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How many creationists practise what they preach?

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VirOptimus

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If i believed everything that science said, i would believe that God isn't real, -snip-

As god(s) is a metaphysical concept and therefore not part of the physical world science does not help us determining wheter god(s) exists or not.
 
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I sure hope creationist parents who home school their children are engaged in the equipping ministry (age appropriate) of children being exposed to the theory of evolution along with its refutation.

Showing the children the holes in that way of thinking is critical for them when they leave homeschooling and enter the world of university or employment. The enemies' tools should be explained and exposed by knowledgeable and caring Christian parents.

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Should someone show their kids a video on how to make a pipe bomb, then let them make up their own minds?
I checked out a book (and read it) from my jr high school library (8th grade) entitled "How to Make an Atomic Bomb in your Kitchen Sink."

It gave us all the details with 2 exceptions: the EXACT number for critical mass, and WHERE to obtain fissable Plutonium.
 
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I disagree.

I think a child should know Genesis 1 and how it pwns evolution; and that should be good enough.

Giving too much air time to evolution just stirs the pot too much.
 
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Why should science have to recognize a religious culture in it's work?

Public schools ought to recognize the dominant cultural narrative. Especially when they teach something that apparently does not comply with it. That's just good pedagogy 101. When I teach the Bible I make sure that I'm contrasting it with the dominant views of the culture. Otherwise the teaching is not very affective or practical.
 
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By "dominant cultural narrative" I mean the narrative that has dominated the west over the past millennia.

But I agree. This is why when evolution is taught in public schools it ought to be taught in a way that acknowledges the apparent difficulties for religious people. Otherwise it's just intellectual imperialism.
 
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As god(s) is a metaphysical concept and therefore not part of the physical world science does not help us determining wheter god(s) exists or not.

Thats the problem with science, it only sees natural things, but cannot see into mans soul. Even then it cant see properly. TO science, love is just a chemical reaction, or electrical response in the brain. If effect science turns man into a robot. Science also turns man into nothing but an animal.
 
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Science is actually blind in many ways. It sees only chemical reactions and electrical impulses in the human brain, but it really has no understanding of what they mean. To science things like depression are only chemical imbalances, therefore science is blind, and ends up doping mans brain with various cocktails of various drugs, which actually do as much harm as they do good. In effect, science is like a medieval butcher.
 
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Become a Jehovah's witnesses then you won't ever need the services of medieval butcher again prayer will be all you will need, or stay as you are and visit one every time you get sick, or die, the choice is yours.
Science is only blind to mans imagination.
 
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Im not in agreement with them either. Science is blind to its own blindness. Its like a blind man in denial, walking toward a cliff. He says, "I can see, im not blind!", yet he walks toward his own destruction.
 
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The dominant cultural narrative does not determine the accuracy of theories in science. One of the best lessons one can learn in science is to put your beliefs to the side and follow the evidence.
 
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The dominant cultural narrative does not determine the accuracy of theories in science. One of the best lessons one can learn in science is to put your beliefs to the side and follow the evidence.
Maybe so. But how do you put your beliefs aside if you never acknowledge them and acknowledge where the evidence seems to be in discord with them?
 
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Maybe so. But how do you put your beliefs aside if you never acknowledge them and acknowledge where the evidence seems to be in discord with them?

Why would you need to acknowledge your beliefs in science? You follow the evidence, not your beliefs.
 
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Maybe so. But how do you put your beliefs aside if you never acknowledge them and acknowledge where the evidence seems to be in discord with them?
Your beliefs are just that, beliefs, they are not backed by evidence that's why they are called beliefs, you can not teach others about your beliefs because those beliefs are peculiar to you, all others can do is imagine what you believe but they can never really know, they therefore must imagine their own beliefs in their own minds, that ultimately means that no two beliefs are the same and your God and theirs is unlike any other Gods ever imagined before.
 
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Why would you need to acknowledge your beliefs in science? You follow the evidence, not your beliefs.

Well. We're not really talking about "science", strictly speaking. We're talking about education and, more specifically, public schooling. It's just good pedagogy to recognize our current beliefs and dominate cultural beliefs as we learn new ideas.
 
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