 JohnWaterman says: The science: Truth is now in the eyes of the beholder, it seems. Pity people who use these religions and their radical ideas, don't know the truth. Must make life easier for their under used intelligence. It can only be faith that would inspire even average minds to believe this dogma. 1st I want to thank you for all the wonderful clips you cull from the plethora of information available on the net. Where creationism gets it's strength is from the belief that this finite, sometimes painful existence can be surpassed by eternity after death. It is a faith based belief that many of us were raised by loving, caring parents to believe as implicitly true. My saving grace was an inherent inquisitiveness to understand who, what, when, where, how and WHY, which I was also taught by my mothers, that I had a right to. Obviously very few of the answers given to my inquiries where addressed by my then teachers. That inability to address those questions in a satisfying manner led to... That's why religion must stay separated from state affairs and education first of all. When ignorance becoming aggressive and abusive it is always the sign of degradation with wars, terrorism and various crises and cataclysms. Young earth creationists don;t automatically discount these... they believe that the earth was created at a certain age- not that it is actually bearing the appearance of youth. we do want the defects of Darwinism taught, along with scientific alternatives. We also believe it would be better for students’ critical thinking skills if they were taught to separate the unprovable, religious elements of Darwinism (e.g., the natural origin of life on earth, for which there’s virtually no evidence) from observable science, like natural selection (which is explained and utilized as well in the creation model as it is by Darwinism). None of these steps require explicit biblical teaching, nor would they require teachers to bring up the creation myths of Native Americans, Buddhists, or other groups (except perhaps to point out widespread cultural beliefs in creation, flood legends, etc.). Kids don't know what a science is, how you can feed them pseudoscience? which has more myths and pseudoscience? http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/5FC05012-0EEF-4B1D-8D43-D39E713A3788/ If you want to talk creation myths, you can do so on a class about world religion or philosophy but not in biology. They are not the same. Creationism is not a science, it is religion disguised as pseudo-science. Why is it that fundamentalist reduce everything to a religion? @aklimento ,True and all I totally agree with your comments about separation of church from states or Sharia law crap from dark ages. Young earth creationists don;t automatically discount these... they believe that the earth was created at a certain age- not that it is actually bearing the appearance of youth.@rvnurse2b, I'm not sure that I understand what you mean. Are you saying that YECs claim that God made Earth recently but put in place all the evidence in the clip to make it appear old? If so, do you agree with them? BTW Darwinism has nothing to do with the origins of life, and evolution doesn't need proving any more than gravity does. It is a reality - a fact. John. YEC's tend to believe in a literal, Bible-based 6 day creation, in which animals and man were created at their adult ages. They see no problem with the "age" of the earth because if God could create an adult man, then he could create an "adult" earth that is at the age and stage it must be to support life. Therefore, being created at an advanced age would not necessarily mean that it has been in existence for the entirety of its physical age, only its chronological age- just as Adam may have been created at the age of 20, but did not actually exist for 20 years before that. I mean, If God created the Universe, He should have been able to do it virtually any way he wanted. As for wheth... Let's just break it down to one thing. Religion sates the need for an afterlife in some people. Atheism relieves people of that need. These variations on a theme are based on faith or facts. There is much more controversy about creationism than Darwinism, in the real world. BTW, there is no such thing as "Darwinism", there is the Theory of the Evolution of the Species. The only type of "Darwinism" that exist is Social Darwinism which takes the science of evolution and misapplies it to human society. Two different things. Creationists want their "theory" to be seen as science so it can be taught in public schools, overcoming the separation of church and state. However, regardless of the proposition's content, it does not use the methods of science. Science is about methods of learning about and understanding the world -- not about the content. Unfortunately, many grade school teachers, and even high school teachers, do not understand that, and tend to teach sciences as a bunch of facts. Why not teach astrology next to astronomy and alchemy with chemistry? Why not teach astrology next to astronomy and alchemy with chemistry?Poor kids.  |
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