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Author Topic:   How about teaching evolution at Sunday school?
Tranquility Base
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Message 3 of 106 (22288)
11-11-2002 6:27 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Peter
11-11-2002 8:26 AM


Churches are non-government instituions and so can decide what they teach themselves. Government sciecne educational organizitons should teach distinct alternatives that are known to explain phenomena.

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Tranquility Base
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Message 5 of 106 (22388)
11-12-2002 5:56 PM
Reply to: Message 4 by ddg
11-12-2002 12:30 AM


OK ddg
What's non-scientific about showing that:
1. All known examples of observed evolution, including that on rapid generational entities such as viruses and bacteria, do not demonstrate anything other than allelic variaiton or loss of function.
2. Life today and the fossil record show very few transtional forms.
3. Genomes are showing us that gene families, as well as anatomies, are mosaically spread throughout life.
These are all consistent with a created origin of 'kinds' with evolutionary diversifcation within those kinds. The data puts severe constraints on both how evoltuion or creation occurred but proves or disproves neither of them.
There is absolutely nothing unscientific about the above except that you despise the connotations it carries. We actually love science as much as you do - we just want to pont out that there are multiple ways of interpreting the same observations.
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