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10-07-2013, 09:27 PM
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Time out. Let's re-read the title of the thread. Teaching Creation is NOT the same as teaching YEC Creationism or the Discovery Institutes surrogate Intelligent Design. Those are clearly fraudulent attempts to inject religion into science curricula. They have been exposed . . . making them convenient targets for those here who want easy targets. The original OP title at least used the term Creation . . . and that is a very different question entirely. It is NOT incompatible with evolution in any way. It answers a question science cannot currently answer . . . so there can be no conflict with science.
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10-07-2013, 09:45 PM
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Location: South Africa
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Originally Posted by MysticPhD
Time out. Let's re-read the title of the thread. Teaching Creation is NOT the same as teaching YEC Creationism or the Discovery Institutes surrogate Intelligent Design. Those are clearly fraudulent attempts to inject religion into science curricula. They have been exposed . . . making them convenient targets for those here who want easy targets. The original OP title at least used the term Creation . . . and that is a very different question entirely. It is NOT incompatible with evolution in any way. It answers a question science cannot currently answer . . . so there can be no conflict with science.
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So do enlighten us as to what "creationism" teaches that science cannot? |
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10-07-2013, 09:55 PM
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So do enlighten us as to what "creationism" teaches that science cannot?
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Creation, Seeker . . . NOT creationism. Science can teach many of the How's about the function of our reality . . . but it cannot teach What our reality IS and Why it is; What life IS and Why it is; What consciousness IS and Why it is; and What intelligence IS and Why it is. |
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10-07-2013, 10:02 PM
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Location: South Africa
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Originally Posted by MysticPhD
Creation, Seeker . . . NOT creationism. Science can teach many of the How's about the function of our reality . . . but it cannot teach What our reality IS and Why it is; What life IS and Why it is; What consciousness IS and Why it is; and What intelligence IS and Why it is.
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OK, stop with the semantics and enlighten us. |
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10-07-2013, 10:36 PM
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Location: The backwoods of Pennsylvania ... unfortunately.
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Number two, you open up the doors for Christians to be forced fed other beliefs.
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LOL! There was some high school somewhere in the southern United States that fought tooth and nail to allow religious literature (i.e. pamphlets and Chic crap) to be distributed on school property during school hours. It even went to the local courts where a judge finally ruled that students handing out religious literature to other students was not in violation of the Constitution (students are not government employees, after all).
The Christians thought this was a great victory for their efforts of increasing the level of religious fascism in the United States.
But wait ... what's going on over there?!
Oh no, there's a group of pagans over there handing out their literature and pamphlets!! How dare they do such a thing! The ruling was supposed to allow only Christian literature to be handed out, not pagans or any other religion.
Wow, did that little stunt about handing out religious literature completely backfire on the Christians. I couldn't stop laughing when I heard about it. |
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10-07-2013, 10:39 PM
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Location: The backwoods of Pennsylvania ... unfortunately.
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I should make a slight correction, Atheism and Modern Christianity are tied for the world's most intolerant religion and never tolerate me expressing my thoughts.
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I would still like to hear about how atheism is tied with "modern Christianity" for the most intolerant "religion" in the world. I would so enjoy hearing all about what you can't do because of atheism.
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10-07-2013, 11:41 PM
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Location: Victoria, BC.
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Originally Posted by MysticPhD
Time out. Let's re-read the title of the thread. Teaching Creation is NOT the same as teaching YEC Creationism or the Discovery Institutes surrogate Intelligent Design. Those are clearly fraudulent attempts to inject religion into science curricula. They have been exposed . . . making them convenient targets for those here who want easy targets. The original OP title at least used the term Creation . . . and that is a very different question entirely. It is NOT incompatible with evolution in any way. It answers a question science cannot currently answer . . . so there can be no conflict with science.
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Never the less, creation is NOT science and should not be taught as such. There are many many questions science cannot answer yet, and it is ridiculous to plug god into those unanswered questions. |
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10-08-2013, 12:56 AM
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Uhhhhh, yea. That's literally how stupid the argument against creation is.
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Maybe the arguments YOU have constructed against it. However they seem to be misrepresentations of the ACTUAL argument I have seen throughout the thread.
Creationism is not about what was created. It is a claim about WHO did that creating. It is the claim that the creation was done by an intellgient, willful, thinking, conscious agent.
And to date, especially by the posters on THIS thread, that is an entirely unsubstantiated proposition. |
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10-08-2013, 12:58 AM
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I should make a slight correction, Atheism and Modern Christianity are tied for the world's most intolerant religion and never tolerate me expressing my thoughts.
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Still just making things up I see after all these pages?
Tell me exactly what in the sentence "There is no reason to think that the universe was created by a willful, conscious, intelligent agent" stops you from "expressing your thoughts".
No one is stopping you expressing your thoughts. You just have a persecution complex. What we are doing is DISAGREEING with your thoughts. If you want to misconstrue the latter as the former in order to make it look like you are being persecuted and held down then so be it. But no one is falling for this except possibly you yourself. |
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10-08-2013, 05:00 AM
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Originally Posted by MysticPhD
Creation, Seeker . . . NOT creationism. Science can teach many of the How's about the function of our reality . . . but it cannot teach What our reality IS and Why it is; What life IS and Why it is; What consciousness IS and Why it is; and What intelligence IS and Why it is.
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And those questions are best explored in philosophy and religion classes, which of course is where they already are taught. Trying to determine the philosphpical basis of reality is, as you say, not part of science and should not be taught as such. In this I don't think we disagree at all.
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