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Atheists & Agnostics

deucemagnet

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6. I suspected it would be something like this.

Reply to nil desperandum (Reply #4)

Fri May 8, 2015, 09:23 AM

May 2015

I sometimes get a Sunday school definition of "theory" when grading tests, even after I've explained that in the scientific sense, a theory is an explanation of a phenomenon that has been supported by lots of evidence over the years, never disproved, and generally accepted as true, and given examples (Cell Theory, Heliocentric Theory, etc.). Of course, when I get a Sunday school definition, I mark it wrong. I suppose that makes me anti-Christian, according to Fox and Friends.

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I'm gonna go out on a limb, here, and guess that maybe it was a biology or natural history course. Warren DeMontague May 2015 #1

That's the thing.... WillParkinson May 2015 #2

Those comments, ugh Cartoonist May 2015 #3

Interestingly, nil desperandum May 2015 #4

I should have added nil desperandum May 2015 #5

I suspected it would be something like this. deucemagnet May 2015 #6

Indeed it does nil desperandum May 2015 #7

Well you know, non-overlapping magisteria is a handy way deucemagnet May 2015 #8

Seriously? No student should be required to do anything they don't want to do??? Curmudgeoness May 2015 #9

This is just nuts.. these people are nuts. mountain grammy May 2015 #10