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Subject:	Re: Support for Creationism (was Re: Macro-Evolution - "Impossible!")
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Thu, 25 Jan 2001 21:41:32 GMT
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Guy Albertelli wrote: > Schoolbooks due suffer from a variety of errors. This however is not > because Darwinian Evolution is wrong, but rather because the people writing > the books are more interested in selling them then getting their facts > right. So how can one say that issuing a misleading textbook without pointing out the BLATANT errors isn't misleading the student? > > Exactly. So why is it that the Evolutionary theory is so widely > > accepted and taught in our public schools with no mention of its > > *possible* downfalls? > > For the same reason the the theory of gravity is, and the standard model > is, and the wave/particle duality is, etc. There are a heck of a lot less evidences to discredit the above theories compared to Evolution. (here's 20 to start with: http://www.creationscience.com/quest.shtml) > Kids are generally not good scientists, and can only see things in black > and white. So we give the best start we can along the best guess we have by > presenting it as the TRUTH, and hope that they will also devlop some > critical thinking skills along the way so can accept new good data, reject > bad data, and be able to create new hypotheses, and test them on their own. So then you wouldn't have a problem if I were teaching your child to issue a Bible to each student in my class and teach them about Creation from the Genesis record? I'll give them the best start I can along with the best guess I have by presenting it as the TRUTH, and hope that they will also develop some critical thinking skills along the way so they can accept new good data, reject bad data, and be able to create new hypotheses, and test them on their own. -- -TiM NB, CA http://echofx.itgo.com t_c_c@yahoo.com 3ch0fx

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		Its Own Worst Enemy (was Re: Support for Creationism )
(...) snipped from (URL) Questions for Evolutionists for the purposes of review and discussion. No challenge to the copyright status of this work is implied or should be inferred. (...) It does not evolve into a butterfly; the organism has the same (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: Support for Creationism (was Re: Macro-Evolution - "Impossible!")
(...) Sounds like the Bible to me. Pot - kettle - black. (...) In the US? Damned straight I would - Separation of Church and State, remember? Now, if it were a PRIVATE school, more power to you. But if a public school that gets MY tax money, that (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: Support for Creationism (was Re: Macro-Evolution - "Impossible!")
(...) Schoolbooks due suffer from a variety of errors. This however is not because Darwinian Evolution is wrong, but rather because the people writing the books are more interested in selling them then getting their facts right. (...) For the same (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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