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[giants73756]

http://house.mo.gov/billtracking/bil...ro/HB1227I.htm

Missouri Bill would mandate the teaching of inteligent design in public universities

174.890. 1. Notwithstanding any other law, any introductory science course taught at any public institution of higher education in this state, including material concerning physics, chemistry, biology, health, physiology, genetics, astronomy, cosmology, geology, paleontology, anthropology, ecology, climatology, or other science topics, shall be standard science. All standard science course materials and instruction shall meet the following criteria:

(1) If empirical data is taught, only such data which has been verified or is currently capable of being verified by observation or experimentation shall be taught. Data with the appearance of empirical data which has never been verified and is currently incapable of being verified shall be identified as nonverifiable when taught orally or in writing;

(2) If scientific law is taught, written textbooks statements identified as scientific law shall have no known exceptions of verified empirical data;

(3) If scientific theory is taught, the theory shall be identified as theory when taught orally or in writing. Empirical data and conjecture may be presented to support taught theory where considered instructive. As used in this subsection, the term "theory" shall mean theory or hypothesis;

(a) If a scientific theory concerning origin or destiny is taught without the teaching of opposing scientific theory, the taught theory may be criticized by the teaching of conflicting empirical data where considered instructive;

(b) If scientific theory concerning biological origin is taught in a course of study, biological evolution and biological intelligent design shall be taught. Other scientific theory or theories of origin may be taught. If biological intelligent design is taught, any proposed identity of the intelligence responsible for earth's biology shall be verifiable by present-day observation or experimentation and teachers shall not question, survey, or otherwise influence student belief in a nonverifiable identity within a science course;

(c) If scientific theory concerning biological origin is taught in a textbook, the textbook shall give equal treatment to biological evolution and biological intelligent design. Other scientific theory or theories of origin may be taught;

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(9) "Scientific theory", an inferred explanation of incompletely understood phenomena about the physical universe based on limited knowledge, whose components are data, logic, and faith-based philosophy. The inferred explanation may be proven, mostly proven, partially proven, unproven or false and may be based on data which is supportive, inconsistent, conflicting, incomplete, or inaccurate. The inferred explanation may be described as a scientific theoretical model;

unbelievable

[gskowal]

Originally Posted by giants73756

http://house.mo.gov/billtracking/bil...ro/HB1227I.htm

Missouri Bill would mandate the teaching of inteligent design in public universities



unbelievable

sick, where is the scientific evidence supporting intelligent design?

[Splendour]

The Salvation Conspiracy: How Hell Became Eternal

By Ken R. Vincent
http://www.christianuniversalist.org...onspiracy.html

Quote:

"At this point, it should be noted that many in the early Church who were Universalist cautioned others to be careful whom they told about Universalism, as it might cause some of the weaker ones to sin. This has always been a criticism of Universalism by those who think that people will sin with abandon if there is no threat of eternal punishment. In fact, modern psychology has affirmed that love is a much more powerful motivator than fear, and knowing that God loves each and every person on the planet as much as God loves you does not promote delinquency. Conversely, it is Christian exclusivity that leads to the marginalization of other human beings and the thinking that war and cruelty to the "other" are justified since they're going to Hell anyway! This kind of twisted thinking led to the persecution of the pagans, the witch hunts, the Inquisition, and the Holocaust.

[Splendour]

The Gospel from a Christian Universalist:

God Never Gives Up -- Not Ever!

By Charles Slagle

http://christianuniversalist.org/art...ergivesup.html

[giants73756]

I thought God was prone to giving up. He have up on humanity when he sent that flood.

[giants73756]

"When People Ask Why I Have a Problem With Religion…"

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/unreaso...with-religion/

[Duncelanas]

I enjoyed this one, although it's a blog post and not an article as such.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...FP8P_blog.html

[Splendour]

Comparing Biblical and Scientific Maps of Origins by Conrad Hyers of Princeton Theological Seminary

"Biblical references to nature were not scientific statements, which then might be said to be in conflict with scientific data, observations, and theories. The Bible uses the common, everyday, universal language of appearances."

http://www.directionjournal.org/article/?1031

[Splendour]

James Fowler’s Stages of Faith in Profile

James Fowler, Ph.D. is a developmental psychologist, a United Methodist layperson, and Director of the Center for Faith Development at Emory University. He is the premiere pioneer of the study of Faith development, and his book Stages of Faith (Harper & Row, 1981) is a ground-breaking classic. His work with Faith research is of great importance to the study of transpersonal psychology in that, he posits, faith (moreso than religion, or belief) “is the most fundamental category in the human quest for relation to transcendence.”

http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/2219.htm

[giants73756]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/us...t.html?_r=3&hp

Student Faces Town’s Wrath in Protest Against a Prayer

[giants73756]

http://gawker.com/5879888/yes-the-ro...w-to-mormonism

Yes, the Romneys Converted Mitt’s Dead Atheist Father-in-Law to Mormonism

[Splendour]

The Science of God—Part 1

http://gods-kingdom-ministries.org/FFI/Latest.cfm

Cleve Backster?
http://www.answers.com/topic/cleve-backster

Connectedness?

Quote: Modern science has begun to verify this basic truth. Quoting from the book The Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukah, the field of atomic physics called quantum mechanics states the following: "…all things in our universe (including us) that appear to exist independently are actually parts of an all-compassing organic pattern, and that no parts of that pattern are ever really separate from it or from each other (p. 48)."

http://www.plim.org/Connectedness.htm

[Splendour]

The Evangelical Censors by Thomas Talbott - Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Willamette University
http://www.thomastalbott.com/censors.html


The Unselfishness of God
And How I Discovered It

By Hannah Whitall Smith
http://www.tentmaker.org/books/unselfishness-of-god.htm

[gskowal]

ANONYMOUS HACKS CHURCH WEB SITES TO POST DAWKINS VIDEO & DECLARE WAR ON CHRISTIANITY

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/anon...-christianity/

[gskowal]

How Christians reconcile their personal political views and the teachings of their faith: Projection as a means of dissonance reduction

http://www.pnas.org/content/109/10/3616.short?rss=1

I'm not surprised, DarkMatter hit the spot with his video of "The Real God: An Epiphany"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j8ZMMuu7MU