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Old 05-01-2009, 03:59 PM   #76
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I'm not sure how a parent could ever come to the conclusion that learning to read isn't in the best interest of the child.
In many countries where womens' rights don't match those of what we have in the West, young girls are denied an education, including being taught how to read.

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The theory of Evolution is like a mathematical formula being developed to explain the origin of life and non life in the absence of a Creator.
That's not at all true. Darwin didn't set out to devise a system where life could exist without being created. He made observations from nature and then formed his theory based on those observations. That theory has then been tested countless times over the last 150+ years, and while the Theory of Evolution has certainly been modified to incorporate new knowledge since Darwin's time, it has yet to be falsified.

Darwin himself was a Christian, fyi. Before embarking on his famous voyage on the HMS Beagle, he studied theology at Cambridge with the goal of becoming a clergyman of the Church of England.

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No you don't. You teach the scientific method and pretend that evolution is undisputably true even though it can't be measured by the scientific method.
No scientist would ever claim that something is "undisputably (sic) true". The scientific method doesn't work that way.

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Questioning certain current scientific understandings will only get you ostricized and labled as a kook.
Yeah, no scientist would ever want to be compared to "kooks" like Galileo and Einstein, each of whom challenged the conventional knowledge of their time.
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