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Over at Conservative Friends, DrewB thinks he has a solution between the Intelligent Design and Evolution debate: teach neither in school. I'm not kidding.
If cell phones are based on old phones, then why are there still land lines?
I will not use DrewB's bone-headedness to chastise conservatives at large. While the ID folks are clearly dyed-in-the-wool conservatives, so are a lot of people with better critical thinking skills than the ID crowd or DrewB.
Pope John Paul II made it very clear that the Catholic Church believes that evolution does not threaten its tenet that God created the human soul. And evolution folks have yet to claim that the soul evolved from jellyfish.
So to genuinely suggest that you shouldn't teach evolution (even though they haven't found the "missing link(s)" yet) is just crazy-talk. My guess is DrewB didn't do that well in school. Although, I'd be happy to correct that statement if DrewB would like to correct me. I'll even post his transcripts if he wants.
So yes, evolution is "just" a theory, but so is gravity, strictly speaking. To paraphrase Jon Stewart, does DrewB think that it's angels pulling his pants down?
However, evolution being taught as fact within the school system is a complete and total farce. Before all the scientists out there have an apoplexy, let me explain....
Then, of course, there’s the ever-popular question “If man descended from apes, why are there still apes?” Evolution still just has too many unanswered questions to be taken as hard scientific fact and taught to our children as the definitive way that the world was created.
If cell phones are based on old phones, then why are there still land lines?
I will not use DrewB's bone-headedness to chastise conservatives at large. While the ID folks are clearly dyed-in-the-wool conservatives, so are a lot of people with better critical thinking skills than the ID crowd or DrewB.
Pope John Paul II made it very clear that the Catholic Church believes that evolution does not threaten its tenet that God created the human soul. And evolution folks have yet to claim that the soul evolved from jellyfish.
So to genuinely suggest that you shouldn't teach evolution (even though they haven't found the "missing link(s)" yet) is just crazy-talk. My guess is DrewB didn't do that well in school. Although, I'd be happy to correct that statement if DrewB would like to correct me. I'll even post his transcripts if he wants.
So yes, evolution is "just" a theory, but so is gravity, strictly speaking. To paraphrase Jon Stewart, does DrewB think that it's angels pulling his pants down?
posted by Jim Higdon at 4:19 AM
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You are more than welcome to come make these accusations on my blog where I've presented the original argument. Or at least leave a trackback so that I know someone is saying something about me.
If evolution were being taught as a theory, then there wouldn't be any problem. However, it's being taught as a hard scientific fact. And the evidence for that simply doesn't hold out no matter how you slice it.
Your comparison with phones doesn't hold water either. Evolution is supposed to be based on "survival of the fittest." If there's no environmental reason for something to change, then it wouldn't change. If there is an environmental reason for the change, then why wouldn't all of them change? Are you honestly going to tell me that evolution happens just out of pure random chance with no rhyme or reason? Because that would make it the only thing in the entire scientific world that worked that way.
Oh, and as to my marks in school (not that it's any of your business) 3.7 GPA all the way through high scool and took Advanced Math, Calculus, Advanced Biology, Advanced Chemistry, etc.
drew,
I did link to your story, so readers could see the whole thing in context.
And I understand my phone comparison was simplistic -- i was being facecious.
And I'm glad you did well in school.
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