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Happy 7th Birthday Google!
AviN456 writes "On this day, in 1998, Google was born. Seven years later, and it has not only become the most popular search engine on the internet, but it has also become an integral part of many people's online life. From Google search to Google mail, Google Earth to Google Moon. It has even made its way into language as a common word.It is quite undeniable. Google is an amazing achievement. Happy birthday Google, and here's to many many more!"
Yeah, I mean, we need to only consider science... and ignoring other thoughts, that's not at all a religion... Next thing you know in addition to blaming ills on evil spirits, we'll start treating them with leaches and possibly need to regulate maggots for health treatment.
The fact is, not everyone who disagrees with you is a nut job, and "pissing off the religious right" may make you proud, but science is a series of tests and experiments... Science is the scientific method, and anything that doesn't fall within the scientific method isn't science.
That includes Global Climate Change/Global Cooling/Global Warming/whatever the scare tactic of the decade is... Unless you have two earths somewhere to conduct the tests to determine if humans actually cause a difference. The level of "fact" the global climate change is argued for (with INCORRECT facts, like hurricanes being caused by it... GCC argues for 2 degrees/century, which is NOT the reason for a 2-4 degree increase in the last few years, but that's not what you hear...)
That includes evolution, because you can't test any of it.
GCC and Evolution are ATTEMPTS to explain what appears to be going on, they aren't SCIENCE! The biggest champions of these movements have turned it into a religion... it's an anti-Christian religion, but religion none-the-less.
Evolution is the scientific community's best attempt to explain species, and has some big gaps that they are working on. Some people believe that evolution fails to explain certain complexity and indicates an intelligent design. Who cares... apparently you, because ALL science will now stop, because students are exposed to people that disagree...
Independent thought and people acting different than you REALLY bothers non-conformists, huh?
Alex
*sigh*
Why not just present both theories, and allow the students to make their own minds up?
It would take two teachers, preferably - an evolutionist and a creationist - but it should make everyone happy, unless they want their theory to be the only one presented...