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To: VadeRetro; Junior; longshadow; RadioAstronomer; Doctor Stochastic; js1138; Shryke; RightWhale; ...
Evolution Ping

The List-O-Links
A conservative, pro-evolution science list, now with over 320 names.
See the list's explanation, then FReepmail to be added or dropped.
To assist beginners: But it's "just a theory", Evo-Troll's Toolkit,
and How to argue against a scientific theory.

12 posted on 11/27/2005 4:44:38 AM PST by PatrickHenry (Expect no response if you're a troll, lunatic, dotard, or incurable ignoramus.)
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To: PatrickHenry

"The lawsuit argues it is unfair these courses were nixed while others titled "Western Civilization: The Jewish Experience," and "Intro to Buddhism," were approved. "

That's what the case turns on; and as stated above it depends on where the courses are placed. I went to a Bible college for 3 years and then transferred to Chapman College in Orange, California, a private university (now they call it Chapman University). All my courses in Old and New Testament, Major and Minor Prophets, etc. were transferrable. I had to take a bunch of 'requirements' in the final semester of my senior year, including Government which was taught by a Chinese man with an accent so thick that it was nearly impossible to understand him. We also had to take "Transformational Grammar" which I forgot the minute I got out of the class) which was a Chomsky invention I think. The geology class I took on board a cruise ship also counted. And neither of my schools required any math to graduate, which was a good thing because I'm dyslexic and could not get past the third grade in math until they invented calculators because it's arithmetic I couldn't do, not math.

All you have to do is pick the right school.


13 posted on 11/27/2005 4:54:43 AM PST by KateatRFM
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To: PatrickHenry
Glenn Branch, deputy director of the National Center for Science Education, which fights attempts to teach intelligent design and creationism as science in public schools, called the biology texts used by the school "unabashedly creationist" books that explain evolution in a confusing manner.

This does not shock. Creationists only know strawman parodies of evolution. Time and again I'm left asking, "If you don't know what evolution even is, how do you know it's wrong?" There is no way these particular course credits should pass for real biology anywhere.

16 posted on 11/27/2005 5:24:22 AM PST by VadeRetro (Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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To: PatrickHenry

The blurb mentions "other courses" were also rejected. Anybody know what they are?


17 posted on 11/27/2005 7:05:18 AM PST by furball4paws (One of the last Evil Geniuses, or the first of their return.)
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To: PatrickHenry

Thanks for the ping!


21 posted on 11/27/2005 7:26:36 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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