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Author Topic: Texas declares historical textbooks to be "biased to the left"  (Read 12593 times)

« Reply #15 on: March 14, 2010, 06:23:11 PM »
Since Darwin's time, massive additional evidence has accumulated supporting the fact of evolution. All current unbiased empirical evidence verifies it.

EDIT: I don't understand why creationists accept the theories of gravity and relativity as facts but can't accept the theory of evolution.
« Last Edit: March 14, 2010, 06:26:49 PM by PaperLuigi »
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« Reply #16 on: March 14, 2010, 06:55:23 PM »
You can easily prove that objects fall to the ground.  You can't prove that one species can turn into another over time due to random mutations.  Or that life can come from nowhere.
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« Reply #17 on: March 14, 2010, 06:57:36 PM »
Amino acids and proteins binding?
That was a joke.

« Reply #18 on: March 14, 2010, 07:01:22 PM »
You can't prove that one species can turn into another over time due to random mutations.  Or that life can come from nowhere.

Educate yourself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmUGJ3Jh7fc
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« Reply #19 on: March 14, 2010, 07:45:09 PM »
YouTube has decided it doesn't like to work on my computer recently.  Is there a text alternative with the same argument?
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« Reply #20 on: March 14, 2010, 08:05:05 PM »
Absolutely:

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/sciproof.html

This entire website is devoted to educating the public about macroevolution or, as you put it, "species turning into other species through random mutations." Be sure to watch the video too.
« Last Edit: March 14, 2010, 08:09:02 PM by PaperLuigi »
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« Reply #21 on: March 14, 2010, 08:57:30 PM »
I like how this thread proves Turtlekid simply recycles the same defenses/arguments in every single thread on this sub-board.
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« Reply #22 on: March 14, 2010, 09:01:26 PM »
You can only go so far with creationism.
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« Reply #23 on: March 15, 2010, 01:36:27 PM »
I just read through the section on slavery in the Texas books. It's just a big two-page spread of Yosemite Sam shooting his guns into the air.
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« Reply #24 on: March 15, 2010, 04:35:32 PM »
Good thing I graduated from school already, I guess. I don't see the big deal here.

I'm actually stunned that this turned into a Fungi Forum Clique v. Turtlekid type evolution & creationism [dukar]storm instead of a "lol i iz not frum texus but i can tel u that texaas is all a bunchc of rednex LoL!" type ordeal.
Formerly quite reasonable.

« Reply #25 on: March 15, 2010, 05:17:58 PM »
Textbooks being revised is a comon occurence, but rarely are they altered in favour of a conservative viewpoint. Some of those changes ("capitalism" to "free-enterprise system") create more bias than they resolve, but others (educating students about "the conservative resurgence of the 1980s and 1990s) are quite valid.

We can associate ID with conceptions of a flat Earth because no amount of scientific, empirical research can verify either.

One can be disproven, the other cannot. Those who put their trust merely in science fail to acknowledge that everything we claim to "know" will someday be proven wrong, much as it has since the dawn of human existence. Explaining the world through worldly means is, to present it as an entirely conceptual analogy, like pouring water into a glass made of water.
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« Reply #26 on: March 15, 2010, 09:09:54 PM »
instead of a "lol i iz not frum texus but i can tel u that texaas is all a bunchc of rednex LoL!" type ordeal.

Hard to do that when Texas' conservative ideals have left them with the biggest surplus of all the states IIRC.

That and PaperLuigi seems to be distancing himself from his ol' Texan roots.
As a game that requires six friends, an HDTV, and skill, I can see why the majority of TMK is going to hate on it hard.

« Reply #27 on: March 16, 2010, 01:36:18 AM »
One can be disproven, the other cannot. Those who put their trust merely in science fail to acknowledge that everything we claim to "know" will someday be proven wrong, much as it has since the dawn of human existence. Explaining the world through worldly means is, to present it as an entirely conceptual analogy, like pouring water into a glass made of water.
If you "put your trust" in something besides science you are, by definition, just making stuff up, with no observation of, ya know, the actual world, and then proclaiming that it can't be disproven, which may be true, but shows that you don't know how arguments or theories work. If you make something up, you have the burden of proof, you have to show it's true—not just yell, "la la la it can't be disproven, suckers!"

« Reply #28 on: March 16, 2010, 08:57:34 AM »
Textbooks should never be biased for any reason, ever. I've also noticed that the earth isn't explained as constantly expanding while it is as slowly of a rate as it is, it is still expanding just like the universe.
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« Reply #29 on: March 16, 2010, 09:04:41 AM »
It's impossible for something to not be biased. Concepts like connotation make sure of that.

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