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To: tacticalogic

If you’ve suddenly had a pang of conscience about goal posts, this from the master goal post mover...then let’s go all out and be accurate in our premise in the first place shall we?

The issue isn’t evolution as much as it is evolution taught as fact, exclusionary of any and all dissent...in short the theory vs. the godless cult.

So the true issue is let’s measure when the NEA hijacked education including science, that point where God was stomped out of the equation...where creationism/ID was banned and evolution taught as fact not theory and work from there...

and no I’m not going to show you the dozens of times again...because you’re obviously not in this for what you’re pretending to be in it for...with all your dishonest misrepresentations, irrelevant strawman questions and half-wit projections;

besides, if you didn’t see it the first several hundred times, youre not going to see it this time.


114 posted on 08/05/2009 9:42:14 PM PDT by tpanther (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for g!ood men to do nothing---Edmund Burke)
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To: tpanther

“evolution taught as fact not theory and work from there...”

Repeating the same fallacy over, and over again is not going to make it true.

Or as you so aptly put it “I’m not going to show you the dozens of times again......with all your dishonest misrepresentations, irrelevant strawman questions and half-wit projections;”

Is Evolution only a theory?

Creationists argue that evolution is “only a theory and cannot be proven.”

As used in science, a theory is an explanation or model based on observation, experimentation, and reasoning, especially one that has been tested and confirmed as a general principle helping to explain and predict natural phenomena.

Any scientific theory must be based on a careful and rational examination of the facts. A clear distinction needs to be made between facts (things which can be observed and/or measured) and theories (explanations which correlate and interpret the facts.

A fact is something that is supported by unmistakable evidence. For example, the Grand Canyon cuts through layers of different kinds of rock, such as the Coconino sandstone, Hermit shale, and Redwall limestone. These rock layers often contain fossils that are found only in certain layers. Those are the facts.

It is a fact is that fossil skulls have been found that are intermediate in appearance between humans and modern apes. It is a fact that fossils have been found that are clearly intermediate in appearance between dinosaurs and birds.
Facts may be interpreted in different ways by different individuals, but that doesn’t change the facts themselves.
Theories may be good, bad, or indifferent. They may be well established by the factual evidence, or they may lack credibility. Before a theory is given any credence in the scientific community, it must be subjected to “peer review.” This means that the proposed theory must be published in a legitimate scientific journal in order to provide the opportunity for other scientists to evaluate the relevant factual information and publish their conclusions.

Creationists refuse to subject their “theories” to peer reviews, because they know they don’t fit the facts. The creationist mindset is distorted by the concept of “good science” (creationism) vs. bad science” (anything not in agreement with creationism). Creation “scientists” are biblical fundamentalists who can not accept anything contrary to their sectarian religious beliefs.

http://www.fsteiger.com/theory.html

It might prove helpful to understand the basics of the Scientific Method before you try to present an argument against it. This is stuff that was covered in 5th grade science class; do you recall the Science Fair?


125 posted on 08/05/2009 10:10:29 PM PDT by Ira_Louvin (Go tell them people lost in sin, They need not fear the works of men.)
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To: tpanther
So the true issue is let’s measure when the NEA hijacked education including science, that point where God was stomped out of the equation...where creationism/ID was banned and evolution taught as fact not theory and work from there...

When exactly was it that evolution ceased to be a theory?

139 posted on 08/06/2009 3:18:26 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: tpanther
God was stomped out of the equation

I don't know why evolutionists keep pretending to disagree with you, when in fact "the Grand Old Man" of evolution, Ernst Mayr says:

"Darwin more than anyone else was responsible for the acceptance of a secular explanation of the world"
It's worth reading all of Mayr's article.
222 posted on 08/06/2009 7:34:58 PM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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