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roxrkool
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Message 1 of 4 (231347)
08-09-2005 12:00 PM


An Op-Ed piece in USAToday by Utah State Sen. D. Chris Buttars, R-West Jordan:
The campaign to eliminate God from the public forum has been going on for decades, having accelerated greatly since the Supreme Court's ill-advised decision in 1963 to eliminate prayer from public schools. And I believe those fighting against the teaching of intelligent design in schools have an ulterior motive to eliminate references to God from the entire public forum.
The argument over classroom discussion of evolution vs. divine design is just the latest attack on everything that would mention a belief in God. If you talk against Darwinian evolution in the classroom, you immediately incur the rage of those who don't want God discussed in any way, shape or form.
These vehement critics claim that there are mountains of scientific proof that man evolved from some lower species also related to apes. But in this tremendous effort to support Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, in all these "mountains of information," there has not been any scientific fossil evidence linking apes to man.
The trouble with the "missing link" is that it is still missing! In fact, the whole fossil chain that could link apes to man is also missing! The theory of evolution, which states that man evolved from some other species, has more holes in it than a crocheted bathtub.
I realize that is a dramatic statement, so to be clear, let me restate: There is zero scientific fossil evidence that demonstrates organic evolutionary linkage between primates and man.
Darwin's famous The Origin of Species concludes that over eons of time, and through countless mutations, man evolved from an ape-like ancestor. It takes an enormous leap of faith (oh my, there's one of those terrible religious words!) to conclude that man evolved from ape without any empirical fossil evidence.
Teaching evolution is really about the determined drive by activists to eliminate any reference to an intelligent power in the universe. That said, could it be that the reason they can't find the missing link is that human evolution didn't happen at all?
The best way to defeat evolution is to accuse it's proponents of trying to remove god from the "public forum." Oh, and stating complete falsehoods doesn't hurt either.
This message has been edited by roxrkool, 08-09-2005 12:01 PM

roxrkool
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Message 2 of 4 (231686)
08-10-2005 12:20 AM


You know, I was wondering if it would be feasible to just have a place to post Evo/Creo news articles. If people want to discuss them, okay; if not, that's okay, too.
Crap idea?

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Message 3 of 4 (250011)
10-08-2005 9:04 AM
Reply to: Message 2 by roxrkool
08-10-2005 12:20 AM


Not a crap idea!
And since this is one of the posts that actually led to the creation of the "In the News" forum... I felt I should actually dig it out and FINALLY, after ... (calculating) two months, to post it up.
Rox, you have a place to post your articles now. Have a blast.

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10-08-2005 9:05 AM


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