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Re: Support for Creationism (was Re: Macro-Evolution - "Impossible!")
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Thu, 25 Jan 2001 23:43:54 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Jennifer Clark writes:
Jon Kozan wrote:

Are the facts and conclusions credible?

The only thing that is credible, other than perhaps my conclusion that you • have
got to be winding me up about all this, is that "Dr Dino" has been kissing the
blarney stone in a big way. For example, on the "win a great deal of cash"
section, he says:

"Evolution is presented in our public school textbooks as a process that:

                    1. Brought time, space, and matter into existence from
nothing. "

This is not the case. The theory most generally taught for this at school • level is the Big Bang theory, which has nothing to do with Darwin's theory of
evolution.

In your experience, perhaps, but then we're all limited by our own personal
experiences.  Evolution and the theory of origins, and the Big Bang are all
inexorably intertwined. You can certianly deny that, but they are cause and
effect for each other.  Separating them out in a school-kids mind is nigh
impossible.  Do your kids prove otherwise?

-Jon



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  Re: Support for Creationism (was Re: Macro-Evolution - "Impossible!")
 
(...) Well, I don't have kids of a relevant age, but I can certainly state definitively that they were clearly seperate and not intertwined when I learned about them in school - In fact, when I took that kind of stuff, the Big Bang Theory was only (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: Support for Creationism (was Re: Macro-Evolution - "Impossible!")
 
(...) This is not so. As pointed out in a very recent post, any cause and effect (and there may be none, some, or a lot) is unidirectional. Perhaps some explanation? First of all, let's get the temporal sequence correct, where "->" means "happened (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Support for Creationism (was Re: Macro-Evolution - "Impossible!")
 
(...) The only thing that is credible, other than perhaps my conclusion that you have got to be winding me up about all this, is that "Dr Dino" has been kissing the blarney stone in a big way. For example, on the "win a great deal of cash" section, (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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