Slashdot Mirror
Want a Science Degree In Creationism?
The Bad Astronomer writes "In Texas, a state legislator wants the ironically-named Institute for Creation Research to be able to grant a Masters degree in science. In fact, the bill submitted to the Texas congress would make it legal for any private group calling themselves educational to be able to grant advanced degrees in science. So, now's your chance: that lack of a PhD in Astrology and Alchemy won't hold you back any longer."
The Institute for Creation Research made a similar request to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board last year, but were shot down.
I mean, real schools offer up degrees in philosophy, pottery, and basket weaving and who knows what.
Let's not throw stones so easily around here.
I love how slashdot posts these creationism stories to stir up the flamewars and mock the religious.
I know you know this, but please believe not all Christians are this dumb. Most christians are honest thoughtful individuals who work hard, volunteer, and contribute positively to society. And further, when oil peaks and busts, we'll be happy we still have the Churches out there to help care for the sudden and temporary rush of poverty across the nation. That is what the church is for, helping people who are in need. Not Creationism. And most christians would agree with me.
I've given up on Slashdot's comment scores.
Creationism is not science, and should not be equated to one.
And "evolution" is science??? Uh.... it's been tested and demonstrated and is reproducible under controlled circumstances? Where? When? By Who? Oh yeah, I forgot... it's a matter of faith! Faith that rejects God is now called Science, where faith that accepts God is quackery. Lots of "open minded" folks here!
As always, and far too often, I am making my regular anti-evolutionary post to a pro-evolution writeup on Slashdot.
The evidence disproving evolution is so strong and conclusive, it is pretty much a proven fact that it is incorrect. The people that try so hard to expose the communistic conspiracy against it are all held as loonies, as the general public have been brainwashed all too well.
The evidence for creationism is strong, and most of the stuff you think you know about it is likely wrong.
See http://www.bcmin.us/main/?q=node/31
...If a fossil is ever discovered...
Fossils are actually a big problem for the theory of evolution. A key requirement for evolution to take place at all is time, immense amounts of time. Nobody has ever made a fossil, especially by the mechanism of evolution which requires so much time. We know that today no fossils form because any living matter is attacked by microorganisms. To make a fossil requires sudden-death of a living creature, such as a dinosaur and immediate sterilization of the remains to kill ALL microorganisms. Only after that can slower mineralization processes begin to operate and make a fossil. There is simply no known process, whereby such a wide variety of organisms could be fossilized. If you are an evolutionist that says that fossils give evidence for your theory, then make a fossil, say of any fish, to show by the scientific experimental method how this might have happened.
(...a unique biochemistry that couldn't possibly have arisen through common descent...)
Why does it have to be common descent rather than a common functional design requirements? A sparrow, Cessna airplane and a Boeing 747 all have wings and tail as well as other necessities in order to fly, yet no one argues, common descent. The same is true of a stagecoach and a modern automobile in that they both have wheels and operate on roads.
The idea of common ancestry is an assumption (belief) in the same way that common functional design is an assumption, because nobody (except God) was there when it all began. The common functional design idea definitely holds true for ALL human creations, so why should it not hold true for the orders of magnitude more complex living world? If God (who was there) chooses to communicate a limited amount of information how he did it, we may believe, or not, the truth of such communication.
All human creations originate in human minds. So what is so unusual in claiming that natural creations originated in a mind; the supreme mind of God? I see no problem with believing that God made the first living cell and every other living creature and now our scientists get to figure out HOW it all works and use that knowledge for human betterment.
All theory is gray