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I'm lost.
IF someone believes that God did anything .. they only believe that. IF they believe it, it doesn't make it fact.
Point being, religion is belief .. that's all it is.
American Taliban is a minority that intimidates the rest of the Christians and leads the Calvary when it comes to oppressing non-Christians. Also, they are experts at playing the victim, like crying about the war on Christmas or insisting Jesus and Santa are both White.Calamity, a more intelligent person would recognize that your original remark concerned a 1/3 of the US population, while the type of violence you are now citing in support of your characterization was carried out by an extreme minority within that group.
Tell that to those persecuted by the American Taliban, especially women seeking an abortion or gays wishing to marry.Now, considering our past discussions, I understand such obvious and simple facts will never sway you, but given the irony of such in this thread it might be worth throwing it out there and letting everyone "chew on it"
Ok, so why bring up a 'boogeyman' that doesn't exist?
I'm going to assume you mean keep, "there is no God", out of the science classes when I agree with you 100%
There is no scientific evidence disproving the existence of God, therefore that would be an inappropriate statement to make in a science class, yes.
There have been efforts that have thankfully failed for the most part. Although several states have passed laws that deliberately downplay evolution. The Supreme Court smacked down the outright teaching of creationism in a science class, but there are ongoing attempts to circumvent that by rebranding creationism as "intelligent design."
I am not sure how to simplify it for you and more than I already have.
If you give Creationists their way, it will exist. It shouldn't.
They shouldn't be teaching about God in science classes one way or the other. It's not science, it's faith.
Which isn't to say faith isn't important, just that it's not science.
American Taliban is a minority that intimidates the rest of the Christians and leads the Calvary when it comes to oppressing non-Christians. Also, they are experts at playing the victim, like crying about the war on Christmas or insisting Jesus and Santa are both White.
Tell that to those persecuted by the American Taliban, especially women seeking an abortion or gays wishing to marry.
It's also anti-religion. Promoting the belief that there is no god is a violation of the 1st Amendment.
The fact remains that today Evolution and Creationism are not taught side by side in Public schools, despite your fears.
They shouldn't be teaching about God in science classes one way or the other. It's not science, it's faith.
Which isn't to say faith isn't important, just that it's not science.
Depends upon the context. Creation (of the universe) is still a subject we're exploring, it's not settled science yet. God is one of the possible initiators.
The fact remains that single-payer healthcare doesn't exist in America, so I shouldn't expect to see you in any health care threads talking about socialism, right?
Right - because the rest of the world undoubtedly believes in evolution. (sarcasm). It's just us retarded Americans who can't get our **** together who are dumb.
For many people - in a large number of religions - it conflicts with religious doctrines or they're not taught any such thing in school (if they have a school at all to attend).
You're acting like knowledge that we teach is some sort of generic info that everyone is aware of. Evolution is a relatively new school of thought in contrast to things like math. And couple that with religious conflicts - it's often not taught at all in school save for 'a theory'
Because - mind you - it is still just a theory.
Gravity is a theory too. Yet it has been observed. Mitochondrial DNA, the fossil record, and other observations put evolution into the same kind of area as gravity . . . yes?
In any case I'm not sure how well the topic of breeding fits in with natural selection.
I should have been more clear. I know they are classified in the genus Pan. However, due to dna sequencing done over the last decade or so, we know that they should actually be classified in the same genus that we are in.
One-third of Americans reject evolution, poll shows
Okay - who here rejects evolution?
Show of hands please.
"Republicans" are growing skeptical???? Really?
Like there's growing evidence against evolution?
One-third of Americans reject evolution, poll shows
Okay - who here rejects evolution?
Show of hands please.
"Republicans" are growing skeptical???? Really?
Like there's growing evidence against evolution?
I have mixed feelings about this issue.
While I personally believe that evolution has happened and is going on right now, I don't believe that those who deny the existence of evolution should be forced to evolve.
Never said it did....But one thing science has perpetually had a problem with explaining is what caused the big bang? Where did it come from?
This statement is built on false premises. No, actually, we don't know that for certain. Of course, "order" and "chaos" are human distinctions in the first place.What we know for certain is that "order rising from chaos" of its own accord does NOT happen in anything scientifically observable -> not without preexisting coding to do such (just like a computer program)..... or a plant seed..... or a DNA strand.....
Yes it can be reproduced in a lab and no it's not just from analyzing bone structures.Can you reproduce evolution in a lab? No? Oh it's conjecture from analyzing bone structures? I see... so evolution really isn't science, but conjecture.
Yes. Ironically, DNA is another line of evidence that backs up evolution.Did you know that DNA contains digital instructions sets for creating every component of a symbiotic biological android which is both symbiotic internally and externally?
I think your problem is that you're assuming there's no answer to some of these supposed questions you're raising. Somebody out there told you there's these holes in the theory of evolution. And you didn't check to see if those holes actually existed.And that just happened ... and I'm dumb for questioning the now-ancient reasoning of Chuck Darwin.
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