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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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 Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 5:06 pm Post subject: |
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| rollo wrote: |
| Thank you for the invitation!!! It is kind of you that you think i would fit in. |
Just please don't give the victory sign. Or at least have the good sense to have your palm facing outward. Do the opposite on a Friday night, and you'll soon discover what I mean. 
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| Are there any believers in creationism in the U.k. or is it just an American idiocy? |
England has a good sprinkling of them somewhere, I'm sure.
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| I hope I dont stand out too much, since I have a good set of teeth, a strong chin and a full head of hair. |
Sounds rather like a donkey. |
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blade
Joined: 30 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 6:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Evolution of course. But I was educated before nutcases fabricated creationism. I have a question Big Bird. Is sience actually taught in U.k schools? I was under the impression since Britain invents nothing and achieves nothing in science that except for a few oxford Dons it had been abandoned. Now I believe it is the U.S. that usually sweeps the science Nobels that has a mars rover, space program, mapped the human genome, invented airplane, internet, lightbulb, so forth that it would be Americans who would be asking questions of the British about their edicational policies. |
Actually the UK is way ahead in terms of the number of noble prices it's citizens have won as proportion of population compared with the USA i.e. the UK has 1.65451 Nobel prices per 1 million people while the USA has only 0.912983 Nobel prices per 1 million people. |
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ED209
Joined: 17 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 7:00 pm Post subject: |
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I wasn't taught creationism in the science classroom. Though I did learn various creation myths in Religious Studies. I was simply taught that 'group X believe Y happened'. As for evolution, I can only remember learning about it from documentaries and an excellent talk Dawkins did once for the Royal Christmas Lectures, not at school.
Creationism is being taught at schools in the UK. This is the one criticism of 'Faith' schools. I think, you can find some interesting interviews in Dawkins' 'Root of All Evil', though it could have been 'Enemies of Reason'. Also in the 'Genius of Darwin', http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw-Xh2XOpk4 |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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| Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 2:08 am Post subject: |
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| blade wrote: |
| rollo wrote: |
| Evolution of course. But I was educated before nutcases fabricated creationism. I have a question Big Bird. Is sience actually taught in U.k schools? I was under the impression since Britain invents nothing and achieves nothing in science that except for a few oxford Dons it had been abandoned. Now I believe it is the U.S. that usually sweeps the science Nobels that has a mars rover, space program, mapped the human genome, invented airplane, internet, lightbulb, so forth that it would be Americans who would be asking questions of the British about their edicational policies. |
Actually the UK is way ahead in terms of the number of noble prices it's citizens have won as proportion of population compared with the USA i.e. the UK has 1.65451 Nobel prices per 1 million people while the USA has only 0.912983 Nobel prices per 1 million people. |
Hilarious. rollo gets another fail. |
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RJjr
Joined: 17 Aug 2006
Location: Turning on a Lamp
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| Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 3:07 am Post subject: |
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Creationism. It's probably why people here consider Jews to be "God's Chosen People" and want to give so much of the US Treasury to Israel and to a lesser extent the bankers.
We're not unlike the Aztecs who worshipped the Spanish and pissed away the future of their children by giving the Spanish the gold and silver. |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 6:21 am Post subject: |
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I do not recall.
"Evolution" did not become an issue for me until grad school. And then we studied and discussed the debates between those who argued for a long, slow, incremental process vs. those who argued for "punctuated equilibria."
Ian Tattersall's book, Becoming Human, made an impression. |
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lithium
Joined: 18 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 8:05 pm Post subject: Re: Were you taught Creationism or Evolution at school? |
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Are the US creationists winning the battle of the school curriculum? |
I hope so. |
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lithium
Joined: 18 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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Creationism. It's probably why people here consider Jews to be "God's Chosen People" and want to give so much of the US Treasury to Israel and to a lesser extent the bankers.
We're not unlike the Aztecs who worshipped the Spanish and pissed away the future of their children by giving the Spanish the gold and silver. |
Nazi |
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Biblethumper
Joined: 15 Dec 2007
Location: Busan, Korea
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| Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 4:12 am Post subject: |
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| Evolution was exclusively taught in the public schools of my youth, but it was you learn at home that matters anyways. |
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