Does Evolution Require Spreading The Word?

we tried dismissing creationism. but it doesn't work. they have more and more converts every year.there is no debate about whether or not evolution happens, and how it explains the diversity of life on this planet, in the scientific community. biologists just as easily dismiss these kind of claims. only because creationists are trying to get their distortions into schools, and taught as science. imagine a group came out that insisted that arithmetic was just faith, and 10+10=30. they tried to get this idea into schools by promoting that we "teach the controversy" etc.why would it be neccessary to debate these fools?

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what field of math are you in, nwr? my father is a graph theorist, and i grew up in the math department of the local university. i attend an international conference on graph theory, combinatorics, and computing every year at the university... (i'd find it really funny if i actually knew you outside of evc...) my father was particularly offended by a recent bill that was passed that said that professor were not allowed to ridicule the beliefs of their students, even by means of a line of questions.that's right, here in florida, they outlawed the socratic method. there goes the foundation of all knowledge. and people wonder why we're on the defensive...Edited by arachnophilia, : typo

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ironically, mathematics is the only true faith. if you remove the fundamental principles of arithmetic, everything else falls too. we could deduce arithmetic -- but there'd be nothing left to deduce it from.

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ok, i've heard the religious line before.but messianic? how so?

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ah, ok, thanks for the clarification.

all i remember from chemistry is:

quote:

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Johnny was a chemist, but Johnny is no more.
What he thought was H₂O was H₂SO₄!

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clinton did it too!

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