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Silent H Member (Idle past 5849 days) Posts: 7405 From: satellite of love Joined: |
I just don't want an atheist state. I fear it. I don't know why. Because it would be oppressive, and worse than that... boring as hell. Diversity of opinion and belief is important. We need crackpots and at least a little bit of delusional and outside the box thinking, just as much as the rigid stick to logic and evidence (and assume that is all there is) types. The key is to make sure there is a government which allows many diverse and conflicting belief systems to live in harmony. That is why a secular government is the best system developed so far. The Romans and Greeks allowed for many, but still an imposition of their own beliefs on top of others. It can work, but its still messy. The founding fathers were quite brilliant in instituting secular gov't. Many mistake secularism in gov't for atheism. It is more like agnosticism or simply "I won't touch that with a ten foot pole"-ism. holmes "...what a fool believes he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.."(D. Bros)
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: quote: I think it is very interesting that you think that ID says there is a god at all, and that is has some "Christian heritage", because the major ID proponents never say that at all. In fact, they take great pains to explain that their idea is not religiously derived at all, and definitely distance themselves from the Christian religion as much as they can. The fact that you think the ID movement is actually founded in Christianity, and is referring to God as the IDer, belies the IDists true source and effect. ID is simply a modern version of God of the Gaps, except they don't call it the Christian God.
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1435 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
I had several comments on commikes posts, they have been moved to the appropriate thread.
For this thread I just would like to note this:
commike37 in msg#8 on {A chance to be a pro-science activist!} thread writes: The Center for Science and Culture reports that "Intelligent design theory is supported by doctoral scientists, researchers and theorists at a number of universities, colleges, and research institutes around the world. is a logical fallacy (appeal to authority) position: creationist love to play the numbers games, and now this "form" of "evidence" appears to be moving into the IDist conceptual arena. For numbers compare you list to "The Steve List"http://www.ncseweb.org/...ticles/3697_the_list_2_16_2003.asp This lists all the scientists who have endorsed the following statement:
Evolution is a vital, well-supported, unifying principle of the biological sciences, and the scientific evidence is overwhelmingly in favor of the idea that all living things share a common ancestry. Although there are legitimate debates about the patterns and processes of evolution, there is no serious scientific doubt that evolution occurred or that natural selection is a major mechanism in its occurrence. It is scientifically inappropriate and pedagogically irresponsible for creationist pseudoscience, including but not limited to "intelligent design," to be introduced into the science curricula of our nation's public schools. see My post #132 on {Intelligent Design Creationism} thread (click) for the remainder of these comments this thread is about the question of fair play occuring at the school board. obviously it is not, regardless of how you view the topic if you switched the book donations and read through the comments you would have to conclude that bias is evident. we are limited in our ability to understand by our ability to understand RebelAAmerican.Zen[Deist
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nator Member (Idle past 2199 days) Posts: 12961 From: Ann Arbor Joined: |
quote: Exactly. Evolution is happening as we speak. We can run an experiment in a pitri dish with bacteria that demonstrates evolution. There is a LOT of evidence in support of evolution; 150 years worth, conducted by hundreds of thousands of scientists. What you are suggesting is that it's no big deal that we teach ID in schools, which has no scientific evidence to support it. This is just the same as teaching the idea that the Holocaust didn't happen as a valid alternate theory, even though there is no evidence to support it.
quote: What is ID theory? What are it's predictions, how can we test them and have they been tested and shown to survive the tests? What would falsify those predictions? Does the Theory take into account all of the observed evidence? See, if ID wants to be taken seriously as science, it has to answer these extremely basic questions, but it hasn't as of yet. Why should any old idea, regardless of how much support it has, be taught as a valid alternate theory when it is clearly anything but?
quote: That is the fault of the educational system and programs that emphasize test results.
quote: OK, then do you agree that the idea that the Holocaust never happened should be presented as a valid alternative to mainstream WWII history? This message has been edited by schrafinator, 03-26-2005 10:14 AM
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joshua221  Inactive Member |
quote: Humans are corrupt. Isolating religious groups from this competition really doesn't mean much to me, people will always have this, unless they can somehow can seperate from this world of materialistic competition. That is our need.
quote: I respect it as a science, but when applied to humans it becomes very ugly. Man doesn't have to be a part of this mess. This message has been edited by prophex, 03-30-2005 11:36 AM This message has been edited by prophex, 03-30-2005 11:37 AM Social Darwinism enjoyed widespread popularity in some European circles, particularly among ruling elites during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. During this period the global recession of the 1870s encouraged a view of the world which saw societies or nations in competition with one another for survival in a hostile world. This attitude encouraged increasing militarization and the division of the world into colonial spheres of influence. The interpretation of social Darwinism of the time emphasized competition between species and races rather than cooperation.
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joshua221  Inactive Member |
quote: Take ID as an idea, rather than proven science. While you need the evidence, all I want is the idea as an alternative, I believe that this might spark some people to re-think what their teachers tell them with great faith that it is truth. Maybe it wouldn't fit in a classroom dedicated to science, rather a philosophical disscussion after school. Wherever it wouldn't be as bad as Lenny might like to tell you.
quote: High School.
quote: I don't agree with censorship, with evolution and creation, noone really knows, nothing to hide. Social Darwinism enjoyed widespread popularity in some European circles, particularly among ruling elites during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. During this period the global recession of the 1870s encouraged a view of the world which saw societies or nations in competition with one another for survival in a hostile world. This attitude encouraged increasing militarization and the division of the world into colonial spheres of influence. The interpretation of social Darwinism of the time emphasized competition between species and races rather than cooperation.
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Silent H Member (Idle past 5849 days) Posts: 7405 From: satellite of love Joined: |
Humans are corrupt. Isolating religious groups from this competition really doesn't mean much to me, people will always have this, unless they can somehow can seperate from this world of materialistic competition. That is our need. Ahem... thank you for proving what I just said. Evolutionary theory does not say humans are in a state of materialistic competition that cannot be overcome, Xians do. Although I suppose I'd point out there was no materialistic reason the genocides of Moses, and later Xians and Muslims. Neither is there a materialistic competitive reason for the current "culture war" the fundamentalist Xians have begun and continue to propagate. All of that was ideological non materialistic competition. The genocide commited at Canaan was material and ideologically driven.
I respect it as a science, but when applied to humans it becomes very ugly... Man doesn't have to be a part of this mess. I honestly don't know what this means. What does it mean to apply the ToE to humans? Look again at Genesis and the fall and the aftermath of the fall... that's a mess humans need to be a part of? holmes "...what a fool believes he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.."(D. Bros)
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contracycle Inactive Member |
quote: Don't confuse atheism with greed, or theism with nobility. The very existance of communism demonstrates an atheistic criticism of capitalistic profit for its own sake. Fuck the american dream, it was always a lie.
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joshua221  Inactive Member |
quote: Ideologically I see, but material? How? Thanks for giving me the oppurtunity to leech knowledge off of all you guys.
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joshua221  Inactive Member |
quote: quote:-wikipedia Yes, you're right. Had to look it up.
quote: I don't understand, sorry but could you explain this? I'm not seeing where I said something to that effect. Thanks for giving me the oppurtunity to leech knowledge off of all you guys.
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joshua221  Inactive Member |
I emailed your friend Lenny on my newly acquired GMAIL account and this is what he said, I sent him more or less my first reply to you here.
quote: If I wasn't a google convert I probably would check it out, but I just told him evc is better. He warded me off with this reply. Thanks for giving me the oppurtunity to leech knowledge off of all you guys.
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Silent H Member (Idle past 5849 days) Posts: 7405 From: satellite of love Joined: |
Ideologically I see, but material? How? Uhhhhh... You are responding after a break so maybe you forgot what our little back and forth was about. If you follow the thread back up you will find that it was my point that ideology was the driving force of Xian and Jewish "bible-based" genocides. You responded by saying they had a material basis like other genocides, mainly competition for resources/power/survival. My reply was suggesting that in addition to any material motives (which you were suggesting) Canaan most certainly was ideologically driven. holmes "...what a fool believes he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.."(D. Bros)
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