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Ya...Pseudo-Mystics. New Age stuff.Do you remember some time ago a show on television called, I think it was, the NBC Challenge?
I believe it was hosted by Bill Bixby and featured the world's top ten mystics in their respective fields, and challenged them on the air to demonstrate their crafts.
One woman, an aura reader, was put before ten curtains with someone behind each one, and asked if she could see their auras, and she said YES.
Then they had seven of the people go away, and asked the lady to tell which curtains had someone behind them by seeing their auras.
She failed miserably.
As did the other nine mystics -- including a dowser who incorrectly claimed there was water (or no water) in 55 gallon drums set before him.
Here in the NorthWest, old growth forest is very much teaming with life. Logging is about money. Money is not truth. The Life Force of the an old growth forest is where Truth resides. It's also the kind of place that God's Glory becomes alive in matter.Some old forest is good, but old growth is very lean in terms of supporting life. Selective logging can cause animals populations to do much better. And logging is an important industry.
Wow ... I was way off!Ya...Pseudo-Mystics. New Age stuff.
Calling the modern theory of evolution "Darwinism" is considered an insult in this forum, but regardless... Nobody is claiming that the theory of evolution is "creationism," only that it is consistent with divine creation.Not by itself it isn't. You can't have it both ways. If science can't say anything about God, you can't claim darwinism is a form of creationism.
Actually it does so quite well. Creationism cannot account for the wide range in species that we see, especially if one takes the Noah's Ark story literally.
No, it is not. I have never seen a person that understands evolution that can honestly oppose it.Circular reasoning.
If that's your image of mysticism, I understand your disavowing it. I would too. It's not at all my understanding though. For me it's about the mystery.
Thats not a "life force". Its a PHYSICAL forceDrive a truck into a brick wall and see if you don't experience a "life force" as well.
It's called "momentum."
You have never set foot in a forest, have you. Or if you have, it was so long ago that you have lost all connection to it.Ever been bit, stung, chased by bees, stalked, hit by lightning, dodged a falling limb, stepped in a hole and twisted an ankle, or whatever?
And how do you prepare for these walks? by spraying yourself with Deep Woods Off!™? taking Claritin™? packing pepper spray and a host of other stuff?
Remember Steve Irwin? what did Mother Nature do to him?
And what are you doing in the woods anyway? remember my last question in Post 187?
Teaching Creationism or, more precisely, teaching "Creation science" has been ruled unconstitutional in several courts, but teaching of the existence of some alternate theories concerning the origin of the universe--turtles included--is not. Many elementary and secondary schools teach about the culture of pre-Columbian peoples, for example.
It took me a couple of minutes to wipe the cornflakes off my iPad.Creation just means a Creator. I doubt it's gonna be a " Christian" class. Probably more like ID.
In Arkansas? It won't even be a generic Christian class--it'll be a fundamentalist Evangelical Protestant Christian class, you bet. No worries, there's enough Roman Catholics in Alabama to make a fuss--like they did in Texas with Santa Fe School District v. Doe.It took me a couple of minutes to wipe the cornflakes off my iPad.
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