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Equal Time For Creationism
Brian Berns writes "Many news sources reported on
President Bush's recent semi-endorsement of 'intelligent
design', the politically correct version of
creationism that is currently in vogue among groups of conservative
Christians in the U.S.. While Mr. Bush was reportedly reluctant to make news on
this topic, he apparently felt it was an issue he could not duck. Most of those
same news sources, however, missed the
recent condemnation of Darwinian evolution by the Catholic cardinal
archbishop of Vienna. This NY Times op-ed appears to mark a deliberate attempt
to reverse the late Pope John Paul II's acceptance of evolution as 'more than
just a hypothesis'."
Bush himself seems to be living proof of mankind's evolutionary connection with apes.
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When evolutionary theory tracks all the way back to "origins" it becomes theological too. There is just no repeatable experiements to prove the assumptions it makes. Period. People who want to strip God out of society (like Joseph Stalin attempted to do, and largely succeeded). So don't stop at ID when you bash science that becomes theological.
And as far as not being able to prove your faith; I'm afraid there is ample evidence for your faith in the ressurection and saving power of Christ. Professor Thomas Arnold, for 14 years a headmaster of Rugby, author of the famous, History of Rome, and appointed to the chair of modern history at Oxford, was well acquainted with the value of evidence in determining historical facts. This great scholar said: "I have been used for many years to study the histories of other times, and to examine and weigh the evidence of those who have written about them, and I know of no one fact in the history of mankind which is proved by better and fuller evidence of every sort, to the understanding of a fair inquirer, than the great sign which God bath given us that Christ died and rose again from the dead."
He said this because there are vast amounts of historical and logical evidences for the ressurection. Look into the lives of early Christians and of the apostles. There is vast evidence testifying to the character of these early witnesses. Compare how these *historical figures* lived their lives to historical testimonies of the actions of founders of other religions and the evidence just mounts and mounts. Something powerful changed these men... the same something that resulted in an empty tomb of the most infamous religious figure in the world.
No no no no no. No. No no no. No no no no no, no. Just no. ID supporters, Creationists and the like should be fed to the lions, and I do mean that literally. For it to be linked to EDUCATION in any way is simply abhorrent.
The death blow to theory of evolution was back in the 60s when the calculations were made that proved that evolution is mathematically improbable, so much so that you do not even speak of things that are that improbable.
Evolution is a theory, just as Creation is a theory... It takes more blind faith to think that this world evolved then it does to believe that it was created by inteligent design.
Oh my you have opened a can of worms...
You called a Christian a critical thinker! I can hardly wait to see the fireworks from this!
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Um, Intelligent Design and Creationism are two completely different ideas.
Nope. ID is nothing but a tactic of creationists. It's rather like the veneer that holocaust deniers affect.
-jcr
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The "evangelical athiests" that dominate the liberal establishment created the well financed evangelical christians of today.
By various policies that essentially smashed the Catholic school system that educated the bulk of the middle class in big cities for years, they created the mass of disconnected catholics with poor public educations that went looking elsewhere for religion.
They fell into the hands of independent churches that have turned into reactionary political fundraising machines. You know have INDIVIDUAL churches with 30,000 to 50,000 members that raise tens of millions of dollars annually, much of it going towards political charity rather than the social causes that the catholics always espoused.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and enemy of growth. -JFK
Excellent, so what did the pathogens evolve into? I'm hoping for kittens, but puppies would be fine too.
"I think the people giving Christianity a bad name are in the minority among Christians"
I agree. It's just too bad one of them got elected.
Granted, but when you get right down to it. Let's be frank. People to not want to believe in ID because it puts them in a place where they have to be answerable to someone. And that makes them uncomfortable. If God exists and we are created by Him than we are bound to follow what he says about life and the way we live it, or suffer the consequences. Evolution is basically an excuse for those who would rather not think about what they will have to say to God someday. Look what has happened in the past few years: AIDS is on the rise due to the large amount of homosexuality (the leading cause of AIDS) We have (in the US) slaughtered millions of children via abortion. We have shootings at schools. 50% of women graduating from some colleges have STDs because of pre-marital sex. These are issues that God has allot to say about. But if God does not exist, or if he did not create us than we do not have to answer to him, and none of the above issues matter. Yes, God has given us the right to choose what path we want to follow, but in the end there is only One Way to Him. All others will lead to Hell. Evolution was the beginning of our modern decline because it removed our responsibility to God. Yes I support Equal time for Creationism, becasue maybe, just maybe it will turn our nation back to God. Now, let the flamewar begin ;-)
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I appears that Creationism and Fundamentalism are on the rise.
A good resource for people who use reason and know that evolution is the only possibility should check out evowiki. It gives some pretty good counter arguments to use against creationists and other fundumentalist moro^H^H^H^H types.
Later, GJC
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"The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that all work processes ten towards a greater entropy (disorder/lower energy density) over time." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Law_of_Thermod ynamics
With that being said, evolution states that life has gone from disorder to order, violating this law of science.
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>And don't tell me about some scientists that are religious, real ones aren't. A scientist uses logic and methods throughout their entire lives.
Yep. It's those wonderful "logic" and "methods" that conflict with scientific laws. How about the Law of Biogenesis? Or the Laws of Thermodynamics? These don't exactly work in any way with evolutionary "logic". As a matter of fact, the evidence goes against evolution in these situations. Well actually, evidence goes against evolution in almost every situation anyway lol.
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