Re: TOBS: Public Schools Science Education: What Biology teachers are forced to teach

"jabriol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "Kate " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:29:48 GMT, "jabriol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> > >"Maverick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > >> JaBrIoL wrote:
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> > >> > Why do so many science teachers in America promote mindless, chance
> > >> > evolution as fact? One reason is that "Darwinist fundamentalists .
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> > >> > control the science departments in many universities," says Phillip
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> > >> > Johnson, law professor at the University of California at Berkeley.
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> > >> Because evolution is the best theory that we have today.
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> > >ahhhhh so .... it must be taught as the only method that man arrived on
> the
> > >planet, beside contradictions, lack of transitionals, and or incomplete
> > >fossil records...  I see.
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> > Straw man.
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> > No evidence is ever complete.  The only way it could be is if you
> > yourself were there to observe what happened.
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> Exactly, yet biology teachers does not teach this. they teach that the
truth
> are in the bones.

That species change over time is FACT.  We have witnessed this in
laboratories and in the real world.  The common cold is an evolving virus
that changes itself enough that your immune system does not recognize it the
second time around.  That is evolution at work.  How evolution occoured
between the start of life and now is what is still classified under the
realm of theory, yet given the fact of evolution, it isn't very hard at all
to support this theory.

The "gaps" in the fossil record are merely an excuse used by creationists.
For a truly "complete" fossil record, we would have to have a fossil of
every ancestor of every living thing on the planet.  If, say, ants were to
be looked at by themselves, we'd need a phenomonal amount of fossils just
for the last million years, much less the past 3 billion years for all of
life on Earth.  A complete fossil record is not only an impossibility, it's
also an absurdity.

> > If complete evidence was required to prove anything, nothing could be
> > proved - no one would ever be judged guilty and science would not
> > exist.
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> not true. and how many people based on faulty evidence, goes to death row
> for years, then released???

Evolution has been on "death row" for a good long time now.  If there any
counter evidence, it would have been "released" and no longer regarded as a
valid theory.

> > To push this crap is essentially revealing you have a motive and are
> > trying to lie to people.
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> no lie here..

There goes another one.