And confuse young impressionable minds with myths and fairy tales that have nothing to do with what life is really about. Sad.
Tennessee's Creationism Bill: Why Are We Still Fighting Over Evolution?
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And confuse young impressionable minds with myths and fairy tales that have nothing to do with what life is really about. Sad.
PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
are you going to pretend you'd have any better luck proving that humans and date palms have a common ancestor?.....don't teach my kids that bullshit....
It's not bullshit and can be demonstrated and even measured. You couldn't demonstrate one iota of truth in your faith based bullshit if you had eternity to do it. Why? Because it's fucking bullshit!!! That's why!!!!!! Luck? That's a christian thing, correct? Idiot.
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I love how the religious far right(not all the right) argue against evolution on small gaps or on the "Nothing this complicated..." theory. There answering theory is something like "Because it is" and they have no problems at all with that.
the scientific method is still foreign to them
The subject of science is anathema to them. I guess it gives them a headache.
PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
measured?.....how far is it between a human and a date palm?....
PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
and I find it amusing that you refuse to believe your proposition is nothing more than a competing faith choice......
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PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
that's because the "method" you propose is to use it like a pole vaulter's pole....leaping over reality without ever touching the surface of it......
Ever hear of the fossil record?
Show me the scientific method behind the conclusion that creationism offers...
PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
i haven't argued it's based on a scientific method....I have argued it's a faith choice......I believe your position is as well....convince me it's based on a scientific method instead.....
PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
most certainly.....the problem is the imaginary links you create between the record....
It is because many look at it as one theory versus another theory....or one religion (science) versus another religion. This "battle" will wage on for a few more years.
There are huge gaps in the fossil record, but that doesn't make it flawed. Evolution is virtually everywhere in the fossil record.
how many is many?
and the battle is science VS myth and religion and always has been - this is one reason that 'cult' leaders and 'prophets' hate education
science and be demonstrated and faith cannot...sigh
oh well
I would estimate around 80% or so.
I think I stated that pretty much in my post above, though I did call science a religion, which is the way several folks look at it. "Hate education" is not a very valid descriptor though, IMO. While many religious folks will point out sin (according to their book) and encourage people to eschew it, the vast majority do not "hate." Again, my opinion.
You are correct that science can be demonstrated .... building theories based on observance due to research....but at some point speculation does come into play. Then the researcher has to do more research in order to back up that speculation. The scientific model is great for developing speculation on how life began, how old the earth is, what went with the dinosaurs, man's effect on global warming, etc. But a great many things folks are expected to accept...on...on...on faith. Faith in the accuracy of a particular man's research....and his conclusions based on such. Also faith that no "supreme being" ever had a hand in all that has occurred.
I have had these discussions on this board before and am on record as saying that I don't want creationism taught to my kid in the classroom. I will/do teach him what I perceive to be truth at home. I just post this to show that I can see why the "debate" continues year after year. Be patient, in a few years there will be no such debate....at least in this country.
religion creates a false comfort zone for weak minds. Everything will be OK, you'll go to a better place, New Orleans was destroyed because of the black people and the fags, etc. Science proves all that false and it scares the hell out of the religious nuts. Others just passively allow this crap to be said and taught without thinking too much about it. That's what happened to me. I was raised and remained a christian until I thought about it. Critical thinking, anathema to christians, changes things.