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According to the Reading and Writing and Religion II a report by the Texas Freedom Network, many Texas children are being taught creationism including the myth that the earth is only 6,000 years old. So what do you think of this development? What should we do about it? Should creationism be taught in schools?
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I can't post a link right now because I don't have enough posts however a simple google search will provide you with enough sources.
JakeStarkey said:The atheist and the fundamentalist can be equally dangerous to the welfare of humanity.
According to the Reading and Writing and Religion II a report by the Texas Freedom Network, many Texas children are being taught creationism including the myth that the earth is only 6,000 years old. So what do you think of this development? What should we do about it? Should creationism be taught in schools?
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I can't post a link right now because I don't have enough posts however a simple google search will provide you with enough sources.
It's better than teaching in favor of socialism and that capitalism is evil as government schools across the country do already
The atheist will certainly disagree with the implications of "The "Big Bang" was a Creationist Event. Nobody doubts that. Nobody."
JakeStarkey said:The atheist and the fundamentalist can be equally dangerous to the welfare of humanity.
Most Fundies are not dangerous to anyone but Satan. Most atheists are dangerous to everyone but Satan, their father/god.
According to the Reading and Writing and Religion II a report by the Texas Freedom Network, many Texas children are being taught creationism including the myth that the earth is only 6,000 years old. So what do you think of this development? What should we do about it? Should creationism be taught in schools?
Edit:
I can't post a link right now because I don't have enough posts however a simple google search will provide you with enough sources.
It's better than teaching in favor of socialism and that capitalism is evil as government schools across the country do already
From the link above: "Unfortunately, the evidence for this diaspora is a good deal less solid than the evidence for the flood itself. Linguists have long known how to reconstruct ancient languages by looking at words that have survived in the descendants of those languages today. The date of an event like the split-up of the Indo-European languages can then be estimated by comparing those words with artifacts found in excavations — a language probably won't have a word for "wheel," for example, unless it actually uses wheeled vehicles. "It is unlikely that the Indo-European languages split up before 3500 B.C. (that is, 2,000 years after the Black Sea flood)," says University of Chicago linguist Bill Darden, basing his conclusion on this sort of argument. If he and his colleagues are right, then the diaspora part of the flood story will be just another beautiful theory shot down by ugly facts.
Read more: Evidence for a Flood | Science & Nature | Smithsonian Magazine
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Local floods, sure. Regional floods, perhaps. Worldwide flood with Noah's Ark bobbing along, nope, no proof scientifically for that.
The oldest age for a tree that has ever been recorded is approximately 5,200 years old. A bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) known as Prometheus was cut down from Mt Wheeler in Nevada, USA in 1963. Although 4,867 rings were counted, the tree was growing in a harsh ennvironment which slowed its development, and thus its actual age is believed to have been approximately 5,200 years old.
http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/records-1/oldest-tree-ever-documented/
No, the creationists believes that Big Bang was such an event. However, there is nothing behind the Idea of a Great Creator except philosophical constructs, which are . . . philosophical not empirical.
No, the creationists believes that Big Bang was such an event. However, there is nothing behind the Idea of a Great Creator except philosophical constructs, which are . . . philosophical not empirical.
Then what caused the Big Bang? Happenstance?
Yeah, right. A PERFECT combination of atoms, molecules, elements, gravity, time, weak and strong nuclear and electromagnetism just happened to get together in an infinitely small, infinitely dense, infinitely hot, infinitely massive, infinitely powerful with infinite energy in a blob to explode with infinite fury in order to create a Perfect universe?
You got a real brain there, Sir Isaac.
No, the creationists believes that Big Bang was such an event. However, there is nothing behind the Idea of a Great Creator except philosophical constructs, which are . . . philosophical not empirical.
Then what caused the Big Bang? Happenstance?
Yeah, right. A PERFECT combination of atoms, molecules, elements, gravity, time, weak and strong nuclear and electromagnetism just happened to get together in an infinitely small, infinitely dense, infinitely hot, infinitely massive, infinitely powerful with infinite energy in a blob to explode with infinite fury in order to create a Perfect universe?
You got a real brain there, Sir Isaac.
No, the creationists believes that Big Bang was such an event. However, there is nothing behind the Idea of a Great Creator except philosophical constructs, which are . . . philosophical not empirical.
Then what caused the Big Bang? Happenstance?
Yeah, right. A PERFECT combination of atoms, molecules, elements, gravity, time, weak and strong nuclear and electromagnetism just happened to get together in an infinitely small, infinitely dense, infinitely hot, infinitely massive, infinitely powerful with infinite energy in a blob to explode with infinite fury in order to create a Perfect universe?
You got a real brain there, Sir Isaac.
My brain works better than yours: the answer is we don't know. So we have Theories, among them are Creationism and ID.
Evolution is not about first causes at all, but rather about how species evolve.
M-Theory has in recent years offered a plausible explanation for the Big Bang, by the way.
Then what caused the Big Bang? Happenstance?
Yeah, right. A PERFECT combination of atoms, molecules, elements, gravity, time, weak and strong nuclear and electromagnetism just happened to get together in an infinitely small, infinitely dense, infinitely hot, infinitely massive, infinitely powerful with infinite energy in a blob to explode with infinite fury in order to create a Perfect universe?
You got a real brain there, Sir Isaac.
My brain works better than yours: the answer is we don't know. So we have Theories, among them are Creationism and ID.
Evolution is not about first causes at all, but rather about how species evolve.
You only wish your brain worked half as well as mine.
Outside that snark, I don't disagree with the rest.
There are things we don't know, there are things we can't know and there are things we will never know.
We don't even understand gravity yet, one of the four Fundamental Forces and people want to talk about how they're smarter than God?
Right.
Einstein believed in God. Although he didn't believe in a 'personal' God (like me) he believed in a Creator. Like me.
Sir Isaac Newton, whose shoes Einstein wasn't qualified to carry, believed in God.
Copernicus believed in God.
Mendel believed in God, Kepler believed in God, Galileo believed in God.....
Some pretty smart people.
Newton was so incredibly brilliant, he had to invent an entirely new Mathematical System (calculus) to prove his theories. He freaking INVENTED Physics.
But he was so stupid as to believe in God?
Right...
We don't even understand gravity yet, one of the four Fundamental Forces and people want to talk about how they're smarter than God?
