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To: PatrickHenry
“I think having students hear criticisms of any theory is a great idea,”

I can hardly wait to hear all there alternatives to physics, astronomy, flight, gravity and all the other scientific theories out there. Airplanes fly because angels lift them? The sun does, in fact, revolve around the earth as related in Joshua? Items fall to the ground because the earth sucks? The possibilities are endless and should go a long way towards injecting a level of humor back into science classes.

4 posted on 11/08/2005 4:28:01 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur
You have GOT to be kidding.

Here's some science for you, friend. I happened to be listening to talk radio on the way to work yesterday. There was a molecular biologist talking about so-called 'random evolution,' with regard to a single-celled organism.

He said that the odds of that organism evolving randomly were calculated to be 10 to the fifty thousandth power, which is basically an unfathomable number, which validates what I suspected since the first time I heard it...Darwin was the first person to push junk science.

If you can argue that any other scientific theory is in dispute to that extent, other theories should be included. I thought that was the PURPOSE of science.

9 posted on 11/08/2005 4:46:08 AM PST by ModernDayCato
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To: Non-Sequitur

One of the common underlying themes of the founders was that truth will prevail in the end.

I wouldn't fear freedom not even in the classroom.


19 posted on 11/08/2005 5:02:34 AM PST by festus (The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
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To: Non-Sequitur

Let's see; flight, gravity, physics. Come on down to the nearest grain elevator and bring your hang glider. When you step off the top edge to prove the theory of gravity and flight you'd better be strapped in because without it physics will come to an abrupt halt in your case.


23 posted on 11/08/2005 6:09:54 AM PST by Dust in the Wind (I've got peace like a river. . .)
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To: Non-Sequitur
The sun does, in fact, revolve around the earth as related in Joshua?

Go read Joshua. It DOES NOT SAY THAT THE SUN REVOLVES AROUND THE EARTH! Joshua says that: So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, till the nation avenged itself on its enemies, as it is written in the Book of Jashar. The sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day. Joshua 10:13. It merely describes how it looks to an observer (and if you try to tell me that you have never said "the sun set"...).

24 posted on 11/08/2005 6:12:23 AM PST by SeƱor Zorro ("The ability to speak does not make you intelligent"--Qui-Gon Jinn)
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To: Non-Sequitur

you won't get those alternatives in physics, astronomy, flight, gravity, and all the other scientific theories out there because these are based in science not religion, unlike the religion of evolution which is much more faith based than intelligent design. like most religions of the world other than Christianity, any ideas which question it must not be made available in the marketplace or, even better, make them illegal by perverting the establishment clause of the first amendment.


46 posted on 11/08/2005 6:55:38 AM PST by Snowbelt Man (ideas have consequences)
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