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Old 03-13-2013, 06:41 AM
 
Location: Londonderry, NH
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The problem with your suggestion is we do know how the world works and how species differentiate and change into new species over time in response to changing environmental conditions. Not teaching this just leaves the children ignorant and subject to mythical religious nonsense.

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Old 03-13-2013, 06:41 AM
 
Location: Fort Worth Texas
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Science is based on the observable.

Evidence of evolution can be observed.

...Creationism is a hypothesis.
Yes eveolution can be observed


South Park-Evolution - YouTube
 
Old 03-13-2013, 06:46 AM
 
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The problem with your suggestion is we do know how the world works and how species differentiate and change into new species over tome in response to changing environmental conditions. Not teaching this just leaves the children ignorant and subject to mythical religious nonsense.
...And as a result of this differentiation, the species, while similar enough to produce offspring, do not produce viable offspring.

This can be seen in agriculture cultivars.
 
Old 03-13-2013, 06:49 AM
 
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Not teaching this just leaves the children ignorant and subject to mythical religious nonsense.
If they are taught evolution as "fact" then they will be truly ignorant.
 
Old 03-13-2013, 06:52 AM
 
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If they are taught evolution as "fact" then they will be truly ignorant.
Do you believe that all species existing today existed in the past?
 
Old 03-13-2013, 06:57 AM
 
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"Evolution" is unproven and therefore it remains a theory, and a ridiculous one at that! It shouldn't be taught as fact. It should have scant mention, and should be presented only as a theory.

It has become a tool of the left which is used to ridicule and discredit Christianity and Judaism for the single purpose of promoting atheism.


KANSAS CITY, KS—As the debate over the teaching of evolution in public schools continues, a new controversy over the science curriculum arose Monday in this embattled Midwestern state. Scientists from the Evangelical Center For Faith-Based Reasoning are now asserting that the long-held "theory of gravity" is flawed, and they have responded to it with a new theory of Intelligent Falling.





Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New 'Intelligent Falling' Theory | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

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Old 03-13-2013, 07:03 AM
 
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Why is this "higher power" considered higher?


Since we can send out Rockets to the moon and mars, we are apparently higher than this power.
 
Old 03-13-2013, 07:11 AM
 
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This question has been decided and the issue put to rest. Evolution is a fact. Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection has been established by proof based upon empirical evidence and verified by genetic experimentation on plants and animals, and overwhelmingly accepted by the scientific community. Contrast to this are the claims of "Creationists" paraded as science under the rubric of "Intelligent Design" that is based on the assumption that life was created, which, of necessity, assumes the existence of a "Creator." Such argument is mere speculation and inconsistent with scientific method, for it is nothing more than a presumption that is not evidence, much less proof. The same arguments and challenges to evolution advanced by the proponents of "Intelligent Design" were proved to have no support in the scientific community and ruled to be religious doctrine and not science. SeeTammy Kitzmiller, et al. v. Dover Area School District, et al., 400 F.Supp.2d 707 (M.D. Pa. 2005). To posit creationism as a theological explanation is one thing; but to posture it as science is unsupportable if not outright dishonest, and only reflects discredit upon religious belief.
 
Old 03-13-2013, 07:44 AM
 
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Default WP - well said

I think all the Creationists walk upright because their heads are full of helium and resist god's push down by Intelligent Gravity. They are held upright by God's afinity to empty thought.
 
Old 03-13-2013, 07:45 AM
 
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Evolution is biological history, mutation, and statistics.
I went to private Catholic school and we learned it there in science class.

Religion and Science were kept separate and coexisted quite well in schools.
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