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Author Topic:   Should Evolution and Creation be Taught in School?
Coragyps
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Message 130 of 308 (312118)
05-15-2006 5:59 PM
Reply to: Message 121 by simple
05-15-2006 2:12 PM


Re: What's to teach ?
No science contradicts my beliefs.
Have I not been paying attention? Do you believe that our planet is about 4.55 billion years old, that life arose here about 3.5 billion years ago, and that modern humans arose from not-quite-modern humans maybe 150,000 years ago?

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Coragyps
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Message 189 of 308 (313386)
05-18-2006 11:14 PM
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05-18-2006 11:02 PM


Re: Another confused creationist?
In some places a majority of a country inherited Christian heritage, which was paid for in blood by their forefathers.
Well, somebody's forefathers. In Australia and the Americas, most of the blood was that of the non-Christian natives.

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Coragyps
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Message 192 of 308 (313392)
05-18-2006 11:20 PM
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05-18-2006 11:15 PM


Re: Another confused creationist?
No pang. I wasn't even born until a bit after World War II, so I had nothing to do with it either. Or the Mexican War.
It's nice that you had nice ancestors, though.

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Coragyps
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Message 196 of 308 (313399)
05-18-2006 11:33 PM
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05-18-2006 11:26 PM


Re: Another confused creationist?
Don't try to get in a pissing contest with me about swell ancestors - I've got continuous China missionaries back to 1841 in one line, and to about 1900 in two more. But I didn't pick them.
And you and I each have sixteen great-great-great-grandfathers. I'm sure that every one was a sterling citizen in your case, but I have a doubt or two about that fourteenth one of mine.

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Coragyps
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Message 235 of 308 (319692)
06-09-2006 8:13 PM
Reply to: Message 234 by anglagard
06-09-2006 7:52 PM


Re: creationism in a science class
Here fifty miles from Anglagard we had one of my daughter's classmates - in the top 10% of the graduating class - expressing doubt that dinosaurs ever existed at all. Her preacher had said they probably were fictional. And the teacher of the college-prep biology class said "You can read these next three chapters {on evolution} if you want, but they won't be on the test." Campbell's textbook, at that.
Bizarroworld.

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