Should Evolution be Taught in Schools?

[Backwards Child]

Scientists claim that evolution is now a scientific fact, due to discovering transitional forms, and other overwhelming evidence, and thus it must be true. They claim that Creation is nothing more than a religious belief, and thus should not be taught in public schools at all. What do you think?

[Gabriel Reproba]

Re: Should Evolution be Taught in Schools?

Scientists claim that evolution is now a scientific fact, due to discovering transitional forms, and other overwhelming evidence, and thus it must be true. They claim that Creation is nothing more than a religious belief, and thus should not be taught in public schools at all. What do you think?

What transitional forms? They can NEVER show you one. There has never been a transition between kinds, only within kinds. This is all a bunch of hogwash.

[Backwards Child]

Re: Should Evolution be Taught in Schools?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiktaalik

I give you the Tiktaalik, a proven transitional form, It has a mixture of fish and tetrapod characteristics.

[Bobby-Joe]

Re: Should Evolution be Taught in Schools?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiktaalik
I give you the Tiktaalik, a proven transitional form, It has a mixture of fish and tetrapod characteristics.

A magic man-fish? This that the best you can come up with? Friend, they're are clearly two gaps on the fossil record; were is the transition from from boney fish to Tiktaalik and were is the transitional fossil between Tiktaalik and amphibians?

[John Scopes]

Re: Should Evolution be Taught in Schools?

There have been literally millions of failed evolutionary paths over the eons. Because only a small number of these creatures die in the ideal circumstances to fossilize, those who deny the reality of the evolutionary process can continue with their quaint superstitions because of this unfortunate statistical reality.

[Gabriel Reproba]

Re: Should Evolution be Taught in Schools?

Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."

John 1:1 "In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

[Backwards Child]

Re: Should Evolution be Taught in Schools?

A magic man-fish? This that the best you can come up with? Friend, they're are clearly two gaps on the fossil record; were is the transition from from boney fish to Tiktaalik and were is the transitional fossil between Tiktaalik and amphibians?

Not a man-fish, a amphibian-fish. And certaintly not magic.
And the fact that you even asked that shows that you will never be satisfied, and demonstrates your ignorance. If I provided you with THOSE fossils, you would say, "Well now there is FOUR gaps in the fossil records! Where are the transitional forms between those and tiktaalik?" But in any case, if you had actually rad the article, you would have seen this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fishapods.png

Panderichthys is the transitional form between Fish and tiktaalik, and Acanthostega and Ichthyostega are form in between tiktaalik and true amphibians.

[Gabriel Reproba]

Re: Should Evolution be Taught in Schools?

There have been literally millions of failed evolutionary paths over the eons. Because only a small number of these creatures die in the ideal circumstances to fossilize, those who deny the reality of the evolutionary process can continue with their quaint superstitions because of this unfortunate statistical reality.

[Backwards Child]

Re: Should Evolution be Taught in Schools?

While that is a gross, twisted and incorrect version of Science and the laws of physics, I am equally willing to make your beliefs look ridiculous as well.

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[Gabriel Reproba]

Re: Should Evolution be Taught in Schools?

While that is a gross, twisted and incorrect version of Science and the laws of physics, I am equally willing to make your beliefs look ridiculous as well.

Did you just come to our home on the internets to mock us? Do you usually go to other religious places and mock the practitioners of faith? We didn't go to your science-worshiping sites and harass you about your immoral beliefs, so why do you mock our faith in God. Was this your plan all along?

[Backwards Child]

Re: Should Evolution be Taught in Schools?

No, my original plan was to find out why you believed what you did, just to try to understand. But so far, for simply asking questions, all Ive been met with is open hostility.

[Bobby-Joe]

Re: Should Evolution be Taught in Schools?

Not a man-fish, a amphibian-fish. And certaintly not magic.
And the fact that you even asked that shows that you will never be satisfied, and demonstrates your ignorance. If I provided you with THOSE fossils, you would say, "Well now there is FOUR gaps in the fossil records! Where are the transitional forms between those and tiktaalik?" But in any case, if you had actually rad the article, you would have seen this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fishapods.png

Panderichthys is the transitional form between Fish and tiktaalik, and Acanthostega and Ichthyostega are form in between tiktaalik and true amphibians.

So now there are six gaps in the fossil record? No wonder evolution is a Theory in Crises(R). What will it be next week; eight gaps?

The fact is as a TRUE Christian I refuse to believe in magic. I find it hard to believe that there was some fish swimming in the sea and some invisible, all encompassing force operating on a time scale far beyond human comprehension metaphorically waved it's magic wand and then "poof", the little fish has legs. I want hard facts, not conjuncture based on speculation over something written in some old book like you Darwnist do.

[Backwards Child]

Re: Should Evolution be Taught in Schools?

okay, there is NO WAY that you can be for real. That HAD to be sarcasm.

[Brother Temperance]

Re: Should Evolution be Taught in Schools?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fishapods.png
Panderichthys is the transitional form between Fish and tiktaalik, and Acanthostega and Ichthyostega are form in between tiktaalik and true amphibians.

Clearly nonsense, from the name onwards. Fishapods? Come on, it even sounds like a kind of pokemon or something. And look at that picture:

Someone clearly just scribbled those monstrosities in Microsoft Paint while off their face on salvia. If implausible drawings are admissible, then I'd like to present the following scientific diagram proving beyond all doubt that God wrote the Bible (Our Lord is depicted behind a cloud so as not to be a graven image):

You see?

[John Scopes]

Re: Should Evolution be Taught in Schools?

Not a man-fish, a amphibian-fish. And certaintly not magic.
And the fact that you even asked that shows that you will never be satisfied, and demonstrates your ignorance. If I provided you with THOSE fossils, you would say, "Well now there is FOUR gaps in the fossil records! Where are the transitional forms between those and tiktaalik?" But in any case, if you had actually rad the article, you would have seen this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fishapods.png

Panderichthys is the transitional form between Fish and tiktaalik, and Acanthostega and Ichthyostega are form in between tiktaalik and true amphibians.

Just a bit of friendly advice, metaphorically you are pissing into the wind in this place.

I am here for purely scientific purposes. A large percentage of Christians, and Baptists in particular, have unchanged DNA going back several generations. The ones that have not recessed to the point they cannot use a computer are not here of course, but there is an interesting cross section of genetically challenged individuals here.