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Review of Discovery Institute's Evolution Textbook
Darwinned writes "Intelligent Design is still a hot topic, as evidenced by recent legislation mandating that it be taught in school. Pro-ID group Discovery Institute has released an evolution textbook for use in schools, but a review shows it to be chock full of bad science and questionable reasoning. 'The book doesn't only promote stupidity, it demands it. In every way except its use of the actual term, this is a creationist book, but its authors are expecting that legislators and the courts will be too stupid to notice that, or to remember that the Supreme Court has declared teaching creationism an unconstitutional imposition of religion.'"
wow your cynicism and bigotry are profound. i would like to point out that all the crap you are spouting was shoved into your head by people with agendas also. if you weren't a narrow minded brainwashed non thinking minion of the leftist pseudo intelligentsia and were capable of independent thought of any kind you would read what you just wrote and apologize for being an idiot, jerk, and hypocrite. oh and your belief system sucks too.
your 8 year old doesn't understand the concept of a 1000 years. he doesn't even understand 10 years yet. This is your argument? epic fail
Does evolution really offer an explanation for the origin of humanity based solely on natural processes?
Straw man alert! Evolution describes how animal and plant species changed and/or diversified since life on earth began. Your comment is kinda doing the illogical "switcharoo" there by confusing the study of the origins of the universe, with the study of the origins of the species. Reel it in there son. Maybe spend a bit more time on your critical thinking skills, yeah?
Where did the original matter making up the primordial soup (or the infinitesimally small mass before the big bang) come from?
Science is concerned with everything up until that point. It's absurd to hypothesize beyond that because logic itself may not even be valid in that context.
What about these natural laws that seem to govern the universe which make natural processes possible?
Completely and utterly the wrong question to ask. If I had to tally up the amount of circumstances, events, and coincidences that had to occur in order for a sperm cell to eventually become who I am some decades later, I would end up with some fucking crazy hyper-insane unfathomably unlikely odds. This means I can't possibly exist without someone actually planning it that way from the beginning. Right? I am, considering the vast amount of other possibilities, essentially impossible.
So how am I here? Let's try a little thing called LOGIC!
Throw a deck of cards into the air. Take note of which cards land face up and which cards land face down. OH MY GOD THERE ARE EXACTLY 2^52 (4503599627370496) POSSIBILITIES OF THAT EXACT COMBINATION OCCURING! This MUST mean somebody planned it that way. Right? That combination you observed is unfeasibly unlikely so as to be impossible without some "god" designing it that way. Right?
Life in the universe is tuned to the characteristics of the universe. NOT the other way around. It is NOT logical to ask the question you asked.
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Today's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why. -- Hunter S. Thompson