Wesley R. Elsberry
Posts: 4991
Joined: May 2002
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BJRay:
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And just so you know, as long as their is breath in my lungs, if my child's school board attempts to not teach weaknesses of any side, especially evolution (why because it is the primary scientific theory taught, not just one I randomly chose to "pick on"). Then I'll teach them myself.
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Since you've demonstrated here that you don't know what evolutionary science is comprised of or premised upon, that you are willing to repeat convenient falsehoods told about evolutionary science, and further that you have no inclination to scrutinize even the philosophical basis upon which "weaknesses" are claimed, how is it that your "teaching" would be anything other than propagation of ignorance?
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We the undersigned, Christian clergy from many different traditions, believe that the timeless truths of the Bible and the discoveries of modern science may comfortably coexist. We believe that the theory of evolution is a foundational scientific truth, one that has stood up to rigorous scrutiny and upon which much of human knowledge and achievement rests. To reject this truth or to treat it as “one theory among others” is to deliberately embrace scientific ignorance and transmit such ignorance to our children. We believe that among God’s good gifts are human minds capable of critical thought and that the failure to fully employ this gift is a rejection of the will of our Creator. To argue that God’s loving plan of salvation for humanity precludes the full employment of the God-given faculty of reason is to attempt to limit God, an act of hubris. We urge school board members to preserve the integrity of the science curriculum by affirming the teaching of the theory of evolution as a core component of human knowledge. We ask that science remain science and that religion remain religion, two very different, but complementary, forms of truth.
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Emphasis added.
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"You can't teach an old dogma new tricks." - Dorothy Parker
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