Right next to money, religion is the root of all these controversies... more then likely these people may be Christians... they just want a nice little sum of money.
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Yea.. this guy is a Christian, he made that obvious didn't he?
And this he already has money. He's just speaking the truth for once.
I swear, that's like the second greatest thing I've heard all year.
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And..I agree.
Amen brother, Amen. It's time we revolted and started a fuss.
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No kidding. I mean hey, that's what the other side has been doing for so long. What happened to our rights?
Well, no harm in a bit of debate. This is the debate den after all.
*Puts on his devil's advocate suit*
As Senator Daniel Inouye once said, "I have heard so often in the past few weeks eloquent and good men plead for the chance to let the majority rule. That is, they say, the essence of democracy. I disagree, for to me it is equally clear that democracy does not necessarily result from majority rule, but rather from the forged compromise of the majority with the minority."
While his speech was about filibustering (in 1963, not 2005), it applies here as well. This isn't about a 30 second prayer before a football game (though I don't doubt there are people in this country who are against that). It is about the John Scopes monkey trial, antisemitism, xenophobia, racism, and everything related. It's about protection of the minority.
Nobody is telling anyone to cease praying, the government is simply preventing prayer of any creed being forced upon anyone (Intelligent Design in the classroom, anyone?).
As for the examples of Iraq and Israel, religion is written into the constitutions of the countries. As in, Iraq was founded as an Islamic state, while Israel was founded as a Jewish state. America was founded as an agnostic state, in that the government does not acknowledge, support, discourage, or ban any religion, and our Constitution says as much.
As for the country being founded upon Christian ideals, no. The country was founded upon democratic ideals and inalienable human rights (though both have yet to be achieved). Ideals and rights you will find both accepted and denied by Christian countries, Islamic countries, Athiest countries, Jewish countries, etc.
This is by no means a complete rebuttal of the original post, nor a complete arguement on it's own. It is simply an exercize in debate.
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It has been that way. No one is forcing anyone to pray. You dont have to believe Intellingent Design just because you are being taught it. I am taught evoloution in school, and I do not believe it
Well, no harm in a bit of debate. This is the debate den after all.
*Puts on his devil's advocate suit*
As Senator Daniel Inouye once said, "I have heard so often in the past few weeks eloquent and good men plead for the chance to let the majority rule. That is, they say, the essence of democracy. I disagree, for to me it is equally clear that democracy does not necessarily result from majority rule, but rather from the forged compromise of the majority with the minority."
While his speech was about filibustering (in 1963, not 2005), it applies here as well. This isn't about a 30 second prayer before a football game (though I don't doubt there are people in this country who are against that). It is about the John Scopes monkey trial, antisemitism, xenophobia, racism, and everything related. It's about protection of the minority.
Nobody is telling anyone to cease praying, the government is simply preventing prayer of any creed being forced upon anyone (Intelligent Design in the classroom, anyone?).
As for the examples of Iraq and Israel, religion is written into the constitutions of the countries. As in, Iraq was founded as an Islamic state, while Israel was founded as a Jewish state. America was founded as an agnostic state, in that the government does not acknowledge, support, discourage, or ban any religion, and our Constitution says as much.
As for the country being founded upon Christian ideals, no. The country was founded upon democratic ideals and inalienable human rights (though both have yet to be achieved). Ideals and rights you will find both accepted and denied by Christian countries, Islamic countries, Athiest countries, Jewish countries, etc.
This is by no means a complete rebuttal of the original post, nor a complete arguement on it's own. It is simply an exercize in debate.
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It has been that way. No one is forcing anyone to pray. You dont have to believe Intellingent Design just because you are being taught it. I am taught evoloution in school, and I do not believe it
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The Dover, PA Board of Ed was, until it was stopped by a Federal Court. Believing in science and believing in religion are entirely different ideas. One belongs in a science class, the other belongs in a church (or equivalent religious building).
science and religion...?
jus cuz ur a christian or catholic or wutever doeznt mean u cant believe in science...
evolution iz just a scientific theory believed by alotta scientistz. that dont mean that evolution iz science itself.
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I said I do not beleive the theory of evoloution. Evoloution is life science, I think. That doesnt mean I do noit belvie in all of Life Science. I just dont believe I am an Ape descendant(sp?)
science and religion...?
jus cuz ur a christian or catholic or wutever doeznt mean u cant believe in science...
evolution iz just a scientific theory believed by alotta scientistz. that dont mean that evolution iz science itself.
oh, and that thing about creation belonging in churchez and evolution in classroomz...thatz ur opinion. evolution and creation and both beliefz...evolution iz a theory, not a law. so itz pretty biased to just be showing one side.
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I think you misunderstood what I said. Intelligent Design isn't science. Evolution isn't religion. That doesn't mean religion and science are mutually exclusive, or that evolution and science or Intelligent Design and religion are mutually inclusive.
As for your comment that teaching only evolution is biased, if someone can propose a reasonable alternate theory, I have no problem with it being taught alongside it. Intelligent Design isn't a reasonable theory, its a joke.
science and religion...?
jus cuz ur a christian or catholic or wutever doeznt mean u cant believe in science...
evolution iz just a scientific theory believed by alotta scientistz. that dont mean that evolution iz science itself.
oh, and that thing about creation belonging in churchez and evolution in classroomz...thatz ur opinion. evolution and creation and both beliefz...evolution iz a theory, not a law. so itz pretty biased to just be showing one side.
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I think you misunderstood what I said. Intelligent Design isn't science. Evolution isn't religion. That doesn't mean religion and science are mutually exclusive, or that evolution and science or Intelligent Design and religion are mutually inclusive.
As for your comment that teaching only evolution is biased, if someone can propose a reasonable alternate theory, I have no problem with it being taught alongside it. Intelligent Design isn't a reasonable theory, its a joke.
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a joke iz it?
"Not one change of species into another is on record...we cannot prove that a single species has been changed." - Charles Darwin, My Life and Letters
"If it could be domonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down." - Charles Darwin, The Origin of The Species
One of evolution's weak points is that it does not have any recognizable way in which conscious life could have emerged." - Sir John Eccles, Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology
"For twenty years I lied to prove that the universe had a materialistic base, but every experiment failed. I had to conclude that it had a spiritualistic base." - Dr. Bernard Covell, Astrophysicist
There are only two possibilities as to how life arose. One is spontaneous generation arising to evolution; the other is a supernatural creative act of God. There is no third possibiliy. Spontaneous generation, that life arose from non-living matter was scientifically disproved 120 years ago by Louis Pasteur and others. That leaves us with the only possible conclusion that life arose as a supernatural creative act of God. I will not accept this philisophically because I do not want to believe in God. Therefore, I choose to believe in what I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation arising to evolution." - Dr. George Wald, Professor Emeritus of Biology at Harvard University, Nobel Prize Winner Physiology
"Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe it only because the only alternative is special creation which is unthinkable." - Arthur Keith
the size, position and angle of the earth iz a phenomenon to see. a few degreez closer to the sun we'd disintegrate, a few degreez furter we'd freeze. the axis of the earth is tilted at a perfect 23 degree angle and itz no mistake that it iz. this allowz equal global distribution to the rayz of the sun making it possible for the food chain to exist. or take for example the combination of nitrogen and oxygen in the atmosphere we breathe every day. it just happenz to be the exact mix that life needs to prosper, it doesn't happen on any other planet that in our entire system that way. also, the moon controlz the tides, itz the thing that cleanz the oceanz. even wavez don't crash the shorez for nuthin. the tidez drag impuritiez from the depthz of the sea, it's naturez constant recycling chain. and it straight bogglez the mind to think that the starz will rotate with such exact precision that itz true. that the atomic clock with an error factor of less than three secondz per millenium is set by the way they move. u think creation'z so crazy...? theze are just sum examplez...i'd love to hear hear how it all happened by sum freak accidental occurance.
no disrespect, but dont come to me, calling my belief a joke.
the bottom line iz...it takez faith to believe in either one. u believe in evolution, thatz your perogitive...but i aint gonna sit there and take my belief being called a joke from sumone who almighty belief in evolution couldnt even be sustained by itz own creator, who denounced it ever being possible. look i aint gonna argue, all im sayin iz, i dont appreciate it being called a joke.
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Read my post above. The people during his time period wouldn't accept anything besides what had been force-fed to them.
Darwin grew up believing in the Bible.
the bottom line iz...it takez faith to believe in either one. u believe in evolution, thatz your perogitive...but i aint gonna sit there and take my belief being called a joke from sumone who almighty belief in evolution couldnt even be sustained by itz own creator, who denounced it ever being possible. look i aint gonna argue, all im sayin iz, i dont appreciate it being called a joke.
and kevin, darwin denounced it because he realized it couldnt work.
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Creator? No. Darwin didn't create evolution. He discovered and studied it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Hope (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Hope)
Read that.
and if you don't trust Wikpedia, there's the sources at the bottom.
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i never said darwin reverted back to christianity...i said that he made statementz in hiz own first-person accountz, shooting down hiz own theory.
the bottom line iz...it takez faith to believe in either one. u believe in evolution, thatz your perogitive...but i aint gonna sit there and take my belief being called a joke from sumone who almighty belief in evolution couldnt even be sustained by itz own creator, who denounced it ever being possible. look i aint gonna argue, all im sayin iz, i dont appreciate it being called a joke.
and kevin, darwin denounced it because he realized it couldnt work.
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Creator? No. Darwin didn't create evolution. He discovered and studied it.
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he waz the creator or "discoverer" if u wanna call it, of the theory.
but this iz stupid, creation and evolution iznt wut this topic iz even about...so letz get off it.