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BurtWorm

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Tue May-17-05 09:04 AM
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The Evolution of Creationism

Ha ha! Good one NY Times Editorial Page!

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/17/opinion/17tues2.html?pagewanted=print

The latest struggle over the teaching of evolution in the public schools of Kansas provides striking evidence that evolution is occurring right before our eyes. Every time the critics of Darwinism lose a battle over reshaping the teaching of biology, they evolve into a new form, armed with arguments that sound progressively more benign, while remaining as dangerous as ever.

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tanyev

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Tue May-17-05 09:10 AM
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1. Pity they didn't mention that Jonathan Wells,

Intelligent Design proponent, is a Moonie.

One of the most prominent advocates of Intelligent Design Creationism is Jonathan Wells, author of Icons of Evolution. He has a PhD in molecular biology from Berkeley. Let me give you a textbook example of saying one thing to the public and another to one's fellow travelers. In the introduction to Icons of Evolution, Wells wrote:

During my years as a physical science undergraduate and biology graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, I believed almost everything I read in my textbooks. I knew that the books contained a few misprints and minor factual errors, and I was skeptical of philosophical claims that went beyond the evidence, but I thought that most of what I was being taught was substantially true.

He claims this quite often, that he was an evolutionist all through grad school, but eventually he was convinced solely by the biological evidence that evolution was false. Now, what does he say to his fellow travelers? Quite the contrary:

Father's words, my studies, and my prayers convinced me that I should devote my life to destroying Darwinism, just as many of my fellow Unificationists had already devoted their lives to destroying Marxism. When Father chose me (along with about a dozen other seminary graduates) to enter a Ph.D. program in 1978, I welcomed the opportunity to prepare myself for battle.
http://www.stcynic.com/blog/archives/2004/07/rev_moon_and_in.php

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KlatooBNikto

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Tue May-17-05 09:12 AM
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2. I can foresee the following mutations.

1.Intelligent Evolution ( not the random, Godless, Evolution of unbelievers).

2. The sudden emergence of Intelligence about 6000 years ago, as the Bible says, after millennia of dumb creatures walking the earth.

3. The human brain as the best example of Intelligent Design, the rest of our bodies being creatures of evolution.

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ComerPerro

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Tue May-17-05 09:15 AM
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3. Intelligent Evolution is the next step, yes

I definately agree.

They are almost reaching for it now.

Its as though they say, "Well, teach evolution, but make sure you are telling kids that God did it, not science"

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bowens43

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Tue May-17-05 10:44 AM
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4. Unable to convince the anyone that ID is science,

these ignorant theo-cons are attempting to change the definition of science.

These people and those like them are the single greatest threat that we as a nation face. These people will not only dumb us down, they will eventually try to replace the Constitution with their version of Biblical Law.

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