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The Dogma of Darwinian Evolution |
The Dogma of Darwinian Evolution
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2006/04/the_dogma_of_darwinian_evoluti.html
Discovery Institute - Seattle,WA,USA
The Dogma of Darwinian Evolution
Human Events Online has published a wonderful little essay by Greg Frankey
explaining how liberal organizations like the ACLU and Americans United for
Separation of Church and State are working to keep any mention of
intelligent design out of public school classes of any stripe, let alone
science classes.
In arguing so he shows how the teaching of evolution itself is nothing more
than dogma, and points to some of the more pressing problems with the whole
theory.
As counterintuitive as it seems that a species could develop new
physical traits simply because such a mutation might be advantageous (can
we all learn to fly or to breathe underwater if we just wish to long
enough?), it simply defies credulity to think that human beings not only
physically evolved from ape-like creatures, but developed the ability to
think rationally by a similar process.
Certainly this would be an unprecedented phenomenon, entailing a much
more extreme manner of natural selection than that which is known to occur.
According to Casey Luskin, Public Policy spokesman for the
Seattle-based Discovery Institute, which is seeking to establish the right
of teachers to question Evolutionary theory, the question isn't whether it
would have been advantageous for man to develop the ability to reason -- of
course it would have. The real question is whether mutations are capable of
producing this. "This certainly seems to strain Darwin's theory. It appears
that something else has to be added to the equation to explain human
complexity."
Readers interested in this particular topic of the whole debate would be
well severd by going back and reading David Berlinski's award winning
article "On The Origin of Mind."
In wrapping up Frankey writes:
The reality is that simply accepting Darwinian dogma in spite of the
many troublesome questions that arise entails far more faith than simply
subscribing to Intelligent Design -- or believing in God. This is not to
state with finality that evolutionary theory is false -- only that there
are enough substantive problems with it that attempting to characterize it
as all but factual, and therefore immune from challenge is a fundamentally
flawed view.
Posted by Robert Crowther on April 28, 2006 06:13 AM
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You are invited to check out the following:
The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocracy.htm
American Theocrats - Past and Present
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocrats.htm
The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
[and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation of
Church and State in general, listed below]
HRSepCnS · Hampton Roads [Virginia] SepChurch&State
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HRSepCnS/
[Its not just Hampton Roads folks who are members, there are members from
all over the US and a couple from overseas as well]
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.. . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
.. . .
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"You pilot always into an unknown future;
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That philosophy 'snipit' helped to get me, and my crew, through a good
many combat missions and far too many scary, inflight, emergencies.
It has also played a significant role in helping me to expose the
plethora of radical Christian propaganda and lies that we find at
almost every media turn.
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THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE:
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http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
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| User: "Christopher A. Lee" |
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| Title: Re: The Dogma of Darwinian Evolution |
29 Apr 2006 05:14:00 AM |
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On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 05:53:22 -0400, wrote:
The Dogma of Darwinian Evolution
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2006/04/the_dogma_of_darwinian_evoluti.html
Discovery Institute - Seattle,WA,USA
The Dogma of Darwinian Evolution
Human Events Online has published a wonderful little essay by Greg Frankey
explaining how liberal organizations like the ACLU and Americans United for
Separation of Church and State are working to keep any mention of
intelligent design out of public school classes of any stripe, let alone
science classes.
In arguing so he shows how the teaching of evolution itself is nothing more
than dogma, and points to some of the more pressing problems with the whole
theory.
Creationists are incredibly stupid, religiously motivated liars.
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| User: "Samuel W. Heywood" |
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| Title: Re: The Dogma of Darwinian Evolution |
29 Apr 2006 06:00:11 AM |
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On Sat, 29 Apr 2006, Christopher A. Lee wrote:
On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 05:53:22 -0400, wrote:
The Dogma of Darwinian Evolution
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2006/04/the_dogma_of_darwinian_evoluti.html
Discovery Institute - Seattle,WA,USA
There is no dogma of Darwinian evolution. There are other very
interesting scientific theories besides Darwins's that attempt to
explain how evolution happens. Those theories are subject to debate.
The ACLU and the Americans United for Church and State are not opposed
to allowing discussions in science classes in the public schools on
any scientific theory on the subject of how evolution happens. The
big fuss is only about how the creationists are trying to fool the
scientists into thinking that their theories are scientific theories.
So far the creationists have not succeeded at fooling the scientists.
Sam Heywood
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