Posted on 01/07/2009 6:00:18 PM PST by Inappropriate Laughter
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Those who accept evolution are not necessarily atheists.
If they are, Pope Benedict is an atheist.
Very true, the words “separation of church and state” are not found in our constitution. And is it not ironic that the church is found in nearly every signer of the constitution. Almost every signer was a church member, and was a founder of the American Bible Society.
Dr. Benjamin Rush (1745-1813) was one of the yougest signers of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. He held the first chemistry professorship in America. He published the first Americian chemistry textbook. He was apponinted by President John Adams as the Treasurer of the United States mint in 1797, which he held until 1813.
Dr. Rush wrote, “I believe no man was ever instructed in the truths of the Bible without having been made wiser or better by the early operations upon his mind.”
He also wrote “Why the Bible should be taught in our public schools.” And he also warned what the results would be if we neglected to teach the Holy Scriptures. He stated, “The sciences have been compared to a circle, of which religion composes a part. To understand any one of them perfectly, it is necessary to have some knowledge of them aa. Bacon, Boyle, and Newton included the Scriptures in the inquiries to which their universal geniuses disposed them, and their philosophy was aided by their knowledge in them.
My summation: “I believe the truth, both of science and the Bible are not in conflict, but in harmony. Truth science will never dimenish our faith, but will confirm it.”
“our schools, all founded by godly ministers”
That might be true of a few colleges but the public school system was started by secular humanists like John Dewey.
They always bring up what is not there!!
What another man believes is between him and God. Has the Pope renounced a literal reading of Genesis?
I can’t help but to reflect back...what little I have been quoted in the press has been woefully inaccurate.
As I understand it, John Dewey was only appointed to head up and change our puclic education, and he was responible for most of our problems today!
I know in most states the first schools were founded by ministers, as in Tennessee, it was founded by a Presbyterian Minister.
Most Universities and colleges are only copies and imitations on those originally founded.
The founders of Harvard believed that: “All knowledge without Christ was vain.”
The word Veritus, still on the college seal (of Harvard)
means divine truth. The motto of Harvard was offically: “For Christ and the Church.”
And, you should see Yale, and Princeton (the founders would be tarred and feathered if they were on campus today).
i figure that big bang is what happened when God clapped his hands and those seven days well lets just figure since God is eternal his measurement of one day is probably a bit different than ours. besides whoever wrote Genesis may not have be particularly good at math, y’never know.
In my profession, my biology class spent about 20 minutes on macro-evolution in my undergrad course. ZERO time in graduate school.
My husband had NO amount of time on macro-evolution as an undergrad, and NO amount of time on it in the graduate level.
Macro evolution is of importance to only **one** group of people: Scientist studying Macro evolution. The rest of the scientific world never has any reason to apply it to their work, and pays little attention to it.
So???.....There is only one reason to have sooooo much emphasis on macro-evolution in the government schools: To cause the students to doubt their faith and their parents. It also steals precious time away from learning the biology facts and techniques that they **do** need to succeed in life and in college later.
Moses penned Genesis on instructions from God.
And, yes, the Earth was created long before the events written of in Genesis as it and other parts (OT and NT) of His word would attest.
Young Earthers are good, but misguided, folks.
As for my “evolution” beliefs...I have no problem with the “dingo to dachshund” scenario. Atoms to Adam? I'll cough twice and pass.
As already pointed out, the separation of Church and State nonsense is today made out, mostly by libs, to be something completely different than what old Tom Jefferson meant when he made the famous “wall” comment in a letter to the Danbury Baptist Association.
I don’t believe in teaching religious doctrines in science class either. But evolution is a hoax, not science.
LOL. I think that's getting to the point of it.
Why do you feel that evolution is a hoax?
Exactly.
The loudest of the Free Republic hardcore evolutionists worship the Big Government Public Schools so much, because of that very issue, they love Big Centralized Government School indoctrination.
The entire focus of their life is to use Big Government School as a tool to destroy the morality and Christian faith of other people's children. The macro-evolution scam is one of their most sacred tools.
I have yet to see a scientists support “Big Government Public Schools”. Can you provide provide links to those posts so I can educate myself?
Pope Benedict believes in evolution? How can that be?
Sorry, but I come down on the side of the parents. This is grotesque. No matter how much of a “champion of christianity” this Mr Freshwater is, he needs to pull in his claws.
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