so I wonder what their motivations are. Any thoughts?

16 posted on 03/22/2005 7:56:34 AM PST by curiosity
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To: PatrickHenry

You argue very weekley


17 posted on 03/22/2005 7:56:38 AM PST by metacognative (eschew obfuscation)
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To: metacognative
Which religion? The Magical Alchemy of Mindless Evolution?

Ask him if he believes in the Science of Global Warming. I just had fun heckling a Nature special the other night. They kept saying stuff in direct contradiction to the evolutionary theory in their proofs of evolution.

e.g. Evolution never throws out a good thing once it's developed. So we're supposed to believe us losing our 'fur coats' is a good thing? Our ability to move swiftly with the agility of an animal? How come there are SO many animals that have these 'good handy developments' that they lost? If you say "they lost it because they developed something better" then how come WE lost all those good things just because we developed intelligence? Surely a fur covering and agility/precociousness doesn't interfere with that?

In addition they used the 'fetal development' stuff that has been disproved as a hoax as evidence. They're STILL using that idea!

If evolution is true, then by the same standards, so is global warming, and we'd better see these conservative evolutionists capitulating to those who would have us forfeit our freedom in order to save the environment.

18 posted on 03/22/2005 7:58:54 AM PST by Terriergal (What is the meaning of life?? Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him for ever.)
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To: PatrickHenry
Thanks for the ping:

Everyone agrees that the Scopes trial (viciously caricatured in the play and movie Inherit the Wind) was a setback for the teaching of scientific reasoning. But the same is true of the Georgia ruling, Darwinism being quite obviously a biological theory and open to dispute. To claim otherwise is to be woefully misinformed All biological theories are open to dispute!!! I really don't get the whole "Evolution is just a theory" arguement- so is most of our basic scientific knowledge! A fact is confined to exact temporal and spatial scales. You don't need a sticker in a text book to explain the process of science- any self-respecting professor will do so. Heck I do and I don't have all that much self-respect.

19 posted on 03/22/2005 7:59:23 AM PST by GreenFreeper
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To: Junior
The Luddites are already out in full force on this one.

Careful. You evos redefined flaming to include this.

20 posted on 03/22/2005 8:00:23 AM PST by Terriergal (What is the meaning of life?? Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him for ever.)
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