[creation] Re: Darwin put to flight in Bible Belt
- From: "Marshall" <fefinc@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <creation@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:09:05 -0500
Our Georgia State Representative Ben Bridges has been granted a hearing to
introduce a Bill seeking to challenge evolutionism strictly on scientific
grounds in all Georgia Schools. This is the first hurdle. We'll see. (I
wrote the Bill, Ben is a tough Christian....)
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From: "Dr. Neville Jones" <ntj005@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <creation@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 5:04 PM
Subject: [creation] Darwin put to flight in Bible Belt
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> I will start the ball rolling with the following observation:
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> Under the heading, "Darwin put to flight in Bible Belt," on page 27 of The
Sunday Times, 30 January, 2005, Sarah Baxter presents a report with the
following tints of bias:
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> "Bold initiatives to introduce the concept of 'intelligent design',
wrought by a god or higher being, into theories about Earth's creation are
being sponsored in towns and communities across America.
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> "Religious fundamentalists - or 'theocons' - opposed to Darwinism have
adopted sophisticated tactics .
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> "A recent CBS poll found that 55% of Americans and 67% of those who voted
for Bush do not believe in evolution.
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> "The prairie town of Salina, Kansas, in the centre of the United States is
modern enough to have a two-mile airstrip. When it comes to religion,
however, little has changed for some families since the pioneers rolled by
on their wagons.
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> "It is hard for opponents to write the [intelligent design movement] off
as the American equivalent of Afghanistan's fundamentalist Taliban .
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> "[Jack Krebs of Kansas Citizens for Science], 56, a veteran of skirmishes
with anti-evolutionists, said . 'It used to be easy to dismiss the views of
young Earth creationists as an embarrassment, ."
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> Well, there we are then. This would imply that we are a bunch of backward,
Bush-loving 'theocons' (what?), whose views are an 'embarrassment' to 'real'
scientists.
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> Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers,
walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his
coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were
from the beginning of the creation. For this they willingly are ignorant of,
that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out
of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being
overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are
now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day
of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. (2 Pet. 3:3-7, KJV.)
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