Fairness In Religions In School

Are we really going to allow CRE teachers to pretend that they understand the origins of life on Earth when the Bible is so obviously full of mistakes ? How can we tolerate allowing children to be so grossly misinformed by these clowns ? The process of education needs to be protected from these demented american fundamentalist wanna-bes.

I can’t believe that this snake oil salesman was caught in the old “2nd law of thermodynamics” canard. (this creationist misrepresentation has been debunked so many times it’s ridiculous) If you want to know more about this charlatan, see here.

http://www.noanswersingenesis.org.au/dr_jonathan_sarfati.htm

I love how he attempts to establish that “kinds” are different to species (organisms exhibiting the ability to produce viable offspring) when even the bible dictates that to be a kind it must be able to “reproduce after its own kind”.

Please Dr Sarfati, explain why there are thousands of endogenous retroviral fragments in exact same positions on the chromosomes of supposedly unrelated organisms. When you map the patterns of these ERVs, you get a match to the phylogentic hierarchy (map of the links between us all which demonstrate common ancestory) predicted by evolutionary theory. Is this God’s little joke to simply make it look as if everything has evolved from a common ancestors?

It’s laughable how he says that natural selection is not a creative force but fails to note that genetic variation (which natural selection works on) is.

It is so scary that this non-biologist is being used as an authority on biology in religious education.

I would recommend any parent to add this link to their favourites,

An index to creationist claims.
http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/

DJ

This was disgusting and disturbing to watch. An absolute butchering of scientific fact and truth.

Here’s a short documentary on the Ark:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixga38W-_4k

In the future, if my child is exposed to someone like this in school, I will have lost any and all respect for the education system for allowing someone to attempt to poison future generations.

The fact that CRE training and a meeting challenging evolution may have been held at the same venue (months apart) does not suggest that the two are linked in any way. To make this illogical suggestion is disingenuous and does not serve the FIRIS cause. Sensible debate on this issue is important, but this is simply slander-by-association.

@Scott
Peddle sarcasm if that’s your wish. The facts are that CRE training uses churches as venues: there is not necessarily any direct association between the congregation and the training that takes place. You may even notice in the original post that Werribee as a training venue was “to be confirmed”. I find creationism as distateful and illogical as anyone, but I also don’t think that FIRIS is served in any way by drawing a long bow to relate to events that happen to be held (perhaps) at the same venue. Sounds more like spinning propaganda than engaging in genuine educational (and educated) debate.