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Kansas Challenges Definition of Science
nysus writes "Anti-evolutionists have made classrooms in Kansas a key battleground in America's culture war. Again. The New York Times reports they are proposing to change the definition of science in Kansas: 'instead of "seeking natural explanations for what we observe around us," the new standards would describe it as a "continuing investigation that uses observation, hypothesis testing, measurement, experimentation, logical argument and theory building to lead to more adequate explanations of natural phenomena."'" From the article: "In the first of three daylong hearings being referred to here as a direct descendant of the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial in Tennessee, a parade of Ph.D.'s testified Thursday about the flaws they saw in mainstream science's explanation of the origins of life. It was one part biology lesson, one part political theater, and the biggest stage yet for the emerging movement known as intelligent design, which posits that life's complexity cannot be explained without a supernatural creator."
So the only word of God you have is from over a millenia ago? In a thousand years God may not have changed his/her mind? Could you really be a supreme being while being so inflexible? Man oh man. Try thinking for yourself. Ask yourself what a kind and benevolent God would do instead of what was written down long ago.
Why do you believe some books- written by guys who may have been higher than a kite on hash are the word of God? They've been translated- how do you know what you are reading is accurate?
Knowing there is a God- I get that. Believing in some books written ages ago that you have not read in their original language I do not get. Why do you believe they are the word of God? Because someone told you? What about the contradictions? What about the innaccuracies? Isn't it just possible that although God's hand may have guided the original authors that perhaps, over a millenia the words have been changed, ammended, mistranslated and otherwise bastardized?
Stop worshipping a book and try worshipping your God. Frankly the bible thumpers seem to me to be violating the first commandment by putting the Bible before God's will.
-sirket