Sentences with phrase «getting creationism»

The move is the culmination of a long campaign by secularists, who first succeeded in getting creationism banned from all future free schools, then future stand - alone academies and then finally all future multi-academy trusts.

He was saying that if people do that it would be just as insane as people trying to get creationism taught in science class.

You're correct in one of your comparisons, at least, which is that there's no difference between what Heartland does and the attempts to get creationism taught in public schools.

Not exact matches

it is a problem when these religious Politicians are trying to get religion (in this case Creationism) to be taught in SCIENCE classes.

If you do Creationism you have to go through other faith's take on the creation of the universe as well and that wont give our kids the much needed brain power they need to get us out this funk!

You get guys like Nye, et al, who in their defense of evolution, make these wide sweeping claims that belief in creationism is somehow going to undermine the very foundations of science.

I mean, I'm all for (creationism) in philosophy class, history of religion class, human psychology class,» but bring it into science class, and Nye gets upset.

He isn't even bashing creationism, that is just the right - winged CNN trying to get a rise from it's viewers.

(s) he can speak for themselves, but I got the point to be that it is a waste of time even considering creationism, it is just so discredited.

A candidate isn't going to get anywhere with most conservative evangelicals if they support a woman's right to chose, or if the candidate supports strict separation of church and state, and maybe even opposition to teaching Creationism is going to lose their vote.

You don't have to go very far down that road before you start thinking about creation science or scientific creationism, or get involved in school board squabbles about whether Genesis should be taught alongside of evolution in high school biology courses.

sqeptiq... That was a wonderfully «crafted» piece of «creative» writing... Hence, you have proved that you are indeed «made in the image» of the God who CREATED you... Your post reflects (and demands) creationism... unless you are now going to tell me that those words got there by «accident»...?

Ok we cant deny it anymore the church said, so lets say GOD created evolution but we will not calll it evolution because thats just is admitting that science was right, lets call it Smart design, and so creationism was born, its no surprise that any great discovery gets hijacked and twisted and changed to fit with the religious when so long before proven it gets denied by the same people.

any scientist that believes in creationism is an IGNORANT MORON and got his degree by cheating, lying or stealing and should be thrown in jail.

All these parents who insist on teaching «creationism» to their kids as «science», while downplaying (or completely / hiding denying) the tangible bona fide evidence of evolution... I sometimes have to wonder why they don't simply feed lead paint to their kids and get it over with.

To get a gauge of just how inane the belief in creationism / intelligent design is in the 21st Century, here are some areas they must ignore, any one of which proves beyond rational argument that, not surprisingly, the World did not start about 6,000 years ago at the behest of the Judeo - Christian god, with one man, one woman and a talking snake.

We need to get the people in this country to stop with this ridiculous creationism state of mind!

@this lady, The whole debate is about this only — the Christians are trying to get a backdoor entry into public schools by incorporating Creationism into science textbooks!

But, it is likely that as you get well versed in the natural sciences, it becomes much easier to stray away from creationism.

@chad You will say something to get last word in so take it up with the courts It is illegal to teach creationism / ID or bible studies in public schools in US STEM science standards for 2013 They are making ears.

Unfortunately, the anti-intellectualism movement in America is only getting stronger... I seriously doubt that the idea of creationism will be gone in 200 years or ever for that matter.

Other indications of evolution are too numerous to actually list in full, but a few might be the clear genetic distinction between Neanderthals and modern man; the overlapping features of hominid and pre-hominid fossil forms; the progressive order of the fossil record (that is, first fish, then amphibians, then reptiles, then mammals, then birds; contradicting the Genesis order and all flood models); the phylogenetic relationships between extant and extinct species (including distributions of parasitic genetic elements like Endogenous Retroviruses); the real time observations of speciation in the lab and in the wild; the real time observations of novel functionality in the lab and wild (both genetic, Lenski's E. coli, and organsimal, the Pod Mrcaru lizards); the observation of convergent evolution defeating arguments of common component creationism (new world v. old world vultures for instance); and... well... I guess you get the picture.

If you want to deny gay people the right to get married, or want to outlaw abortion, or want creationism taught in school then you have hurt others.

At 11,000 posts in almost 27 hours, the CNN Belief Blog got their money's worth on the «Bill Nye slams creationism» topic.

I've never heard of a public classroom where creationism is taught, I believe the only way to get away from secular teaching is private schooling.

You did not get a very good education with your degrees then if you think creationism belongs in a science class.

• The feature «Don't tell it so straight» (29 October, p 42) mistakenly suggested that the Discovery Institute sought to get biblical creationism taught in science classes, and used the talking point «evolution is just a theory».

Indeed, every single «original» idea from this guy's mouth has turned out to be as accurate as the likes of Young Earth Creationism (aka not in the slightest) and his chances of getting things right seems to be about as «good» as the daily horoscope, TV psychics and Micheal Pachter's predictions (aka non existent).

I also imgaine that these right wingers (neo cons I believe they are known as) are also very religious in nature (or appear to be) and they carry a lot of power in the USA and hence considering the evolution vs creationism debate that is raging over there at the moment getting action on climate change seems to be almost impossible in the current or by a future republican administration.

If someone wants to get into creationism, it would be the same.

I was part of the early moment in the 1980s challenging creationism getting to the schools.

No, actually, it's worse, because at least Creationism isn't getting a leg up by way of the media's gross oversimplification.

Well Nice to see that the conversation about Spenser gets diverted into questions of death threat emails, creationism, and other retarded topics..

so get the flat earth, creationism and tobacco out of your system and focus on the topic at hand.

For instance you get a similar picture with your studies on creationism (the gradients are a bit different, because creationism is an old and «received» culture).

I'm not too fond of conservative anti-science activism in other fields (Creationism and stem cell funding bans etc.) but this one they have stumbled into getting right: it's a huge fraud.

[Response: I don't get your question about creationism, but here is a simple example to illustrate the point Martin was making.