BS: Evolution as Heresy?

Subject: RE: BS: Evolution as Heresy?
From: Bev and Jerry
Date: 19 Dec 05 - 02:29 AM

Well, now the Doonesbury site has a new cartoon on it so you have to press the "previous" button to see the one about evolution.

Bev and Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: Evolution as Heresy?
From: frogprince
Date: 30 Dec 05 - 09:53 PM

Picked up a Christian station in Indiana while on our journey to spend Christmas with kin. They announced that it was almost time for a CREATION MOMENT, so I stayed tuned in out of morbid curiousity; so glad I did. I learned of the recent discovery of a mammal which existed at the same time as some dinosaurs. This proves, we were assured, that all animal life was created on the same day, just like the Bible has said all along...
Uhhhh...Oookay....

Subject: RE: BS: Evolution as Heresy?
From: Bill D
Date: 30 Dec 05 - 11:47 PM

something to read

and something from Darwin himself...
"The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference."   - Charles Darwin








"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not Eureka! (I found it!) but rather, 'hmm.... that's funny...'.."   - Isaac Asimov

Subject: RE: BS: Evolution as Heresy?
From: Amos
Date: 17 Jan 06 - 03:56 PM

From The Onion Issue 41•33:

        Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New 'Intelligent Falling' Theory

KANSAS CITY, KS—As the debate over the teaching of evolution in public schools continues, a new controversy over the science curriculum arose Monday in this embattled Midwestern state. Scientists from the Evangelical Center For Faith-Based Reasoning are now asserting that the long-held "theory of gravity" is flawed, and they have responded to it with a new theory of Intelligent Falling.


Rev. Gabriel Burdett (left) explains Intelligent Falling.
"Things fall not because they are acted upon by some gravitational force, but because a higher intelligence, 'God' if you will, is pushing them down," said Gabriel Burdett, who holds degrees in education, applied Scripture, and physics from Oral Roberts University.

Burdett added: "Gravity—which is taught to our children as a law—is founded on great gaps in understanding. The laws predict the mutual force between all bodies of mass, but they cannot explain that force. Isaac Newton himself said, 'I suspect that my theories may all depend upon a force for which philosophers have searched all of nature in vain.' Of course, he is alluding to a higher power." ...

Subject: RE: BS: Evolution as Heresy?
From: The Shambles
Date: 18 Jan 06 - 05:41 AM

Tenet is defined on Word Web as : A religious doctrine that is proclaimed without proof.

Newton and his fellow scientists are expected not only to predict how the force of gravity will behave but are also expected to explain the force.

The simple religious tenet that some undefined and unproven God is dropping things on us from on high is OK.

Do I see the goalposts being moved here on a rather unlevel playing ground and under a double standard?

Subject: RE: BS: Evolution as Heresy?
From: Pied Piper
Date: 18 Jan 06 - 07:58 AM

This is a spoof, isn't it Amos?

PP

Subject: RE: BS: Evolution as Heresy?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 18 Jan 06 - 10:31 AM

In this morning's newsless rag:

[quote: OCR from scan]

4A THE WICHITA EAGLE
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2006

Calif. district abandons intelligent design class

FRESNO, Calif. —

Under legal pressure, a rural school district Tuesday canceled an elective philosophy course on intelligent design and agreed never to promote the topic in class again.

A group of parents had sued the El Tejon school system last week, accusing it of violating the constitutional separation of church and state with "Philosophy of Design," a high school course taught by a minister's wife that advanced the notion that life is so complex it must have been created by a kind of higher intelligence.

[end quote]

John

Subject: RE: BS: Evolution as Heresy?
From: Amos
Date: 18 Jan 06 - 12:05 PM

PP:
The Onion is a highly reputable source of parody and invention.

Spoof? Why do you ask??? :>D

Their latest issue reports that Bush is having a fire-sale for the Federal Government which is going out of business. Everything must go!! Buy now!!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Evolution as Heresy?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 18 Jan 06 - 12:17 PM

Amos -

Fire Sale?

On inferior merchandise that's now irreparably damaged.

Who'd want it?

And with the number of foreign investors who own the businesses that pull the strings on it, how the h..e..l..l would we know who has a clear title to sell?

John