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Order does or doesn't require intelligent direction H3LL Originally Posted by Teach The Controversy in science class.



This is in no way meant to be a definitive guide but will positively expand science education in our schools and leave sufficient time for, say, a short daily prayer session in the average school's week.



One whole half-hour period per term should be set aside to discuss the merits of bananas, the amazing fact that there are still monkeys and that watches don't breed quite like they should do.



Critics have argued that this will leave little time for mundane subjects such a the 3 R's or history, but fail to appreciate the massive increase in religious revenue (the industry for the new millennium).







TEACH THE CONTROVERSY CURRICULUM SUGGESTIONS



INTELLIGENT DESIGNERS IN BRIEF:



Vahiguru planned for a really, really long time in darkness and then came up with busting an egg to make everything. Mbombo vomits all creation into existence following a bad stomach ache. The Maasai have all people descended from the first three fathers made from sticks. Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva give us no beginning whatsoever. Probably best to skip quickly past this one along with Jainism and Ptah. Inktomi, a spider, cause a rift between the sun and the moon, making the Earth in between. He scuttled off to the underworld to fetch mankind and let them know how great it was up above. The four divisions of Mangala who started creation with a seed, didn't like it so Etch-a-Sketched it and tried again. His dual-sexed twins were not gay. The 7,000 coils of Damballah who married a rainbow. We can get some good opportunities for geography lessons with this one. Obatala's umbilical-chord, rooster, iron and palm kernel give us an interesting start to everything. People and cattle (do we need more) were created in the beginning by Unkulunkulu. Buddha is rather vague but opens up endless possibilities. Kamui behind a giant metal wall created the world as huge, round ocean resting on the back of a giant trout. As we know, people were made from earth, hair of chickweed, and spines made from sticks of willow. Whatever was thought of by Tepeu and Gucamatz came into being. Short, simple and to the point. A water beetle, Dayuni'si, was disappointed that there was no land so explored below the water (all there was), found some mud and made the land. An, Enlil, Enki and Ninhursanga did all the creating stuff and threw some kings down to make cities. They rather cleverly threw in a world flood to add some excitement. Ra rose from an egg to create everything. The old egg tale gets a bit stale so you might want to go with the alternative blue lotus beginning. Con Tiqui Viracocha rose out of Lake Titicaca bringing people with him and the went about doing the sun, the moon and the stars. He made some more people, including pre-pregnant women, from some rocks. The Hmong know that the Earth was once all dead apart from a brother and sister hiding in a drum. We owe our existence to disregard for incest conventions. Marduk, a clever negotiator, gets the top job by destroying Tiamat and making the world from the bits left over. Her husband, Kingu, supplied the blood to make people to work for the gods as they're all tired out and resting from the scrap. JoMulJu created everything in the universe. People are from a bear that had remarkable control of hunger pains; unlike tigers. Ahura Mazda (nothing to do with cars) made 16 lands to start everything off. Angra Mainyu tried to spoil everything and created all the horrible stuff like hair left in shower plug-holes etc. One of the more accurate accounts is from the Mansi where two loons grew the Earth from some crap they found at the bottom of the ocean. sadly, people are the rather dull clay figurines chestnut. The persuasive techniques of Udan got everything started. Unfortunately the 99 golden column holding up the sky are rather hard to find. Scientific expeditions to look have been proposed. Coatlique had sex with obsidian knives and balls of feathers to create all sorts of trouble and fighting between her children. We got creation in the end so it ended happily. The three suns that baked and hardened the, then liquid, Earth led Hadau to shoot two down just at the right time. Lucky us. A raven found men in a clam and women in a chiton. Amused by what they got up to, he looks after us all thereafter. The god Izanagi and goddess Izanami stirred the ocean with a spear and made the land from salt. It all gets a bit fuzzy from there as everything "just is". The mother of Ten Thousand Things, the void Tao, gives us the, rather wonderful, Cosmic Egg. Gaea, Tartarus, Eros, Nyx and Erebus boing out of Chaos to give is everything. In the gap between fire and ice we got Eiter, which formed the bodies of the hermaphrodite giant Ymir and the cow Auðumbla, which, despite there being no bull gave milk to Ymir. Well sustained Ynir started construction. The breaking of a giant egg gave us the heavens and the Earth and a place for Väinämöinen, the offspring of air and sea and the first person. Creating the world and the first people from a lonely masturbation by Atum might make for some uncomfortable explanations for younger children. Remember thought that this is science and facts are facts. We have good old Genesis for any of the Abrahamic gods. A large subject that we suggest has several weeks of intensive study. Not very original but Esaugetuh Emissee created people from mud on the only hill. The Earth always existed but was a desolate plain populated by dormant supernatural beings until the Dream Time.

We at the Creation Indoctrination Institute and the Campaign for Understanding Natural Truth in Science invite further additions and comments to Teach The Controversy.



Thank you. As Intelligent Design thrusts ahead with startling evidence we put together the current requirements toin science class.This is in no way meant to be a definitive guide but will positively expand science education in our schools and leave sufficient time for, say, a short daily prayer session in the average school's week.One whole half-hour period per term should be set aside to discuss the merits of bananas, the amazing fact that there are still monkeys and that watches don't breed quite like they should do.Critics have argued that this will leave little time for mundane subjects such a the 3 R's or history, but fail to appreciate the massive increase in religious revenue (the industry for the new millennium).INTELLIGENT DESIGNERS IN BRIEF:We at the Creation Indoctrination Institute and the Campaign for Understanding Natural Truth in Science invite further additions and comments toThank you. H3LL, I love this. In my opinion, you are a Superstar! All of these various cultures, religions, belief systems, wow, you did a great job. How did it all get started? The Big Bang? Even the brightest minds can only guess about all this, right?



I still can't get anyone from the "non-intelligence", mechanistic/materialistic evolution side of the argument to give me a reasonable explanation for their belief that such things as DNA didn't require any intelligent direction?



I don't care about all the organized religions, government education policies, etc. I'm not even asking anyone to classify this directing form of intelligence as God. Just tell me why ORDER doesn't require intelligent direction.



The reason people use the example of a dis-assembled wrist watch reassembling itself, without intelligent direction is because it points out the insanity of the evolution without intelligent direction argument.



I bless you with love and joy. H3LL, I love this. In my opinion, you are a Superstar! All of these various cultures, religions, belief systems, wow, you did a great job. How did it all get started? The Big Bang? Even the brightest minds can only guess about all this, right?I still can't get anyone from the "non-intelligence", mechanistic/materialistic evolution side of the argument to give me a reasonable explanation for their belief that such things as DNA didn't require any intelligent direction?I don't care about all the organized religions, government education policies, etc. I'm not even asking anyone to classify this directing form of intelligence as God. Just tell me why ORDER doesn't require intelligent direction.The reason people use the example of a dis-assembled wrist watch reassembling itself, without intelligent direction is because it points out the insanity of the evolution without intelligent direction argument.I bless you with love and joy.