Evolution Beats Intelligent Design in Florida
By Brandon Keim December 27, 2007 | 10:30:29 AMCategories: Evolution, Government, Religion
Members of a Florida county school board who last month wanted a classroom balance between evolution with intelligent design have quietly reversed their positions.
Shortly before Thanksgiving, four members of the Polk County School Board said they didn't support Florida's proposed science education guidelines, which designate evolution as a fundamental concept that every student should understand.
Wired Science covered the controversy, which came hot on the heels of a Texas education official's firing for telling people about a lecture critical of intelligent design. A new battle appeared to have broken out between proponents of evolution -- the scientifically observed and accepted explanation for the development of life on Earth -- and intelligent design, a religiously-inspired account of life's origins as being too complicated and coincidental to be explained by anything but divine intervention.
Barely a month later, reports the Tampa Tribune, "the controversy is dying with a whimper," with school board officials insisting that their personal belief in intelligent design shouldn't be taught to kids as science.
What happened? You can start with the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
The satirical religious Web site asserts that an omnipotent, airborne clump of spaghetti intelligently designed all life with the deft touch of its "noodly appendage." Adherents call themselves Pastafarians. They deluged Polk school board members with e-mail demanding equal time for Flying Spaghetti Monsterism's version of intelligent design.
"They've made us the laughingstock of the world," said Margaret Lofton, a school board member who supports intelligent design. She dismissed the e-mail as ridiculous and insulting.
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This has been all over the news here, and we ended up having a debate about the validity of having ID in our kids schools. I'm interested what your opinions are on this topic
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BTW, if you are a believer in Biblical creation I have a question for you. Which version of creation do you believe in; Gen.1:1 - 2:4a, or Gen.2:4b - 25?
You would be far better off to know how the Bible itself was created than to indulge the endless debate over how the world was created.
I'm not the best judge of that, but i'm not sure that science is the right place either.
At this juncture... who would want to?
It should not be a function of schools to teach myth.
Evolution, Evolution is a scientifically observed theory, The THEORY of evolution, Mind you. Darwin himself says in his book "the Origin Of Species" that he only noticed the changes within finches, the SS bugle was the ship he was on I believe, He noticed on an island that the birds had beaks which were at different lengths and depending on the niches that they pecked in, their beaks were exactly the size they needed.
Evolution as a theory is based on finding the connection of how a species, turns into a different species. E.g a monkey turning into a human, We are no longer the same species or else we would be able to mate and produce off spring. Similarly, a horse and donkey can mate and produce a mule. but the mule cannot mate and produce more off spring.
I spoke against evolution for a moment, let me turn to "intelligent design" The entire theory from the bible or the Torah (the jewish scriptures) is entirely laughable, The fact that Adam was creation out of nothing, and eve was created either out of his limb or similar material is ridicuous enough, but the fact that if you simply say"To populate the earth, they had to commit incest" despite both scriptures speaking against it, they wil be forced to make excuses.
The entire concept of intelligent design is to do with a higher being, e.g God. But within this stand, we have different problems. the fact that this "God" figure is spoken differently in each scriptures, and says different things. Despite the differences, this character claims to be the one and the same, some similarities are seen. My question to do with intelligent design is simple. There have been no miracles, no prophets, no messegers, no signs, nor anything divine in this world since the time the scriptures were concieved, Evolution atleast has some form of evidence, Intelligent design....has none.
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even if there was evidence of the miraculous, would we recognise it as such?
No, Athiests will remain blinded by their own delusions of explanations of events that have none and marvel at their own stupidity. That is the only fate athiests have, before the theory of evolution, they had no excuse ont he origins of life except "God isnt a valid answer" now they waver the ever dying theory of evolution in creationists faces despite all their fossils being proven wrong since the 1932 and yet they remain adamant in the theory of evolution.
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