Posted on 05/03/2006 8:23:06 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
"If you haven't read the entire article yet, check out the sections titled:
The "teach the controversy" hoax.
The "just a theory" hoax.
The "fair and balanced" hoax.
The "persecuted scientist against the establishment" hoax."
All 4 appear on these threads just about every day. Sometimes in the same post. It's an uphill battle, that's for sure.
And sometimes you get Mamma Mia who got that way by partaking of too much pasta.
Yes, but it's good to see them correctly labeled as hoaxes.
Defending? Why the call to battle? What is really "under assault"? Why the fear over children hearing all theories? (Because now and probably forevermore, the origin of life as we know it is all theory)
When (at least since the Enlightenment) has religion seriously threatened or impeded science? In fact, it has provided a great impetus to the urgency of scientific exploration. Believers seek scientific explanations to affirm...disbelievers seek science to disavow the Believers.
So disbelievers, without religion, think of how much interest and funding would dry up..... so many skeptics lost to the fervor of proving what no body knows or can prove via science either way.
Besides, another thing history has shown is that...denying access to all theories (even at penalty of death such as faced by Galileo)) ...has not quashed human curiousity, skepticism, doubt, fear, wonder, and the search and the ultimate individual decision by every seeker as to what he believes.
The FSM will never let you die of anorexia unless you turn away from Him.
We are talking about the FSM, right?
I am curious exactly why THIS is happening. It seems outside of the ID realm, does it not? Now... I can speculate but I am curious what others think. Are the politicians we appointed trying to slowly tear down science?
You mean, like fighting back?
LOL!
My favorite part of these threads are the pictures of dinosaurs and men living together, i.e. Jesus riding a brontosaurus. But hey, my needs are simple.
Of course not!
Well, if it contradicts fundamentalist beliefs, maybe science should be more careful.
In other words:
Geology: All those rocks and old layers. Gone!
Paleontology: All those fossils. Gone!
Biology: The worst of them all. Gone!
Archaeology: Can't find evidence of the global flood. Gone!
Sedimentology: Same. Gone!
Cosmology: That Big Bang stuff. Gone!
Nuclear physics: Supporting radiometric dating. Gone!
Etc.
Etc.
...
[Paging Nehemiah Scudder. Pick up the white courtesy telephone please.]
Politically purging references to the Big Bang would be directed at scienctific revisionism of evidence for the purpose of discrediting Creationism (which depends on a moment of everything coming into existence)...not the other way around, as you suggest. Perhaps the political appointees who redline the term "Big Bang" do not want "science" to seem to be supporting or insensitive or exclusionary toward Buddhism et al.
Now THAT's "pure" science at work in the best interest of our education system. Right?
Do you say such ignorant things on other threads? Civil War threads? Tech threads? DUmmie FUnnies?
This article and the posting thereof says nothing of PH (or anyone else's) relationship (or lack thereof) with God, Jesus or anyone else.
Do you think God has handed you the ability to peer into souls? To divine relationships with Him? The height of your presumptuous arrogance is amazing.
I will pray for your soul today. I suggest you do the same.
Darwinism is a simple shift in emphasis from studying the things of the universe to studying the processes of the universe. That there are processes is obvious.
'Nuff said, really
Because historically people like ID'ers have a tendency to burn, torch and completely attempt to erase from history anything that goes against their beliefs. We don't want history to repeat itself.
They're switching to political mode, issuing tips for how to combat people who don't buy Darwinism. They're launching into campaign mode. Waging a PR war. Cranking up the propaganda.
Oooh that IS a funny statement coming from someone who has been attempting to push religious beliefs into public schools using politica means... isn't that what you and your kind at the Discovery Institute have been doing for years?
All those things that you really don't expect cold, hard, objective science to be doing. Fascinating
That too is a funny statement, because I would not expect "warm, fuzzy, God fearing folks" to be attempting to silence the search for truth.
You propaganda is oooooh so believable...
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