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2005-08-21 19:31 | User Profile
[FONT=Arial][SIZE=5]Teaching Intelligent Design OK With Australian Education Minister[/SIZE]
[B]By Patrick Goodenough CNSNews.com International Editor
August 12, 2005[/B]
(CNSNews.com) - The debate over whether "intelligent design" should be taught in schools has taken hold in Australia, where the country's education minister said students should be exposed to the theory.
Brendan Nelson said he would be "quite concerned" if intelligent design were to replace "teaching the origins of mankind in a scientific sense."
However, if parents wished their children to be taught about the theory, "I think that's fine," he told the National Press Club in Canberra. [B] [I]"As far as I'm concerned, students can be taught and should be taught the basic science in terms of the evolution of man, but if schools also want to present students with intelligent design, I don't have any difficulty with that. It's about choice, reasonable choice."[/I][/B]
Nelson's comments come several days after President Bush said intelligent design should be taught alongside Darwin's theory of evolution in American schools, "so people can understand what the debate is about."
The theory argues that the complexity of nature cannot be explained by random natural processes, but points to the existence of an unseen directing hand.
Although proponents present it as a scientific, not religious, approach, critics deride it as creationism -- the literal interpretation of the biblical book of Genesis -- in disguise.
In Australia, Campus Crusade for Christ is promoting a DVD on the theory, and Nelson confirmed he had watched the presentation, Unlocking the Mystery of Life.
Robert Marshall, a senior lecturer in anatomy at the University of Melbourne, said in an op-ed article published Friday that Intelligent Design proponents, like creationists, "still introduce theology into the saga of life."
John G. West of the Discovery Institute, a Christian thinktank that campaigns for the teaching of Intelligent Design, says a major misunderstanding of the theory is that it is based on religion rather than science.
[B][I]"While intelligent design may have religious implications (just like Darwin's theory), it does not start from religious premises," [/I] he wrote this week.[/B][/FONT]
2005-08-21 22:52 | User Profile
It belongs in an intro to philosophy textbook under "teleological argument." Of course, it could be taught in schools and followed by myriad criticisms. The thing is that these are philosophical because this theory is not falsifiable by empirical means.
2005-08-21 22:56 | User Profile
40% of the topics in "Science and Technology" are of the know-nothing "intelligent" design variety.
2005-08-22 04:19 | User Profile
The one 'stickied' thread here is called, so help me, "Good Creation Truth vs. Evil Evolution Untruth". Should come with an artist's rendition of Noah calling Shem on his T-Mobile while riding on the back of a tyrannosaurus as it boards the Ark.
2005-08-22 05:12 | User Profile
[url]http://www.landoverbaptist.org/news0605/flyingdinos.html[/url]
[B]New Evidence Suggests Noah's Sons Rode Flying Dinosaurs[/B] CREATION SCIENCE BREAKING NEWS
For years, Creation Scientists have disputed how Noah was able to quickly collect millions of indigenous animals from remote, inaccessible regions of the world for a 40-day ride in his ark. New evidence from an archeological find in China supports the long held Christian belief that Noah's sons rode giant flying dinosaurs to transport duck billed platypuses from Australia, and penguins and polar bears from the Antarctic, to name a few. "Those must have been some mighty big flying dinosaurs," says Pastor Deacon Fred. "Imagine the look on Noah's face when his sons flew in for a landing with a pair of Hippos strapped to the back of one of them things! Glory to God!"
"The Lord is just amazing," says Creation Scientist, Dr. Jonathan Edwards. "Whenever Atheist scientists make a new find, they think it will hack away at our Christian beliefs. They must get pretty peeved at how sneaky our Lord is, because whenever they unearth something, it only provides more support for the historical accuracy of the Holy Bible And these flying dinosaurs they keep finding are no exception!"
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Dr. Edwards explains that it would have been impossible for Noah's sons to travel to the four corners of the earth to areas that were previously inaccessible on foot. "Noah and his sons had to collect two of every single creature on the face of the planet," he says. "We're talking about a big haul here. At first we just attributed it to what Creation Scientists call, the Holy Finger Snapping Theory. That's where God snaps his fingers and just makes it so." Edwards points out that Creation Scientists are still unanimous in attributing the fact that Noah was able to load 100 million plus animals onto a 450 foot ark "in the selfsame day" (Genesis 7:13-14) to the Finger Snapping Theory. In the case of how the animals were collected from remote regions of the world in the first place however, recent archeological finds indicate that Noah's sons were able to tame giant flying dinosaurs and in turn, load them up with food supplies and hitch rides for long trips around the world to China, South America, Australia, Greenland, and the North Pole.
Creation Scientists estimate that since the Earth is only ten-thousand years old, human beings were living among dinosaurs and had plenty of time to tame them. "I would have loved to have been around to see Cain and Abel rolling around in the grass outside the Garden of Eden playing with the pet raptors their father, Adam, gave them for their birthdays," says Pastor Deacon Fred. "What a glorious time that must have been!"
Through tithing donations from Landover Baptist Church members, the Center for Creation Research was able to secure several fossilized remains of flying dinosaurs valued at over $14 million. The remains will be studied exhaustively for evidence of the leather harnessing used to secure Noah's sons for their long transcontinental journeys.
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