I am not filtering out the hmmm subject yet. I miss http://www.lazydba.com
when people used to pose a question or post an article, Oracle related or not.
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From: Anderson, Brian <andersob_at_mail.dartnet.peachnet.edu>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 4:56 PM
Subject: RE: hmmm.....
> I wonder how many people are filtering out the "hmmm" subject by now...
>
> Just as another possibility, what is the form of an all powerfull diety.
>
> If we are made in Gods image, then doesn't evolution support us being
> formless images of god.
>
>
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>
> The idea that scientists create a theory and try to pass it as a fact is
> wrong. In contrary, scientists create a theory and try to find any hard
> evidence contradicting the theory. By hard evidence, I mean basic facts,
> something you can show. This also means, that at a given time several
> theories may be valid until some evidence contradicts them. The fact that
> you have a lot of proof supporting a theory does not make the theory valid.
> Just more likely.
>
> Given the above discussion, the evolution theory is just as much valid as
> any religion describing the origin of men, as long you do not have prove of
> any evidence contradicting it. The fact that there is no hard evidence of
> God, does not make the theory (religion) invalid. The fossils etc. make the
> evolution theory likely, but do not prove it.
>
> Personally, I think we descend from animals. I just hope we have gained the
> knowledge to not act like them. I also think ALL theories should be educated
> with the objections to each of them.
>
> Paul
>
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>
> I just had to jump in on this one. Being formerly from Kansas for the past
> 10 years.
> A hard look at the "facts" and the holes in the scientific evidence for
> evolution. To accept it as absolute takes as much FAITH as any intelligent
> design theory. The problem with the academic institutions is that they have
> taken a THEORY and are trying to pass it as fact. This is as grossly wrong
> as trying to force religion on someone who doesn't want anything to do with
> a deity. Education should be allowing the FREE FLOW of ideas not just
> directing them down one Politically Correct path or another. I don't
> support teachers thumping the Bible, Torah, Koran or any other religious
> book from their podium. Nor, to I support them bashing them and
> discrediting their value either, which has come to be the case with much of
> US public education.
>
> Rodd Holman (BS chemistry - yes I've looked into the minutea of life
> processes and can't find explanations in evolution)
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: MacGregor, Ian A. [SMTP:ian_at_SLAC.Stanford.EDU]
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 5:02 PM
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> > Subject: RE: hmmm.....
> >
> > A school board in the sunflower state proscribed the teaching of
> > evolutionion in their schools, or at least forbade it without giving
> > religious assertions as to the why's and wherefore's of life's existence
> > equal time and credence.
> >
> > Less well known: NASA recently apologized to the Navajo Nation after
> > crashing a capsule containing cremated astronomer on the moon. I cannot
> > remember what insult was conveyed by the dead astronomer-moon impact.
> >
> > Ian MacGregor
> > Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
> > ian_at_slac.stanford.edu
> >
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> >
> > Roads and highways are a good example, because they cut across local and
> > sometimes state boundaries. However, private colleges and universities
> > seem
> > to work fine, why not grade school? I suppose if there was a great demand
> > in a community for a school which did not teach evolution, then such a
> > school would appear. And if all the parents who want such a school don't
> > believe in evolution, then I guess they ought to have the right to have
> > their kids educated in accordance with their principles and values, even
> > if
> > they seem outrageously ignorant to us.
> >
> > I don't get the fossil reference; forgive me, I'm a product of NY public
> > schools!
> >
> > Gary
> >
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