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NoNukes
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Message 727 of 2073 (743329)
11-29-2014 8:52 PM
Reply to: Message 719 by Colbard
11-29-2014 8:12 AM


Re: Evidence by transformation
Here is why -
There is a state of mind which denies reality by its own system of beliefs, and claims to have evidence for its own system, while calling anything outside of it delusional.
You don't defend your propositions or even offer evidence for them because you have none. You've pretty much acknowledged that already, but now you try to blame your failure to others.
even though the evidences are all around.
You are well past put up time, bro. Cite the evidence.

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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. Galileo Galilei
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass

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NoNukes
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Message 752 of 2073 (743995)
12-07-2014 5:21 AM
Reply to: Message 745 by Colbard
12-07-2014 4:16 AM


Re: Nonsense is the word
I gave the story of the coin dating as a trigger to help the 'scientists' blow their steam off, giving them an opportunity to run me over with a bulldozer full of regular words.
There is no need to manufacturer crap in order to generate criticism. The normal stuff you post already draws that stuff.
When are you going to get around to posting evidence based discussion instead of just spewing nonsense? All I see you doing right now is preaching and mocking the discussion/criticism you get without responding to it. Then you have the gall to cast aspersions when people tell you that your 'contribution' is not welcomed.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. Galileo Galilei
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass

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NoNukes
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Message 868 of 2073 (744480)
12-11-2014 1:33 PM
Reply to: Message 841 by Colbard
12-11-2014 7:04 AM


Re: To the last few replies
Colbard writes:
There was no communication, just slapping around whatever I said, so how would anyone respond? Most people just leave.
In your opinion, what would have been a proper response to your coin story, or to your explanation of fossil sorting? Even you know that the coin story is no rational reason not to accept carbon dating. We also know that hydraulic sorting is insufficient to explain the order of fossils.
If you want some idea of yours to receive some serious consideration, your going to have to do better than repeat discredited ideas that we've heard before.
Colbard writes:
Most people just leave.
...
Yes, it is a troll thing, but you weren't going to let creationism even start were you?
You've come across as a weak whiner from nearly the start of your participation here. You stumbled upon a Evolution vs Creationist debate forum where non acceptance to your ideas should have been expected. But it turns out that your method of debate is to spout mysticism and that you find challenges uncomfortable. Even when we discussed things on your terms you couldn't find evidence or Biblical support for what you were saying. Why are you even on a debate site? You have nothing to offer, and you don't like the easily anticipated response to nonsense.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. Galileo Galilei
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass

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NoNukes
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Message 869 of 2073 (744481)
12-11-2014 1:51 PM
Reply to: Message 840 by Colbard
12-11-2014 6:45 AM


Re: back to the coin again -- let's put this story to bed.
The earth radiates alpha and beta particles as if it has a surplus, could this process accelerate the decay rate while the object is buried? A rate which is far slower in lab conditions?
No. Alpha and beta particles have no effect on decay rates. Where do you get the idea that "the earth radiates alpha and beta particles as if it has a surplus?". The earth contains radioactive materials some of which decay by alpha and beta decay.
Neutrons could affect the percentage of C-14 in a sample, and sometimes we do find that to have occurred. But the result is to make samples seem to new and not too old.
I assumed it was an error, not because I understood carbon dating, but because I did not believe the earth was that old, let alone the coin. I thought carbon dating was somehow wrong and did not know how.
I can understand that. Quite frankly, what you are describing is the probably pretty common among Creationists. You don't have to understand evolution, cosmology, or carbon dating in any detail to reject them. Because there is no question that those things are inconsistent with your interpretation of Genesis.
I still assume it is wrong because I have studied the global flood as a hobby, and it adds up fine.
You probably won't want to get into a debate about this. Your ideas are going to be challenged and evidence is going to be asked for.
Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. Galileo Galilei
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass

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NoNukes
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Message 882 of 2073 (744699)
12-14-2014 8:42 PM
Reply to: Message 880 by Colbard
12-14-2014 6:13 PM


Re: A Q of authority
At the same time, I could have an interpretation of scripture which it does not say, and such is the case of the majority of creationists who do not understand the fundamentals of creation. In which case I would have to be shown from scripture where I am wrong.
Really? You are seriously insisting that as long as you are interpreting scripture, the only way to show that you've erred is by citing more scripture?

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. Galileo Galilei
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass

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NoNukes
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Message 902 of 2073 (745528)
12-23-2014 8:10 PM
Reply to: Message 901 by Rodnas
12-23-2014 7:59 PM


Re: A Q of authority
t's not a tautology. Obviously, in order for life to evolve as it did the original genome had to contain all the components for it but it also had to have the program to make it happen.
"had to contain all the components"?
Since there are other possible working models, such as mutations that can provide novel components, you are going to have to do more to establish that your is the only possibility.
I know you are convinced, but aren't you trying to convince others? What is your argument against mutation providing the novel components?

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. Galileo Galilei
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass

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NoNukes
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Message 905 of 2073 (745533)
12-23-2014 8:58 PM
Reply to: Message 903 by Rodnas
12-23-2014 8:25 PM


Re: A Q of authority
BTW, I am not trying to convince anyone here, only providing the latest scientific information that supports the non-Darwinian view
The problem is that you are not providing "information that supports" any view. You are just providing the view. If there is some supporting information, by which I mean evidence, please provide a pointer to that. I'd like to read it.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. Galileo Galilei
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass

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NoNukes
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Message 914 of 2073 (745642)
12-25-2014 12:10 PM
Reply to: Message 913 by dwise1
12-25-2014 11:54 AM


Re: A Q of authority
If that is not your intention, then your actual intentions can be far better served by proposing a new topic in which your Urantian beliefs can be discussed.
A whole topic devoted to the purpose of inviting us to a urantia web page? No thanks. Rodnas has already told us that he has no intention of persuading. His purpose is more akin to proselytizing.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. Galileo Galilei
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass

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NoNukes
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Message 930 of 2073 (745676)
12-25-2014 9:13 PM
Reply to: Message 929 by RAZD
12-25-2014 9:02 PM


Re: defending a thesis
That's twice you've dodged the questions.
Isn't Rodnas permanently banned?

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. Galileo Galilei
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass

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NoNukes
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Message 934 of 2073 (746200)
01-04-2015 1:33 PM
Reply to: Message 931 by RAZD
12-25-2014 9:19 PM


Re: defending a thesis
1 -- he can still read as a lurker.
2 -- the answers are for all lurkers and followers, not just the poster.
3 -- many suspensions have been lifted.
All true of course.
It's also true that Rodnas spent his time here yanking chains and not responding to the discussion. He was apparently so successful at it that people are still following up a week after he left here.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. Galileo Galilei
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass

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NoNukes
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Message 939 of 2073 (746958)
01-11-2015 1:01 AM
Reply to: Message 937 by Rodnas
01-10-2015 8:39 PM


Re: A Q of authority
Whatever the case, would there be a problem in teaching this science in schools?
A problem teaching what science?
Science is not just whatever one or more biologists says. Instead it is what one or more scientists can back up or at least demonstrate that he is in the process of backing it up. You have yet to show us that anything you say here rises to the level of hypothesis, let alone theory.
So that's the problem teaching your ID-lite in school. It is not science.

Je Suis Charlie
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass

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NoNukes
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Message 982 of 2073 (808697)
05-12-2017 9:39 AM
Reply to: Message 980 by Taq
05-11-2017 1:46 PM


Re: Partial truths, partial lies, mostly GIGO
What I extracted is that Davidjay is totally against the use of the scientific method.
In fact, Davidjay (and others here) are totally against science. Science is not just a bunch of facts that happen by hook or crook to be true. Science is the uncovery of truth using the scientific method. If things like Creationism or Intelligent Design were to be taught in science class, the purpose of doing so would be to make contrasts with science.
What Davidjay would instead allow to be taught in science are "Flash Facts" (anybody know what those are) that do not challenge the Bible in any way along with the numerology and "Creation Science" he finds to be correct. His inability to state what the scientific method is gives away the game. He surely does not care about why that is taught.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. Thomas Jefferson
Seems to me if its clear that certain things that require ancient dates couldn't possibly be true, we are on our way to throwing out all those ancient dates on the basis of the actual evidence. -- Faith
Some of us are worried about just how much damage he will do in his last couple of weeks as president, to make it easier for the NY Times and Washington post to try to destroy Trump's presidency. -- marc9000

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NoNukes
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Message 983 of 2073 (808702)
05-12-2017 9:45 AM
Reply to: Message 981 by Chiroptera
05-12-2017 8:48 AM


Re: Got ya again .. Think bat think
The reader can judge for herself what I was trying to say.
You said that bats and humans possibly branched off from some common ancestor, which any fool would know would not have been a bat or a human, and that the ancestor was likely not a close one.
Davidjay likely finds the entire prospect too offensive to comprehend or two respond to. His remarks are similar to the old complaints from fundamentalists that "my grandpa wasn't no monkey". Yeah, well nobody said that either.
Beyond that, it appears that his elevator does not go to the top floor. I feel sorry for the dude.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846)
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. Thomas Jefferson
Seems to me if its clear that certain things that require ancient dates couldn't possibly be true, we are on our way to throwing out all those ancient dates on the basis of the actual evidence. -- Faith
Some of us are worried about just how much damage he will do in his last couple of weeks as president, to make it easier for the NY Times and Washington post to try to destroy Trump's presidency. -- marc9000

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