Evolution is NOT science: A challenge

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There is evidence that disease is caused by demons and evil spirits, and I have seen peopl cured by praying.
So why couldn't they teach that in schools.
They don't have to say its true, just a theory.

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Where is the double blind study that shows this? How did they control for the placebo effect? Did they also pray to Zeus to see if a false god would also cure the sick? Can I repeat the experiments myself? Is the study published anywhere so that I can replicate their methodology? If the study does not fit these criteria then it is not scientific. What you have is anecdotal evidence which is inherently unreliable as has beens shown by numerous scientific investigations.

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If I showed you a documneted miralce, would you say that is a theory with the intervention of God?

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Depends on how the miracle was documented. You must also show that such miraculous recoveries are never associated with non-believers or with those who pray to other gods (if you are stating that only one god exists). Also, the intervention must be repeatable by the same methodology. As is seen in many drug studies, people are miraculously cured by sugar pills all of the time.

Oh..And which one has been docuemetned in a non-biased manner.I have seen many frauds that were docuemetned as "miracles".I have not seen any objective evidecne that any of the 'miracles' in the
bible actually happened.I have seen objective evidence that shows species change over time.

Well then..What evidence do you have that the miracles that were written about in the bible actually happened?

Actually, Evolution was pretty much a conclusion long before Darwin came along. There was simply way too much evidence for anyone to take the Biblical account seriously for several centuries at least. What Darwin did was show a method, a mechanisim that helped explain how Evolution worked. Nothing. But what does that have to do with the TOE? Fine. Start a thread and post some of the evidence. We'd love to discuss it.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

Can you point us to the evidence for that?

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

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Contracycle said that, not me! I never said you were lesbian.

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Just a joke, hon.

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And most lesbians I've seen are extremely hot.

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LOL!There are hot ones and less hot ones.I happen to work with a lot of gay men and women in a very gay-friendly town, and I saw one woman's friend, and she looked just like a young Ralph Macchio.IOW, she looked an awful lot like a 14 year old boy wearing reflective shades, a bandana around her head and a white T-shirt with the sleeves rolled up.

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And I never said you were ugly. I just think you look goofy riding that horse in your avatar(assuming that's you).

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Goofy?How am I goofy?(I'm not being defensive, I'm just curious what you find goofy about the picture. FYI, my position is almost textbook-perfect, if I do say so myself.)

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Just because I like taunting feminists doesn't mean I'm a shovenistic barbarian.

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That's "chauvinistic".

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What kind of lesbian are you, well lets see, as far as I know, you are the kind of lesbian that hates men like me and B2P.
So you are a hating lesbian.

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OK, I'll clue you in.I'm not a lesbian, riverrat.I've been happily married for almost 12 years now to a wonderful man who is also a member of this forum (Zhimbo), though he doen't post much these days because he is getting ready to defend his PhD in Cognitive Science this spring.

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If it is not proven, you cannot say that it happened.

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Nothing is science is proven.Do you disbelieve all of science now?

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That is truth.
People who belive in it, are believing in something that isn't proven, I call it faith, so does the dictionary.

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I asked you a specific question that required a simple, yes or no answer.Please stop avoiding the question.I will repeat it below:

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Why is it you don't answer my question?
Are you are looking to justify what you believe in because its a good chance that germs cause desease?

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If I told you soap cleans dishes, and there is a theory behind it, but its not proven, does that make all science valid as truth?

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Unresponsive.I asked you very specific questions that require only a yes or no answer.Please stop avoiding answering these very simple questions:Is it true that germs cause disease? Yes or no?
Is it true that matter is made up of atoms? Yes or no?Are they true "enough" for us to teach them as true in science class? Yes or no?

Charles,Just out of curiosity what are the other meanings of giggle in the UK besides a kind of laugh, or laughing at? One usage in the US would be in the form of "it's a giggle" meaning lightweight fun.That's about all I can think of.Thanks,
lfen

They also don't have to teach it as science, or teach it as Christian science.
The point is, that it happens all the time, yet it is ignored, and not taught in schools.
Mostly because man cannot explain it, and the people who are trying to explain it, don't believe in nit, so they give it a bad rep.

What does other Gods have to do with it?
Who am I to judge who those other Gods are. They might just be all the same God.
Maybe God set up life that way so that everyone would have a chance to come to Christ.
I don't know.But I see your point.

When you leave your house tonight and bad luck sets in and you get run over by a car, and your standing at the pearly gates in front of God's judgement, what are you going to tell him?Just curious.

The same evidence I have that proves you wrote in this forum.