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I was watching CNN report on W’s speech. Attorney ...

2006-05-16T16:50:00.000-07:00

I was watching CNN report on W’s speech. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales being interviewed by Wolf Blitzer when Wolf asked Mr. Gonzales if his parents were here legally from Mexico, he stammered out that he had talked to his parents about that recently but we just don’t know. Huh? Such disingenuous Bulls#%t. isn’t this the guy they were looking to put on the Supreme Court?? I swear to God these conservatives have absolutely no shame. I pray to Gop i mean God that come november there is a bloodbath and we take back our government from these rich elite weasles and start looking out for the middle class.

I agree that evolution is intellectually bankrupt ...

2006-02-19T17:07:00.000-08:00

I agree that evolution is intellectually bankrupt and it is not even a theory. I hope some of you will consider entering a post into the Darwin is Dead Carnival =
http://blogcarnival.com/bc/submit_222.html

It is like the idea of the big lie, the more it is repeated it eventually gets to the point it is believed even if the evidence refutes it.

I would say that Intelligent Design is much better supported by the evidence than is evolution, although I myself am a pure creationist.

I totally disagree with the Cardinal's thesis, whi...

2006-02-01T16:15:00.000-08:00

I totally disagree with the Cardinal's thesis, which would take too long to outline here. I'm a devout Catholic. Both the Catechism and Holy Scripture, which the Catechism holds in the highest regard, do NOT endorse any form of evolution, even theistic evolution. Theistic evolution is incredibly problematic for many reasons, the most obvious of which is: so God breathed a spirit into Adam while he was in the womb of his ape mother.... who had an animal spirit....well, that could explain how Adam was the first human AND had a belly button.

I'm extremely disappointed in all the Catholics who embrace any form of evolution.

the "THEORY of evolution". It CANNOT be proven.

Think about this: a scientist will say that a fossil/bone/thing is 30 million years old. Not only is there no point of reference for the fossil/bone/thing, but over such a period of time think about the element itself. We know that everything except for perhaps a diamond or other such object, which is never used in carbon or other dating, can be broken, eroded or altered. When a fossil/bone/thing is exposed to extreme heat, cold, erosion, water, salt, oxygen, gases, etc. etc., how can you say that the element has NOT changed over MILLIONS of years? How then can you possibly determine the age via any sort of realistic dating? You can't.

If recorded human history only goes back as far as the last 6 or 7 thousand years, on what basis can it be decided that something like carbon dating is reliable? If modern history is when carbon dating and other such "scientific explanations became an option, against what do you measure it's accuracy, since you cannot use history to do so? You have to use theory. You have to rely on faith that any such dating, carbon or otherwise, is accurate, and there are way too many variables to make that reliable.

ID or creation is scientific. In fact, if you follow the Biblical account of creation, it lines up far more convincingly scientifically than evolution. Factor in a great flood, 6000 years of human history, the rate of erosion (the world would be the size of a marble if it eroded at the rate it does now if it were billions or millions of years old) and you can easily conclude that a higher being orchestrated the origin of the universe.

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I'd take difster's opening sentence a step farther...

2006-01-28T19:37:00.000-08:00

I'd take difster's opening sentence a step farther and say that those who believe evolution are intellectually bankrupt.

They have no problem with a scenario of an astronaut when landing on a supposedly uninhabited planet and finding a wristwatch lying on the alien soil saying, "Gee, there must be intelligent beings on this planet to be able to have designed and made such a fine-looking timepiece," yet claim the infintely more complex servo-mechanism -- the wrist -- on which the watch would be worn as resulting from some happenstance of cellular division within a sea of primordial goo eons ago.

As an evolutionist, I would believe that if you could toss and mix a bit of metal, rubber, and plastic long enough, by golly! eventually you'd end up with a pristine '57 Chevy in candy-apple red with white tuck 'n' roll interior and a pair of fuzzy dice hanging from the rearview mirror.

...intellgent design has few supporters outside of...

2006-01-20T14:28:00.000-08:00

...intellgent design has few supporters outside of the United States.....

For that matter, Christianity has few supporters outside of the United States...

I've been living in Europe for 15 years now.....all you get in the churches that I have attended, is Marxism, pray for the Palestinians and don't forget the weekend protest against Isreal or US (take your pick). It has been like this well before Sept 11, in the aftermath of Sept 11, and continues today.

I accept that intellegent design on its face is not science, but could be if put out in a scientifically disciplined way....not like the junk science, for example that "proves" the global warming theory...

Secondly, I do not hold with the unspoken but underlying assumption that the court was correct in banning religious studies from public schools. The US did so (had religious studies as well as prayer in schools and public buildings) since about 1700 as colonies, continued to do so as a nation until the early 1960s. That a sitting court found the "wall of separation" between church and state only appx 180 years after the constitution was written is a bit tough to swallow.

Thirdly....if intellegent design proposes that some sort of intellegence has guided our creation and developement, the Roman Catholic Church would have to support the proposition, as that is a fundamental belief of said Church. It can certainally say that it is not good science, however. It has nothing to say, directly from Rome anyway, what should and should not be taught in an American School. That should come from the American Church (Council of Bishops or by whatever form) exercising thier rights as citizens.

paul

At first I thought this was going to be about Hill...

2006-01-20T11:47:00.000-08:00

At first I thought this was going to be about Hillary...heh...sorry to interrupt.

Please continue...

While I agree with difster's theology I don't agre...

2006-01-20T08:58:00.000-08:00

While I agree with difster's theology I don't agree that shutting down the school system in America is a good idea. While its quite true that home-schooled children do well academicly; not every child has two parents to school them. In truth some children have parents who simply would not school them. Perhaps it would be wiser to spend less time on the origin of the universe and more time on present day classroom and school system success. We all know we need higher paid more qualified teachers. We all know we need a far better students to teacher ratio. We all know we need better educated, college bound graduates. These and other issues far outway the debate as to how we got here. Let's educate and stop argueing! As far as evolution and the Catholic Church dogma that God developed nature and thus created us, well, that might hold (holy)water if it weren't for the fact that the Bible clearly teaches that God created man from the earth and woman from man. Clearly, God, never needed natures help.

If you are interested in more information on Cardi...

2006-01-19T20:44:00.000-08:00

If you are interested in more information on Cardinal Schonborn, as well as his views and ongoing contributions to this debate, you might be interested in visited the site/blog I direct:

http://blog.cardinalschonborn.com

and

http://www.cardinalschonborn.com

thanks!

Evolution is an intellectually bankrupt theory. Th...

2006-01-19T17:44:00.000-08:00

Evolution is an intellectually bankrupt theory. There are volumes of information available that easily dimiss the conecpt of evolution that I'm not going to argue the idea here. I am talking about macroevolution, not microevolution.

My point is, if evolution is not true, then what is the other alternative? We are either here by accident or not. If it's not an accident, it is by design. Who's design? Personally, I believe what the Bible says about creation. I don't believe we've been here for billions of years and no one has been able to prove we have. Carbon dating etc., are notoriously unreliable and easily fooled (intentional or not).

Putting all of that aside, I have a different solution to the problem of whether or not to teach evolution and/or intelligent design in the public school system.

SHUT THE WHOLE SYSTEM DOWN!

Yes, I'm serious, shut the entire public school system down, reduce taxes and let parents be responsible for educating their children. It's not the job of government to do so in the first place.