Some guy celebrates a victory over creationists

[Valka D'Ur]

Gosh, those Christians sure don't accept evolution!

(Except the ones who do . . . but neither side likes us. )

I don't mind talking to Mormons. I've met some rather nice ones, including Dr. Brigham Young Card, who was my sociology and Ed. Psych instructor in college.

But my experiences with the missionaries have shown me that they're not taught much about history, and they'll turn the conversation around in some really bizarre ways. There was a time when they were talking to my grandfather, noticed my science fiction books scattered around the living room (I wasn't home at the time), and told my grandfather that "heaven is on another planet."

 

[mangxema]

This is good and all, but how is this legit? I'm not familiar with UK schools, but isn't the point of there being an independent school that it's... um, independent of the regular district? Under what authority can the gov't mandate this?

Hey, Kenneth Miller is just fine in my book.

Incidentally, Kenneth Miller's book is the closest one to me at the moment.

 

[Whiskey_Lord]

So you are willing to put your hat in with those who are trying to destroy Christianity.

No one is trying to destroy Christianity. Drop the persecution complex.

 

[GamezRule]

No one is trying to destroy Christianity. Drop the persecution complex.

This.

 

[Winner]

Hey, thanks. Czechia sounds a bit ********.

I know, but it's the only acceptable short form I can think of. You could use Bohemia, of course, but that would be a bit odd. In English, it doesn't really matter if you use the official long name, they're used to it.

Btw isnt Czech (Čech / Češka )also a noun? When I say I am from Czech I speak also colloquially. I sense the time for change has come.

With an article it can be a name for an inhabitant of the Czech Republic: "I am a Czech". When you use it without an article, it's an adjective. It can be used in the same sense, but only there, it can't be used like that as a name of the country. For example, you could say "I am French", but you wouldn't say "*I am from French"

I dont know about any schools though...

Thank God for that

 

[Masada]

A spokeswoman for the BHA said: "The government's new wording is quite wide and in practice could prevent those who promote extreme religious or particular spiritual or pseudoscientific approaches from including them as part of the school curriculum as science or as evidence-based."

*snort*

science and evidence in schools? Hah.

 

[_random_]

So you are willing to put your hat in with those who are trying to destroy Christianity.

Who are these people and how did you deduce Eran's association with them from his post?

Incidentally, Kenneth Miller's book is the closest one to me at the moment.

It's a good book, really helped me in understanding that Christianity and evolution aren't incompatible, along with Francis Collins' The Language of God. (Two books I'd heartily recommend to C_H).

 

[Winston Hughes]

This is good and all, but how is this legit? I'm not familiar with UK schools, but isn't the point of there being an independent school that it's... um, independent of the regular district? Under what authority can the gov't mandate this?

Children's right to education includes being taught how science works. Feeding them dogma dressed up as science for the purposes of religious indoctrination is not acceptable in the classroom. Parents are free to teach creationism to their children elsewhere.

 

[Mechanicalsalvation]

Thank God for that

Yes, gratitude to God can be answer to anything....

 

[CaptainF]

So you are willing to put your hat in with those who are trying to destroy Christianity.

Lol, Whenever I think for a second Christianity is a rational belief system, I need only look to it's followers to prove myself wrong.

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[CELTICEMPIRE]

No one is trying to destroy Christianity. Drop the persecution complex.

Children's right to education includes being taught how science works. Feeding them dogma dressed up as science for the purposes of religious indoctrination is not acceptable in the classroom.

how is teaching 2 (or more) sides of a controversial issue indoctrination, indoctrination is when you teach one theory as the only possible explanation and tell people that they are idiots if they think otherwise.

 

[useless]

So you are willing to put your hat in with those who are trying to destroy Christianity.

If Christianity can't abide the truth and actual evidence, maybe it doesn't derserve to exist.

 

[CELTICEMPIRE]

If Christianity can't abide the truth and actual evidence, maybe it doesn't derserve to exist.

Evolutionists always talk about how they have 100% proof of their theory, as if everyone is supposed to know what the proof is, please tell us why creationism is wrong?

 

[useless]

Because there is actual evidence behind the evolutionary theory, whilst creationism relies on a heavily discredited, unscientific, inaccurate book and belief that essentially amounts to "god did it".

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

For one, apparently the Earth was made before the stars even came into existence. That's just the first few lines alone.

 

[CELTICEMPIRE]

But where is your proof that this is wrong, I want proof?

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Red-shifted light from distant galaxies. And no, I'm not going to write out a post where I explain basic physics all the way to general relativity. There are Wikipedia articles for that.

 

[useless]

But where is your proof that this is wrong, I want proof?

The fact that there is evidence that humans are not unique, that there were human-like creatures and predecessors, kind of blows the "god made us in his image, and we are unique" point of view out of the water.

 

[MantaRevan]

But where is your proof that this is wrong, I want proof?

You don't prove that something is wrong. I don't have to. I can sit here and tell you that I'm actually Notch and I'm working with Mojang at the moment, and I think that YOU would expect ME to explain why I DID make make minecraft, rather than tell you that I'm right until you prove to me that I'm not.

So you are willing to put your hat in with those who are trying to destroy Christianity.

Seriously. No one wants to destroy christianity. Don't be so "us against them".

 

[aelf]

To be fair, you can prove a theory wrong by showing that a different theory that is incompatible with it is right. Fortunately, in this case, that's pretty easy.