On Sat, 25 May 2013 07:57:08 -0700 (PDT), gladys swager
<
gsw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Saturday, May 25, 2013, Barry OGrady wrote:
>> On Fri, 24 May 2013< gladys swager <
gsw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>On Saturday, May 25, 2013, Barry OGrady wrote:
>
>>> >> >John 3 : 16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten
>>> >> >Son, that whoever belives in Him should not perish, but have everlasting
>> >> >Life.
>
>> > The Christian faith is immoral.
>
>The Christian faith, from both the Old and the New Testaments of the Bible,
>set the moral, ethical values tha tAustralia was built on from 1788.
>That some persons did not follow those ethical values was not due to the Christian faith,
>but rathe rto either an ignorance of the Christian faith or to a non compliance with its teachings.
We are lucky that some were willing to defy the church.
>Those who wanted to impose Atheism (and I do not know if they had
>other ideological beliefs), went out from 1963 to move High School
>students, and later, Primary School pupils from sometime in the
>1980's, to a belief in Evolution and millions of years - (younger
>pupils really did/do love dinosaurs and millions of years)....did so
>without any scientific proof - what has been demanded of me in these
>postings, was not given by the Evolutionists - and if the
>Evolutionists and you, Barry, have the proof or what happened at the
>beginning of time then you have a duty to give that information with
>all the historical and scientific data. But all you have done is akin
>to a war-dance chanting...
>"Evolution happened....millions of years"... !!!
http://anthro.palomar.edu/evolve/evolve_3.htm
The Nobel Prize winning scientist Linus Pauling aptly described
science as the search for truth. Science does this by continuously
comparing its theories objectively with evidence in the natural world.
When theories no longer conform to the evidence, they are modified or
rejected in favor of new theories that do conform. In other words,
science constantly tries to prove its assumptions to be false and
rejects implausible explanations. In this way, scientific knowledge
and understanding grow over time. Religious explanations for the
order of things are not science because they are based primarily on
faith and do not subject themselves to be objectively falsified.
Because of this fundamental difference in the approach to
understanding our natural world, the U.S. Supreme Court in effect
decided in 1987 that the Biblically based "creation science" is not a
science and cannot be taught as such in public schools as an
alternative or in addition to the mainstream evolutionary theory of
the biological sciences. However, religious creation stories and the
idea of "intelligent design" can be taught in philosophy, religion, or
history courses.
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/0_0_0/lines_01
Lines of evidence: The science of evolution
At the heart of evolutionary theory is the basic idea that life has
existed for billions of years and has changed over time.
Overwhelming evidence supports this fact. Scientists continue to argue
about details of evolution, but the question of whether life has a
long history or not was answered in the affirmative at least two
centuries ago.
The history of living things is documented through multiple lines of
evidence that converge to tell the story of life through time. In this
section, we will explore the lines of evidence that are used to
reconstruct this story.
These lines of evidence include:
<links>
Fossil evidence
Homologies
Distribution in time and space
Evidence by example
http://www.teachthemscience.org/evidence
Scientists and crime solvers have something in common. They can both
figure out what happened, even if no one was there to see it.
Scientists do the same thing that crime solvers do. They look for
clues. The more clues that were left behind, the more likely they are
to figure it out. If all of the clues point to the same conclusion,
then they know what happened.
Consider the case of the origin of species. There are many thousands
of clues, and they all point to the conclusion that life evolved.
There are so many clues that they fall under multiple disciplines of
science. Each of these disciplines provides a separate line of
evidence for evolution.
>>>Christian faith is a mental illness.
>
>You haven't any idea what a mental illness is....
I gave you the example of Christian faith.
>nor that in fact the term is a misnomer. Thoughts and emotions can't
>be ill - illness is a term for Physical conditions.
Unless its a mental illness.
>What are termed Mental Illnesses were at their height in numbers of
>persons affected ....in the Middle Ages....it was a means to
>categorise persons who hade become overly distressed, an by golly,
>there were some situations then, as in later centuries when some
>persosn did become overly distressed....
That's because they did not have modern medicine and science.
They depended on God.
>and some of the tratments that have been used were enough to keep persons
>in that distressed, distraught and whatever...state of mind.
God seems to enjoy holding back information.
>An Italian doctor invented ECT Shock treatments in 1939, he later withdrew
>his support, (but that was not advertised publically) he has since died.
>
>You are tagging onto a term that has had reasonably high media
>coverage since 1975, when psyciatrists used the media for publicity. I
>am aware of one Psychiatrist who moved to criminal Psychiatry, and
>then became prominent on television, after changes had been made in
>the treatments he had previously given.
>However, Medicine has not always perfect in its treatments, as also in
>Teaching methods change as better means are assessed for treating and
>giving knowledge.
I am surprised you never told me that before. :)
>I would think, Barry, that you are using second-hand knowledge,
>and then only part of it, to make you seem to be a 'Big I Am" in these
>newsgroups. In your schooling you may have been the Class Clown and
>spent some time in the corridor away from other students.
>You have gained some information on computers, how much I cannot
>assess from your postings, and you think tha ttellin gme wha tI should
>do with my computer gives you kudos, that you then can go on and
>further dictate to me.
What do you hope to achieve by refusing to follow societal norms?
You must learn to take responsibility for your own actions.
If you won't use a proper newsreader at least have a talk
to Google support.
>Your Evolution is dead in the water --- has been dead every since it was first proposed.
Not just in the water!!!!! Fossils are in the ground and the rocks!
Fossils are everywhere and tell a wonderful story of life changing
over millions of years.
If you don't like the idea of coming from evolution say so, but
don't pretend it didn't happen.
Real science is a wonderful and truthful thing.
Religion can only lie.
>But the moral level of its advocates was at zero when they introduced
>it tto school children in 1963.
Creationists lowered even their already low standards when they
tried to force religion into science classes. Even after being
rebuffed by the courts they still try to indoctrinate children.
>There is no experimental proof...
>You do not have that proof....otherwise you would have given it to me
>in your previous postings.
http://anthro.palomar.edu/evolve/evolve_3.htm
The Nobel Prize winning scientist Linus Pauling aptly described
science as the search for truth. Science does this by continuously
comparing its theories objectively with evidence in the natural world.
When theories no longer conform to the evidence, they are modified or
rejected in favor of new theories that do conform. In other words,
science constantly tries to prove its assumptions to be false and
rejects implausible explanations. In this way, scientific knowledge
and understanding grow over time. Religious explanations for the
order of things are not science because they are based primarily on
faith and do not subject themselves to be objectively falsified.
Because of this fundamental difference in the approach to
understanding our natural world, the U.S. Supreme Court in effect
decided in 1987 that the Biblically based "creation science" is not a
science and cannot be taught as such in public schools as an
alternative or in addition to the mainstream evolutionary theory of
the biological sciences. However, religious creation stories and the
idea of "intelligent design" can be taught in philosophy, religion, or
history courses.
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/0_0_0/lines_01
Lines of evidence: The science of evolution
At the heart of evolutionary theory is the basic idea that life has
existed for billions of years and has changed over time.
Overwhelming evidence supports this fact. Scientists continue to argue
about details of evolution, but the question of whether life has a
long history or not was answered in the affirmative at least two
centuries ago.
The history of living things is documented through multiple lines of
evidence that converge to tell the story of life through time. In this
section, we will explore the lines of evidence that are used to
reconstruct this story.
These lines of evidence include:
<links>
Fossil evidence
Homologies
Distribution in time and space
Evidence by example
http://www.teachthemscience.org/evidence
Scientists and crime solvers have something in common. They can both
figure out what happened, even if no one was there to see it.
Scientists do the same thing that crime solvers do. They look for
clues. The more clues that were left behind, the more likely they are
to figure it out. If all of the clues point to the same conclusion,
then they know what happened.
Consider the case of the origin of species. There are many thousands
of clues, and they all point to the conclusion that life evolved.
There are so many clues that they fall under multiple disciplines of
science. Each of these disciplines provides a separate line of
evidence for evolution.
>However, I am of thee opinion that the way the Christian faith is
>given, ie sermons from the pulipit with church members whatever their
>ages seated in pews, does not always meet the needs of some of those
>in the pews.
Victims of the mental illness known as Christian faith should be
told the truth that Christianity is fiction.
>And well I know, the problems when a new church building is planned
>and the divisions that can be caused, especially when there was no
>prior consultation.
The fancy churches and dress are necessary to hympnotise the
Christianity's victims into 'seeing' God.
>In such circumstances
>"God is not always with the majority, He can be with the minority,'
God should be with everybody at all times.
It is morally repugnant for a creator to make divisions.
Thank you for once again showing how morally bankrupt
Christianity is.