Evolution in skool (the hidden facts) (Darwin, creation, godless, pagan)

[painted wolf]

Originally Posted by JoeCole

I think evolution should be taught if its going to be taught with other opposing theories.

ID isn't a theory, its a statement.
Should we teach alternate 'theories' to other scientific discoveries?
Many religions do not follow the Germ thoery of disease, should we then teach that the idea that 'evil spirits' and deamons cause illness?

some links on precambrian fossils to clear up this "cambrian explosion" nonsence.
http://www.geo.tcu.edu/PCfossils.html
http://www.trilobites.info/origins.htm
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/97/13/6947
http://members.rediff.com/mistakenpoint/paper2.html
http://www.uni-muenster.de/GeoPalaeo...ot/seite1.html
http://www.uni-muenster.de/GeoPalaeo...ot/seite1.html

again, most of the good precambrian fossils have been discovered in the past decade or two... Ann seems to be using primarily information from the 1970's.

wa:do

[Draka]

Just want to pop in here for a little bit. A couple things here are bothering me. First, the constant, purposeful, misspelling of the word "school". How is it so difficult to spell it correctly? Second, the idea that a "theory" is just an idea and has nothing to do with facts.

NOUN:
pl. the·o·ries

1. A set of statements or principles devised to explain a group of facts or phenomena, especially one that has been repeatedly tested or is widely accepted and can be used to make predictions about natural phenomena.
2. The branch of a science or art consisting of its explanatory statements, accepted principles, and methods of analysis, as opposed to practice: a fine musician who had never studied theory.
3. A set of theorems that constitute a systematic view of a branch of mathematics.
4. Abstract reasoning; speculation: a decision based on experience rather than theory.
5. A belief or principle that guides action or assists comprehension or judgment: staked out the house on the theory that criminals usually return to the scene of the crime.
6. An assumption based on limited information or knowledge; a conjecture.

Apologies for being the spelling and English definition police here. It's just driving me a bit nuts is all.

[Booko]

Originally Posted by Draka

Just want to pop in here for a little bit. A couple things here are bothering me. First, the constant, purposeful, misspelling of the word "school". How is it so difficult to spell it correctly? Second, the idea that a "theory" is just an idea and has nothing to do with facts.

It's the way Ann Coulter spells it. She's an expert in the science of denigration, and spelling it "skool" is just one way she denigrates public schools.

Apologies for being the spelling and English definition police here. It's just driving me a bit nuts is all.

You are not alone.

[Booko]

Originally Posted by BarryPrays

Hi, this guy at homeworkhelp.madpage.com is saying that evolution is proven and that religions brainwash people. Can anyone help me defend the view that religion is still important in the world today? Thanks All

And stay on topic?

Ask him how science inspired people to help all those people displaced in Hurricane Katrina last year.

[JerryL]

Ask him how science inspired people to help all those people displaced in Hurricane Katrina last year.

Athiests helped too.

[Booko]

Originally Posted by JerryL

Athiests helped too.

Naturally.