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How were you taught Evolution?

How were you taught evolution?

  • With an explicit denial of God's involvement

  • With an explicit affirmation of God's involvement

  • Without either an affirmation or denial of God's involvement


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Atheos canadensis

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Oh...wait....we haven't heard the last from this. Be patient because we both know what's coming.

Heh, I'm pretty sure only one of us does. I'm not psychic, it's just that we've already gotten the answer from three different people. Yet you are still convinced that they're going to change their answers! Poor Just.
 
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LOL. Your evasion and leading and misleading questions is a great example of why the challenge to atheistic creationism being taught in our schools will prevail. There's not going to be such evasion in the courts.
 
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Denial is the wonder drug for some.
 
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LOL. Your evasion and leading and misleading questions is a great example of why the challenge to atheistic creationism being taught in our schools will prevail. There's not going to be such evasion in the courts.

Please provide the posts in which I am evasive. I suspect you will decline this challenge.
 
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Please provide the posts in which I am evasive. I suspect you will decline this challenge.

You begin the thread with evasive leading and misleading questions, evading the issue. The question isn't about God being mentioned, or not mentioned, in the classes, those are your evasive questions. The question is, and always has been, about teaching exclusively the sufficiency of only, totally, completely, solely naturalistic mechanisms to produce all of life we observe today from a single life forms of long long ago.
 
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As I suspected (two other Christian-educated people have given the same answer). Would you agree that this disproves Just's desperately-maintained belief that the definition I posted is inherently atheistic?




Thanks.

Well, it's still small sample, but the statistics are in your favor so far.


Your question is about whether or not it was entirely naturalistic forces, not whether or not is is a natural process. We were taught that evolution is a natural process yes, much like how gravity or the nervous system is a natural process. I'm tired of this KGB interrogation and am going to watch Sunday afternoon baseball.
 
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I think you'll find that I formulated this poll before you started saying that sciences classes were teaching atheistic creationism implicitly. Thus the questions do not reflect this. In any case, followup questioning in the thread has refuted your contention of an implicit atheist metaphysic.
 
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Wait....you haven't answered my questions!

Maybe later? Hopefully?
 
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Science classes are teaching atheistic creationism, implicitly.

It seems that when questioned beyond your leading and misleading questions, that the issue of all life being only, totally, completely, totally, solely the result of naturalistic mechanisms acting on a single life form from long long ago isn't a view that one can reconcile with....

Joh 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

Those folks always seem to disappear when specifics about what they were taught is discussed.

Next!!
 
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Or maybe they just get tired of answering the same question over and over after they state that the wiki definition aligns with what they were taught. Three different people have already explicitly answered yes when asked if that definition is what they were taught in Christian schools, so I'm no exactly worried here. But your misplaced confidence is amusing to me.
 
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When questioned further, they seemed to not want to talk about it though, for some reason. Yes, there's much more to the story than your leading and misleading questions.
 
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When questioned further, they seemed to not want to talk about it though, for some reason. Yes, there's much more to the story than your leading and misleading questions.

When you say "questioned further", you really mean just asking them the same question over and over in the hope that you'll finally get a response that doesn't prove you wrong. I see Quatona has certainly become frustrated with your "discussion" tactic of merely repeating some variation of the same question over and over. How many times does he have to give the same answer before you accept that you're wrong?
 
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So basically, once your poll didn't get the results you wanted, you looked up ways to try to make it out to be flawed.

My poll, technically. But yes, he didn't like the almost 100% rejection of his premise. And now that the Christian posters are affirming that the wiki definition of Darwinism was taught in their Christian schools he is trying to badger them into changing their answer. Most recently he is claiming victory when they get tired of answering the same question over and over and stop responding.
 
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So basically, once your poll didn't get the results you wanted, you looked up ways to try to make it out to be flawed.

It was obvious from the beginning that it was based on leading and misleading questions. I pointed that out several days ago.
 
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It was obvious from the beginning that it was based on leading and misleading questions. I pointed that out several days ago.

Then how would you word these questions then, retaining the option of people making choices which don't agree with your position? These aren't leading questions, sorry, in fact of anything just because your position was listed first it should have a slight advantage over the other answers.

In any case I have had extensive training in locating leading questions, bad polls, and the like, and this shows none of the signs. Get over it, you were wrong.
 
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And since the TOE is a scientific theory and science only looks at natural processes, it only makes sense you were taught this in science class.

Thanks for your input.
 
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Make sure it's understood that this isn't about abiogenesis, then......

First question. Were you taught that all of life (not abiogenesis) is the result of anything other than naturalistic mechanisms acting on a single life form from long long ago?

Second question. If naturalistic processes included other impetuses, what additional impetuses were taught in addition to naturalistic processes, which resulted in all life we observe today?

Depending on the answer to those simple questions, we then can examine the answers....and ask more questions to clarify, if needed.
 
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