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Evolution Weekend: different ways of knowing : Comments

By Michael Zimmerman, published 6/2/2014

This weekend marks the ninth year that hundreds of religious leaders all over the world have agreed to celebrate Evolution Weekend.

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Of course, they exist...

"To accept the existence of zombies, you need to be able to believe that dead people can walk around with bits of themselves missing, going "aaaaargh" a lot."

As evidence I cite the members of the House of Lords of the United Kindom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Not all of them admittedly, but sufficient numbers of them absent any useful synaptic activity to substantiate the belief.
Posted by WmTrevor, Thursday, 6 February 2014 7:13:04 PM
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Kingdom
Posted by WmTrevor, Thursday, 6 February 2014 7:13:52 PM
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Runner, we care all waiting for your proof that evolution is a myth.
Posted by GlenC, Thursday, 6 February 2014 10:45:52 PM
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Pericles,

>>This observation is also quite revealing:
"For three hours the audience appeared to be captivated, obediently applauding only when given permission to by the CNN moderator. Another 1 million people watched online and at one point the debate was one of the top four trending topics on Twitter. For all that attention, though, it seemed few minds were changed.”<<

Well, this is an observation about a silly debate with a Young Earth Creationist YOU CHOSE to refer to here, whereas the article by Zimmermann is of a completely different nature, about clergy and scientists engaged in a constructive conversation, where the relevant quote would be:

“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.”

I presume that you, and also Bill Nye as well as most of us, would agree with at least the first two sentences.

Nevertheless, your post enlightened me in one way: I used to think that Young Earth Creationism was an American disease, now I see it spread to Australia as well.
Posted by George, Friday, 7 February 2014 12:21:10 AM
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AUTHOR/quote..<<>.Because evolution is so central to biology >>

its the other way arround
biology..is a science/evolution..is the theo-ry

why invert the bleeding obvious
evolution=theory of evolution
biology is falsifiability true..[Mendelian inheritors refute evolution

evolutionists have never evolved any new genus/ever
[except by PHENOTYPE/..pheNO-TYICAL lie..]..AS fossils HAVE NO DNA..*thus no genetic link/SCIENCE FALSIYABILTy..can be affirmed..

its TAXONOMIC LIE..[phenotype=looks LIKE..but iSNT
[or rather cant be proved TO BE..CAUSE..no dna]

biology teaches us that in-breed's revert back to wild type
what BIOLOGICAL..PROOF They have for evolution..is easy refuted by the laws of biology[except THE IGNORANT S..take the atheist godless theory as fact..[WHEN ITS THEORY..get it?]

survival of THE fittest has only evolved fat cats
no new genus recorded ever..SCIENCE..never[theory get it?..

<<..and because the scientific method is so central to human advances,>>

yes egzactly..build up peert respect..while the lab coated demons slow kill us all with its DEMONIC GODLESS/PERVERSIONS

<<.it is not an exaggeration>>

NO ITS A theory

<<..to say that allowing this narrow-minded perspective to flourish undermines many fields of study and perverts education>>

Too right..to limit science..just to the flesh realm..is insane
the spirit realm is infinite..but DEMONS want us in material fixation/stasis..where they rule unseen over US.

if people only studied biology before they learn the evolving lie
Posted by one under god, Friday, 7 February 2014 7:40:38 AM
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AJ/REPLY/QUOTE..<<..''To a Christian God is at work in all things >>

aj..<<..I understand this, though it does get rather messy when you bring the all-important free will into the mix. How, after all, can we really have free will if God is doing everything through us and everything that is done is his will?>>

evil..is by our choice..so is the will to do good
[god/THE COLLECTIVE GOOD..knows that freewill must be by informed concent..of free choice

aj would you rather we were slaves only to GODSWILL/ie like we were BEFORE..satans fall..from grace..into human faLSITY/but freewill falsifyably

<<..It’s interesting, too, how quickly this bit of Christian thinking is dumped when something bad happens.>>

thats clearly wrong aj
i hear amy aTHeists crying out TO GOD
then thanking chance or science..wHEN the fear has gone

please dont invert a bias..ol mate

we all know how fast the godless find GOD
WHEN evil strikes..[and thats just fine with god..he knows we all come home..in our own time..cause we all shall know the truth..it will set us free

look atheists agnostics etc..ignoring that science labels 'auto-response'..how do you MAKE YOUR Heart beat..how do you make your broken body repair..thing is even science dont know.

but god dont care how we came to see love
that..via logic..light love become life
ONLY THAT..we each receive equal GRACE...MERCy..once we get here.[equal/wages]..

we each have our loves /hates..but god alone loves us ALL*
Posted by one under god, Friday, 7 February 2014 7:59:29 AM
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