tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2290441863123219071.post8171626132405089344..comments2022-11-12T06:19:52.363-05:00Comments on Rants from the Hormonally Challenged: Making a Monkey of out ScopesLolamousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12508347229501155001noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2290441863123219071.post-33149136125057491292011-05-05T06:20:48.418-04:002011-05-05T06:20:48.418-04:00Well,donut day IS coming,wish the day of the world...Well,donut day IS coming,wish the day of the world's awakening to the awareness of evolution as a process and pillar of modern Biology-rather than a philosophical/religious explanation of the meaning of life -had a clock.Then again,waiting 28 days for donut day can't compare to contemplating the wait for superstition and dogma to quit retching and death rattling and just please die."I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention,how to fall down into the grass"<br />Mary OliverAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2290441863123219071.post-19273879699796359772011-04-26T05:11:27.320-04:002011-04-26T05:11:27.320-04:00In case it's not too late to comment:
True, E...In case it's not too late to comment:<br /><br />True, Einstein never said what Niceley quoted him as saying. It's basically a paraphrase of Francis Bacon (16th century), who was also a pretty brilliant man. The real quote is "It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion." <br /><br />As for the controversial issues (no need for quotation marks, since whether you like it or not there is a controversy), here's one from Nobel Prize-winning astronomer and chemist Fred Hoyle and chemist Chandra Wickramasinghe: "In accepting the 'primeval soup theory' of the origin of life, scientists have replaced the religious mysteries which shrouded this question with equally mysterious scientific dogmas." <br /><br />Francis Crick, another Nobel Prize-winner and co-discoverer of DNA: "An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going." <br /><br />George Wald, professor of biology at Harvard: "One has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede that the spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible. Yet here we are as a result, I believe, of spontaneous generation." <br /><br />In other words, many scientists agree that the accepted neo-Darwinian theory of evolution is impossible, although they may believe in it nevertheless. <br /><br />Incidentally, I wasn't aware that there was a "scientifically accepted" school of thought on human cloning. I thought it was an ethical controversy, not a scientific one. <br /><br />Scientists are often just as dogmatic about their theories/(dis)beliefs as fundamentalist Christians are about their beliefs. Unless they are willing to take seriously the evidence against their theories, they are not doing good science. <br /><br />The solution is not to teach Christianity in the schools. But evolution should not be taught as dogma, and the evidence against it should be presented.Truth Seekernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2290441863123219071.post-80659243706092986562011-04-14T09:49:43.897-04:002011-04-14T09:49:43.897-04:00nene-glad you feel better! I always welcome additi...nene-glad you feel better! I always welcome additional rants to my rants!Lolamousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12508347229501155001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2290441863123219071.post-67607373502936934292011-04-14T09:45:22.527-04:002011-04-14T09:45:22.527-04:00Odie-We can certainly agree to disagree on matters...Odie-We can certainly agree to disagree on matters of creation, and I, too, think that schools should STAY OUT of matters of faith. They have enough other stuff to cover, and, as you said, they often don't do that very well. It just scares me, however, that if the teachers in TN are anything like those Reps., given free leeway to teach what they please, they may end up giving kids lessons on how Aquanet saves the earth from global warming and how Einstein endorsed Christianity. That video was FRIGHTENING!Lolamousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12508347229501155001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2290441863123219071.post-20235916631840378162011-04-14T09:42:00.336-04:002011-04-14T09:42:00.336-04:00Ooooora!!!! I'm a huge advocate and proponent ...Ooooora!!!! I'm a huge advocate and proponent of keeping out any and all circuitous or surreptitious attempts at proselytizing any form of religion in public schools. Our Federal Constitution speaks to this issue. <br /><br />Hopefully, the more educated segment of our society understand the critical importance of this issue and will somehow address this in discourse. <br /><br />To misquote Einstein (should be "... a little knowledge is a very dangerous thing." and " ...imagination is more critical than knowledge") in this way is an indication to the true 'intent' by these self serving rightwing hypocritically moralistic 'buffoons'. Phew!!! I feel better.Marcoantonio Arellano (Nene)https://www.blogger.com/profile/10713672589582754484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2290441863123219071.post-59303242747448299012011-04-14T07:46:21.476-04:002011-04-14T07:46:21.476-04:00I for one of hopefully millions do not believe I c...I for one of hopefully millions do not believe I came from a monkey & don't like the idea that it is being taught to my grandsons. With me it ranks right in there with santa clause, the easter bunny and crap like that. Personally matters concerning my faith should only be taught by me, my grown children and our churches since the schools do such a poor job of it anyway.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00920831144240024660noreply@blogger.com