Why can’t Creationists teach an alternative? Are the ‘free thinkers’ - atheists scared of som

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STATISTICS, huh?

Now your'e talking OT's language!!!

Welcome friend!

OldThinker

Impressive list.

It really is a tough call for me. On one hand it seems unfair to include one but not the other, on the other I want children to just get the facts as science knows them in science class and leave the rest to parents. What if I am a Catholic that accepts the theory that "God used the process of evolution to perfect His creation?" and my children go to school where a hard-line Southern Baptist teaches that God only did a "poof" and the world was instantly made? How do I reconcile that with my child while dealing with the second influence in their life; which is a man who always undermines what I say as sin?

There are so many reasons I can think of why it should stay out, and not that many that think it should go in.

reply to post by Edrick

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18 INCHES.????

DOES THAT COUNT AS A mower?

OT

reply to post by Conclusion

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You are talking about abiogenesis,evolution doesn't study how life started.Just how it evolves.



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reply to post by OldThinker

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Thanks for the welcome. I have been reading some of your stuff. Although i am sure i am not as educated as you, I do seem to understand your points.
Great thread S&F.

reply to post by Conclusion

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LOL. That is hilarious. I don't mean this as an insult. I understand what you mean. I used to think that way for a long time. Actually I agree with you, however, I UNDERSTAND the skeptics side.

BUT...

Have you ever heard of the infinite monkey theorem?

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No. Please explain it.

OT, I am still waiting on your answers.

When was the last time you jumped off a cliff trying to disprove the theory of gravity?
Do you believe that I'm a pixie living inside your computer screen and writing this stuff?

Yes, buts that only the beginning...please research George Washington Carver, he had OVER 300 DISCOVERIES....

He said, "Without my Savior, I am nothing." With his Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, George Washington Carver was greatly used by God to discover countless numbers of scientific wonders and to lead a life which has inspired millions of Christians everywhere.

Too bad today, he'd be relagated to some small college, irrelevant...

We miss So much truth today because of censorship....sad!

Man's SLAVE became GOD'S SCIENTIST here: www.christianbook.com...

Yet, WE IGNORE>>>>>

Wonder who TODAY has been "SET ASIDE" and may never reach TRUTH to convey to us????

OT honored!

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In short:


en.wikipedia.org...

How long is infinity? Let's say trillions of years. Never mind that there may be multiple numbers of universes.

In this context, what is to stop us from saying that it's impossible for life to arise?

I am not disagreeing with you. I am presenting you with the skeptic's side to this idea.

Well fellows, here's the math, on evolutions PROBABILITY...



Source/more here: www.talkreason.org...

OT math dude

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But, and like i said i am not very educated, it would seem to me that if evolution is real, i am not saying it isn't, then it would be an ongoing process. Now we have humans and our closest relative chimpanzees. Where are all of the evolutionary steps between us. Missing with no evidence. Not alive today. It makes no sense to me. I just don't understand.

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POINT?


That's a distraction friend....


Unless OT missed something....the eyes are going tho....please elaborate, ok?

Old OT

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Very good point.

haha well of course they would bar him from any good science course, crazy old fool with all that outdated and wrong science! Didn't you hear Newtonian model is old news, energy is equal to the mass times speed of light in a vacume squared, clocks tell diffrent times on trains, etc, etc - Did anyone even mention that light is both a particle AND a wave? lol, silly old newton thought Gravity was a PULL not a PUSH haha sorry old buddy, this is a science school you'll need to do a PHD at least.....

haha of course i jest, Newton wouldn't have sat around pondering what makes apples fall or whatever he did with himself back when you had to wear silly hats and ruffles - asumeing that somehow the same newton was born into todays world we can only assume that he would be out looking for 'the god particle' at LHC or debating fineman on the nature of 9,10,11 and 12 dimensional physics.

We must then assume that if his scientific and social upbringing were different, i'm sure the amount of times he says 'privy wench' would be drastically cut in the 21st C for example, then we must assume that his religious tendency would also be modeled in a more modernist vein. Who knows what he would have made of our modern society, maybe he would have made youtube videos about stupid statistical fallacys which seem to disprove evolution for a second, we just don't know. I get the feeling that he might well have joined with everyone else involved in serious rational study of the world and decided that god either doesn't exist or isn't interested so one might as well get on with the things we can know for sure, the things science hopes to prove through study, observation and repeated experiment.

OT does believe there are those ATS-er's that will do their due diligence....

For those ready, willing, and have the time, here's a good start...

Elsberry, W, and Shallit, J. (2004) "Playing Games with Probability: Dembski's Complex Specified Information." In Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism, Rutgers University Press: Piscataway, New Jersey.

Häggström, O. (2007) "Intelligent Design and the NFL Theorems." Biology and Philosophy, 22:217-230.

Matzke, N. (2007) "Book Review: The Edge of Creationism." Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 22:566-567.

National Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine (2008). Science, Evolution, and Creationism. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. www.nap.edu/catalog/11876.html

Olofsson, P. (2008) "Intelligent Design and Mathematical Statistics: A Troubled Alliance." Biology and Philosophy (in press).

Perakh, M. (2003) Unintelligent Design. Prometheus Books: Amherst, New York.

Shallit, J. (2002) "Book Review: No Free Lunch." BioSystems, 66:93-99.

Sober, E. (2002) "Intelligent Design and Probability Reasoning." International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion, 52:65-80.


U2U me after you have read....

2 and 2 = 4 OT

reply to post by OldThinker

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lol. I am afraid that would be over my head.

friend you are better than that right?

You are not judging one from the 200 yr later vantage point are you? come on now....

??????

OT


Please articulate the discoveries learned SINCE....be careful realy cause OT's gonna show you.....followers of Jesus found them toooooooo.....

Oh well, Humble OT just askin'

lol!!!!

No prob....


Its the heart friend...where EFFECTIVENESS lies.....

Remember Solomon? Proverbs 4:23

OT