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In Turkey, fertile ground for creationism
The Washington Post ^
| Sunday, November 8, 2009
| Marc Kaufman, Washington Post Staff Writer
Posted on 11/08/2009 5:47:34 PM PST by Gondring
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To: grey_whiskers
You mean like trolling FR with atheist talking points, while ignoring literal theocracies run by Muslims over there? Huh? I'm the one who posted this disturbing article, where theocracy threatens science.
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11/09/2009 9:45:02 AM PST
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Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
To: count-your-change
Actually, it has had something to do with some of those. Very quietly, scientists are using the findings of evolutionary research to create self-improving mathematical models. A sprinkle of randomness (you know, that thing mocked by hardcore creationists) as multiple models are run, and a culling of the less successful for the next generation...and an self-perpetuated evolution of models occurs.
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11/09/2009 11:10:54 AM PST
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Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
To: Gondring
Self improving mathematical models? That should convince the Turks of the value of evolutionary theory in their lives.
In fact, had Charles Darwin devoted his life to his pigeons and not promulgated his theories, would any Turk be worse off, be lacking in anything they have now? Would I? In a word......no.
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11/09/2009 12:07:05 PM PST
by
count-your-change
(You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: count-your-change
Only if believe that knowledge has no meaning.
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11/09/2009 1:23:06 PM PST
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Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
To: Gondring
Huh? I'm the one who posted this disturbing article, where theocracy threatens science. Exactly! Why aren't you over there DOING something about it: I suspect that the proportion of Turkish creationists among the denizens of FR is something less than a plurality.
But the creationism alone isn't worrisome to me: what worries me is whether Turkey is sliding from a more-or-less secular state to an explicitly Mohommadean one -- given that we have nukes stored at Incirlik.
Cheers!
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11/09/2009 3:15:43 PM PST
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grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: Gondring
You will find few IQs over 80 on this forum anymore.
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11/10/2009 11:05:19 AM PST
by
a_Turk
(Temperance, Fortitude, Prudence, Justice)
To: Gondring
The founder of the parastate of Turkey Kemal Mustafa was a proponent of the final solution—the butchery of 4 million Christians betweem 1915 and 1923.
Turks are what they are: cold blooded amoral murderers. As such what they do or do not teach makes no difference in the grand scheme of the Lord.
Pity them.
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11/18/2009 7:48:18 PM PST
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eleni121
(For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline)
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