tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32297797.post1288066575618485456..comments2023-10-17T01:06:42.287-04:00Comments on The Quiet Life: Expelled: No Intelligence AllowedElizabeth Pratahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04341086233512507156noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32297797.post-15129108783662376572008-04-16T07:55:00.000-04:002008-04-16T07:55:00.000-04:00Around here there is deep audience interest (Geor...Around here there is deep audience interest (Georgia USA) that it is showing in two separate theaters and they've aded an extra showing, at 10 pm. I am going to the opening on Friday at 1:00.<BR/><BR/>The tv commercial on Discovery is hilarious. Ben is in the back row of a full classroom, the professor is just finishing explaining evolution, and Ben asks, "But, Professor, How did life get here in the <I>first</I> place?"<BR/><BR/>Next scene, he is sitting at the prinicipal's bench. A kid next to him asks, "What did you do?"<BR/><BR/>"I made a movie."<BR/><BR/>Scenes from the movie play, then the kid turns to Ben and says, "That must be some movie."<BR/><BR/>All in deadpan, of course!Elizabeth Pratahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04341086233512507156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32297797.post-66893132291921890272008-04-16T02:15:00.000-04:002008-04-16T02:15:00.000-04:00I'm looking forward to this as well. I just finish...I'm looking forward to this as well. I just finished reading The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. It was an interesting read.Christiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16120883583219857456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32297797.post-19950150590118053832008-04-10T14:48:00.000-04:002008-04-10T14:48:00.000-04:00I fell in love with "all things typography" in col...I fell in love with "all things typography" in college. One of my favorite professors was Ron Arnholm -- he designed fonts back when all the letters were hand drawn.Cathy ~ Tadpoles and Teacupshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00138532109948783736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32297797.post-80536820287749766682008-04-09T18:40:00.000-04:002008-04-09T18:40:00.000-04:00I wonder, would a public school teacher in Harrisb...I wonder, would a public school teacher in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, be allowed to say the following:<BR/><BR/>"It is interesting to contemplate ... [all the many forms of life on earth] ... so different from each other, have all been produced by laws acting around us. ... There is grandeur in this view of life, HAVING BEEN ORIGINALLY BREATHED BY THE CREATOR INTO A FEW FORMS OR INTO ONE; and that from so simple a beginning, endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved."<BR/><BR/>Just imagine a public school teacher who says those words: that God creates life and places it on the earth in a few forms, and then that life evolves according to the physical and natural laws that God put into place in the universe.<BR/><BR/>Would that be allowed?<BR/><BR/>Actually, it should be REQUIRED FOR THE TEACHER TO SAY THAT.<BR/><BR/>Why? Because the quote is from: On the Origin of the Species, Chapter XV, Recapitulation and Conclusion, By Charles Darwin.<BR/><BR/>If you are going to teach Darwin's theory of evolution in public schools, you should teach what Darwin actually wrote about it.<BR/><BR/>****<BR/><BR/>If you believe in God, you really have only two choices:<BR/><BR/>1. God created all life on earth like a carnival magician, or the Amazing Kreskin: a wave of the hands and poof! there was life. That's Creationism. (I dont believe God does his handiwork like a second rate magician.)<BR/><BR/>or...<BR/><BR/>2. God created all the processes, chemistry, mathematics, and physical laws that govern the universe with an end in mind - the creation of life. It's a belief in God as powerful and intelligent on a grand scale. In this belief, evolution IS intelligent design. It's not random, though it may have random elements. The goal was to create man.<BR/><BR/>All of science - everything we have learned so far - leads us to this view. It is not incompatible. I recall that AT&T/Bell Labs scientists won the Nobel Prize for "hearing" the remaining noise of the Big Bang - the origin of the Universe. But what they couldn't answer - an no scientist can yet answer - is where did the original matter come from, and how did life get breathed into it?<BR/><BR/>Einstein proved that space and time are related, and postulated that the Universe is finite. What is beyond the finite universe? What is its purpose?<BR/><BR/>I am an engineer by training, and have always enjoyed science and scientific inquiry. I believe that scientific inquiry only leads to one thing: the discovery and understanding of the rules of the Universe - how God decided the Universe would work.<BR/><BR/>That leaves us one question: Why?<BR/><BR/>And THAT is the right question.<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/>Michael S. Class<BR/>Author<BR/><BR/>Anthony and the Magic Picture Frame: The History Book with a Message for Today's Young Americans<BR/><BR/>Read the book. Remember the truth. Share it with your children.<BR/><BR/>Web Site: www.MagicPictureFrame.com<BR/><BR/>-----------------------Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com