Need help with a response on this Creationism LTTE

[NewJeffCT]

Any help? And, if anybody would like to respond, it is anonymous. I'd recommend using towns in CT like Tolland, Stafford, Storrs, Plainfield or Manchester as your starting point. Keep it short if you do respond. Link for replying: http://www.remindernewspapers.com/speakout/speakout.htm

Creation & Evolution

Why not give students the opportunity to make up their own minds based upon the evidence of creation? If evolution is a fact, then there’s nothing for you to worry about, it can defend itself. After all, homosexuality is taught in sex-ed class along with heterosexuality. However, evolution is not science; it is pseudo-science built upon a philosophy, which is, we believe that there is no God and we look for any evidence to prove that position and then call it scientific. Thomas H. Huxley, who was known as “Darwin’s Bulldog,” admitted that he knew what Darwin was teaching wasn’t true, but for him to believe the alternative would mean he was responsible for his wicked way of life to his Creator. There is not one shred of real evidence, material or scientific fact that allows for evolution of any type to have ever happened. Name one “proof” of evolution ever happening. For years, people’s back problems have been treated incorrectly because of a belief in human evolution from lower primates. Now, teach that in school.

http://www.remindernewspapers.com/speakout/speakout.htm

[bertha katzenengel]

1. I don't know if this point is central to the response already brewing, but

plenty of people who believe in the God of the Bible - the one they say created everything - do not believe in the Bible's creation story.

This quote is so bogus, I don't even know where to begin:

"However, evolution is not science; it is pseudo-science built upon a philosophy, which is, we believe that there is no God and we look for any evidence to prove that position and then call it scientific."

Yeah, evolution's a theory. But there's a helluva lot more evidence for it than there is "evidence" creationism.

My stepmother, a biblical archaeologist, found evidence of a fire at a dig at the traditional site of Sodom & Gomorrah. My father once threw this in my sister's face when they were arguing about me - a lesbian. My sister said, "All that means is that there was once a fire there." Duh, Dad. He didn't know what to say. That had NEVER occurred to him. :eyes:

[NewJeffCT]

2. Bush's own White House science advisor

John Marburger, I think, has stated that evolution is the cornerstone of modern biology.

[bertha katzenengel]

4. That WH is so fucked up - no one seems to know what everyone

else is doing. :eyes:

[NewJeffCT]

7. But, Bush is the CEO president

Appointing the best & letting them do their job. (cough cough)

[bertha katzenengel]

8. *cough cough* LOL

:hi:

[NewJeffCT]

9. afternoon kick

hopefully, i can get more help.

thanks

[GreenPartyVoter]

So which creation story ought we to teach? Is there enough time

the day to cover all of them? I say we start with the various stories of Indiginous Americans, since they were here first.

Seriously, creation stories are subjects for world history and anthropology classes not the science lab.

[NewJeffCT]

6. Not just the native Americans

Don't forget creation myths of the Chinese, Japanese, Indians, Islam, Judaism, various cultures in Africa, South America, and see how they relate to cultures that are part of history - the ancient Greeks & Romans, the Mayans, Incans, etc.

That would be an interesting course in history or religion.

[clydefrand]

3. Name one “proof” of evolution ever happening.

If we haven't evolved, why didn't mankind have the knowledge during the days of cave dwellers and before as we have today? How do we account for prehistoric peoples whose skulls have been found that are similar to our own but whose brain capacities were smaller than ours...well some people's anyway! How do we account for all of the links between animals and between plants over the eons? How can we dismiss fossil evidence of the relationships between species?

[immoderate]

5. Darwin was a Christian.

He was not an atheist.

--IMM