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

"Mylon" <[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
> > E.
> > > >> > 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.
> > >
> > > Straw man.
> > >
> > > No evidence is ever complete.  The only way it could be is if you
> > > yourself were there to observe what happened.
> >
> >
> > Exactly, yet biology teachers does not teach this. they teach that the
> truth
> > are in the bones.
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> That species change over time is FACT.

which of the 5 different defintion of species are you refering to?

> 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.

it is still a virus.

> 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.


I am not a creationist, and real scientists admit to "gaps"


> For a truly "complete" fossil record, we would have to have a fossil of
> every ancestor of every living thing on the planet.

yup

 >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.


then education allows an absurdity to be taught?

>
> > > If complete evidence was required to prove anything, nothing could be
> > > proved - no one would ever be judged guilty and science would not
> > > exist.
> >
> > 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.
>

you are right TOE is on death row.


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