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Intelligent Design and Evolution. How do you decide?

 
  

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Hieronymus
16:44 / 25.05.07
Another article about said museum:

Museum guides tell visitors that before Adam and Eve were expelled from paradise all of the dinosaurs were peaceful plant-eaters.

In Genesis 1:30 God gives ‘green herb’ to every creature to eat and so there were no predators. When a curious museum visitor asks, why exactly T. rex had six-inch long serrated teeth, the guides go on to explain that T. rex used his big teeth to open coconuts. Apparently it was only after Adam and Eve sinned and were cast out of paradise that the dinosaurs started to eat flesh.


I had "Put The Lime In The Coconut" in my head for daaays after reading that.
 
 
Janean Patience
11:05 / 06.08.07
Today's Melanie Phillips column in the Daily Mail, Barbelith's favourite daily paper, presents the argument that science and reason are undermining themselves now they've no solid moral foundation in religion. It's a hard argument to sum up because of its recursive rhetoric. She refers to:

A school of scientists promoting the theory of Intelligent Design... [which] itself is being stifled - on the totally perverse grounds that this argument does not conform to the rules of science which require evidence to support a theory.

Yes, the pernicious perversity of requiring scientists to follow the rules of science. And anyone familiar with later Cerebus will recognise the strange, swooping, self-contradictory path of Melanie's piece. Odd - a national newspaper article read by hundreds of thousands which closely shadows the arguments, the logic and even the religious beliefs of Dave Sim.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
12:17 / 07.08.07
I think the best way out of this increasingly unpleasant situation would involve not, as Dawkins says, getting the religious to stop being religious full stop (because I doubt this will happen any time soon, and because not all religious people are maniacs), but to get them to understand the importance of keeping science lessons pure science, of keeping the science establishment pure. If we could only get a few prominent Bishops to speak out on this, we might defuse the problem.

Also, if I can use this thread to ask a question, I'm interested to know to what extent evangelical churches are active in Britain - and are they putting the same pressures on education as the American ones?
 
 
jamesPD
12:52 / 07.08.07
There was a story in The Guardian a while ago about the subject of teaching creationism in schools. The problem appear to be that by having private companies or individuals help fund the building of new schools gives them some sway as to what it taught there.
 
 
grant
14:56 / 03.12.07


You can't make it up.
There's a "search inside" thing at that Amazon link.
 
 
Closed for Business Time
15:00 / 03.12.07
Not when this completes the double whammy. AHAHAHAHAHA!!
 
 
Evil Scientist
22:26 / 21.01.14
Bump
 
 
SnakePlissken
22:05 / 24.03.14
One thing to bear in mind is that evolution is NOT imcompatible with religion, just biblical literalism.
I'm agnostic on the whole god issue, but I did suffer through catholic grammar school and high school.
It may suprise some to know that official catholic doctrine is that god created humanity via the process of evolution.
I'm sure many catholics either don't know or don't agree with this.
If you haven't seen it, watch Inherit The Wind. Spencer Tracey's performance is like a refreshing splash of cool water when you're feeling burnt out by all the fundamentalist fervor.
 
 
AlDragone
02:55 / 26.03.14
I've always seen biblical literalism as incompatible with religion, and most religious people that I know would be more surprised to know this kind of debate happen in real life...
Guess it shows how different is Catholicism in different places.
 
  

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