If only that were true. That’s why a prominent professor of Biology goes on TV to rail against a mythical being, and it’s all based on science. I’ll bet a lot of people don’t ignore him because he is a professor after all.
If your child has been brought up to have an open and enquiring mind, they should be able to make decisions and choices for themselves and you should respect the choices they make. Even if they are different from your own. People are fee to believe what they choose to believe
Ah, I see, you found one book where there was nothing opposing Catholic teaching, one professor who wasn’t full of himself. Very good. How about the fifty or hundred others that are or will be required reading? How about all of your instructors? You see Jimmy I know that generally speaking, your little tale just isn’t true. We may not be at the university now but we have been there you see. Linus2nd
So you have caved to the Dictatorship of Relativism. Congratulations. But when your child comes home an atheist or worse, perhaps you will feel differently. Linus2nd
For Catholics, there is only one way to raise a child. It is our duty. And I know grown adults that have less sense than 10 year olds.
You obviously didn’t read the article. A science web site was using religious statements to sell a product with taxpayer money. For them, the end justifies the means, even if it means using religion to sell what they call science.
Because I read the title of the thread!
“By coupling **undirected, purposeless **variation to the **blind, uncaring **process of natural selection, Darwin made theological or spiritual explanations of the life processes superfluous.”
Ed,
Ignore the obvious if you like. The more I see threads like this, the more I see the litmus test pushed in my face: “do you accept?” Because if I don’t accept, I’m accused of hysteria, crippling my kids and dooming them to a life of “do you want fries with that”? Because, I’ve been told that once my kids enter the sacred public school and accept the belief system there, they will reject what I’ve taught them.
Well that’s a bit hypocritical. His personal experience in college must logically be based on only one situation and cannot apply because it is only one professor out of many, but YOUR college experience is perfectly applicable despite you having the same degree of limited personal experiences with the situation?
You’ve got it completely backwards. Because our kids will be taught evolution and global warming and such and how there is no conflict between science and faith, they will have no problem retaining their faith. It is the children of those who teach them evolution and such is a lie that, when they go off to college and discover first hand the insurmountable evidence for it all, will be forced to doubt everything else, including their faith, that their parents taught them when they were younger. It happens all the time, especially among evangelicals.
As usual Ed, you’re reading way, WAY too much into it. Nothing about that says God doesn’t exist or that God can’t be behind it all. Scientifically speaking (which is, naturally), evolution is undirected and purposeless. God has a purpose for it, but since God is supernatural, his purpose has no impact on whether or not evolution is scientifically (read: NATURALLY) unguided.
Ed, these quotes are pretty enlightening / interesting to me. But they may be taken out of context.
Considering that some 90% of religious kids stop going to church when they ship off to college, it is anything but a bunch of baloney. It’s a very serious matter and you’ll forgive us if we don’t take is as lightly nor treat it as callously as you do.
What a small world! I went into a fast food joint and was served by a nervous, crippled kid who said “Do you want fries with that?”. That wasn’t your kid, was it?
Co-ed dorms don’t necessarily lead to sex. It will happen either way. It has more to do with the people than the living spaces
What I still want to know is if the emphases were actually in the original. EVERY textbook I’ve ever used has only used emphases to indicate new vocab words
Naturally unguided? That makes no sense at all. A series of fortuitous accidents? That’s what too many believe today.
Nothing has been resolved. There is nowhere to move on to.
It makes perfect sense. Your failure to understand does not equate to nonsense.
It’s actually quite reproducible and has been many many times, but even if it couldn’t be, it doesn’t matter. “Reproducible” in a scientific context does not mean to actually literally make it happen again.