Posted on 03/09/2006 6:55:14 PM PST by Greg o the Navy
AN EXAMINATIONS board is including references to “creationism” in a new GCSE science course for schools.
//negligent attitudes to the truth//
Where is there the truth?
Wolf
Just wait till you see how they behave on this thread.
From http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4793198.stm, a further quote from the OCR spokesman:
"Creationism and 'intelligent design' are not regarded by OCR as scientific theories. They are beliefs that do not lie within scientific understanding."
Your labelling of the article here is about 180 degrees out -- unless the 'good idea' that can't be kept down is neo-Darwinian ToE, as taught by the GCSE curriculum
It was actually 12%, see Post 135
ok, a vain question: is this simple illustration of specificity-out-of-randomness worthy of archive?
There are many people whom I don't agree with and yet respect.
That's a principle I applaud, but it's one in short supply with some chaps.
Isn't it interesting how fast they can come unglued, lol
It's hard to get over posts by people who say they find strength in their ignorance.
When you've been on these threads a while, it's hard to get over a mob of people who set out to have these threads removed from FR, and whose tactice were indistinguishable from the Yippies of the 1970s. Many of these people were banned, but I believe many of them are back under different names.
It's hard to get over people who post the same discredited stuff over and over, the same fabricated quotes over and over, the same BS equating evolution with immorality.
This is what we despise.
Isn't it interesting how fast they can come unglued, lol
What's even better is how they then say you are the
one coming unglued.:>)
Well it has been a bad few days for them. T-Rex soft tissue found, cold fusion at Purdue challenged, who knows what else. The only solace they get is feeling intellectually, and this is laughable, superior to the Fundy crowd. One of them has even admitted in the last few days to never even having read a biology book. It's hilarious, I tell you, hilarious.
The phenomenon is not unknown elsewhere, but if I may be permitted an observation, you appear to have an even worse dose of it in the US than we have here -- and I speak as a great admirer of the United States.
If some of your conservatives are like this, I don't want to know what your liberals are like!
the same BS equating evolution with immorality.
One thing I have got to do is stop posting
to the same person on 2 threads. No wonder
I have headache.
To be honest I know some "unchurched" people
who more moral than some Christians I know
Certainly my experience as well--it's a universal.
Not exactly. Science when correctly applied would probably not be able to confirm the higher power (unless obviously there was evidence), but it also would certainly not come up with any conclusions that conflicted with that hypothetical truth. Science is just a means for separating what we know from what we don't know. Thus when correctly applied it's never wrong, it's just sometimes incomplete.
This is the problem with the current ID movement. It's fine to believe a higher creator (and this doesn't conflict with the Theory of Evolution, regardless of what the ID propaganda crew tells you) but if your theology conflicts with actual certainties of science then there's something wrong.
Unfortunately it seems obvious that certain religious groups would rather simply spread misinformation to undermine science in the areas that conflict with it instead of adapting new knowledge into their theology.
The actual assumption is to avoid supernatural explanations along with the infinite number of other explanations that don't have any evidence for them, for the time up until some evidence is shown.
This is simple logic. This is the same reason when your newspaper is missing you don't assume that a ghost did it before you assume your neighbor stole it. If some sort of evidence emerged for the ghost, you'd be all over it (as would a scientist).
The paper man's first defense is the dog did it.
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