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[ArthurN mentions the danger of teaching creationism s part & parcel of the school curriculum. runner responds:]
We teach the evolution myth which eases peoples consciences in killing the unborn and behaving immorally so why not teach something with a lot more evidence to back it.
At least one prominent evolutionist is honest when he says
‘Evolution is promoted by its practitioners as more than mere science. Evolution is promulgated as an ideology, a secular religion—a full-fledged alternative to Christianity, with meaning and morality. I am an ardent evolutionist and an ex-Christian, but I must admit in this one complaint. . . the literalists [i.e., creationists] are absolutely right. Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today.
'Michael Ruse, professor of history and philosophy and author of The Darwinian Revolution (1979), Darwinism Defended (1982), and Taking Darwin Seriously (1986), acknowledges that evolution is religious:
Posted by runner, Friday, 29 August 2008 10:58:25 AM
[When one of the posters points out that evolution has no god or anything else that's similar to a religion runner responds:]
EVO
'I know i should know better, but Runner! Seriously mate! what is wrong with you? Evolution is a religion! lol! if so,
where is our god?
That is the point. Evolutionist are ignorant enough to practice a religion which denies that creation requires a Creator. That is one dumb religion.
Posted by runner, Friday, 29 August 2008 4:00:56 PM
runner,
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