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Re: Evolution... it never ends
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Fri, 20 Aug 2004 20:00:28 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur wrote:

   Forgive me if I’m wrong, but is the point of Creation (and religion) not that it needs no “SCIENTIFIC model”? It is a simple solution to a complex question: “What am I ?”.

Of course, which is why such “solutions” have no place being taught in a public science classrooms. They belong in church instead. Keep in mind this is pretty much an issue being driven by Creationists - not all religious people in general. They are trying to gain scientific legitimacy for something that currently has none and this is the battle that is being waged in state school boards all over the US. And believe it or not, in some cases the Creationists are actually winning...

See for instance: http://ecology.cwru.edu/ohioscience/boe-contacts.asp

Amazing. And this country at the same time mocks middle eastern educational systems for churning out too many fundamentalists and not enough skilled doctors, engineers, or scientists....

Spencer



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(...) Forgive me if I'm wrong, but is the point of Creation (and religion) not that it needs no "SCIENTIFIC model"? It is a simple solution to a complex question: “What am I ?”. (...) My body hair, nipples, appendix and coccyx all appear to have no (...) (20 years ago, 20-Aug-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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