Faith and science: UAB professor's book helps teachers present evolution without offense

The Birmingham News ^ | 11/28/09 | Bob Sims

[Just mythoughts]

That is only because no level of evidence will satisfy those whose minds are already made up. You would demand thousands of intermediate generations to form a chain of evidence to prove anagenetic speciation (the gradual changes cumulativly significant enough over time that it is reasonable to conclude that the changed form was so different that it would not have been able to reproduce with the original ancestral form). Alternately, major successful mutational changes via polyploidy are denied as not related. There are a numerous of examples of transitional species if one only cares to look for them. To expect that scientists produce an example of a cow giving birth to a live whale as the only acceptable example is an exercise in self deception.

The ONLY thing the so called evidence demonstrates is commonality of substances used to 'form'/'create' life. There is NOT one shred of evidence of human flesh beings creeping, crawling, swinging or hanging from one species to another. IT is a fantasy modeled much like the modelers of global warming have created.

[boycott]

The scientific method is the only model that produces reliable results.

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In 1861 the French Academy of Science published a list of some 51 so-called scientific facts which apparently disproved the Bible. Today, there is not one reputable scientist that would stand behind any one of these so-called facts.

The library of the Louvre has 3.5 miles of shelving containing obsolete science books.

400 years ago, a leading scientist numbered the stars at 1056. People then assumed the Bible was wrong when it compared the number of stars in heaven to the number of grains of sand of our seas.
Jeremiah 33:22 says, “The host of the stars of heaven cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea be measured.
I Corinthians 15:41 says stars differ in beauty and brilliance.

This was writen thousands of years before the telescope. The Bible was correct. The scientists were wrong. No error in The Bible. In fact, scientists proved the Bible correct.

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We should not only consider scientific methods but also history. I don’t believe you could find many reputable historians that would deny that Jesus walked this earth. He has also had more impact on this planet than anyone.

Science has, in fact, strengthened my faith.

[Soothesayer9]

Heard a good analogy the other day..namely that evolution bringing “all this” about by chance is akin to a crane in a junkyard picking up random parts here and there and forming a fully built *working* PC.

[Soothesayer9]

“So you no long believe in physics, astronomy, biology, geology, chemistry...?”

- And how many of the above who have Ph.Ds actually buy into the scam that is global warming?

[Natural Law]

" There is NOT one shred of evidence of human flesh beings creeping, crawling, swinging or hanging from one species to another.

Step back from the bong. There is not one shred in anything I have posted to suggest that human flesh being anything other than human flesh. I have not addressed the creation of life either. I have only addressed the emergence of variety.

[Androcles]

Hmmm...I think you meant to reply to the poster I replied to, not me. We’re on the same side on this one.

[EmilyGeiger]

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[EmilyGeiger]

Alot of studies in science came from the bible, some found in the book of Job. I don’t think you can have the science without the faith...

[EmilyGeiger]

I love Blount co. We lived in St.Clair, another nice area of Al. Now we are in Madison.... I would love to go back to St. Clair.

[Just mythoughts]

Step back from the bong. There is not one shred in anything I have posted to suggest that human flesh being anything other than human flesh. I have not addressed the creation of life either. I have only addressed the emergence of variety.

You are sounding like BJClinton on the matter of what the meaning of the word is, is. Variety of what?

[colorado tanker]

Thanks for the ping. It's refreshing to see a teacher of evolution who doesn't treat it as a proof of atheism, a la Dawkins.

[colorado tanker]

Not sure why Colorado would get a "B" for teaching evolution. Could be because many of the public school districts have adopted an awful math/science curriculum based on "inquiry" and "concepts."

True story. I was helping my daughter with homework calculating the area of geometric objects. I wanted to refresh my own recollection and so looked at her textbook. The standard formulas weren't there. I went to a homework help website and gave them to her. Unbelieving it could be that easy, she confronted her "teacher" who sheepishly admitted I was right. Apparently, in an "inquiry" curriculum the students are to figure it all out on their own, as if Sir Issac never lived.

[Bodleian_Girl]

I moved from Pinson to Blount County about 3 years ago so my boys could grow up in the country. Small world, eh?

Yes, what a small world!

I was asking about Turkey Creek because I picked up a book in a used book bookstore for a dollar, a memoir of sorts, about a family who had a summer home at Turkey Creek.

They called their area of Turkey Creek "Bull Frog Bend." I knew it better as "The Blue Hole."

For years I wondered about the house on the hill across from the big rock at the blue hole.

Now I know. :-)