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BIOLOGY! I'm taking bio this year. I'm loving it right now! All the terms are a little confusing though... :o)
P.S. About to take a test! Wish me luck! Hahaha
submitted by Grace, age 13, SC
(September 17, 2009 - 8:45 am)
(September 17, 2009 - 8:45 am)
Yes, that's it. I like the style it's written I think. I found a website called flashcard machine, it's really helpful for those vocabulary words.
(September 22, 2009 - 10:00 am)
Biology is biology -- cells and ecosystems and living organisms and dissecting and fun stuff like that. But yes, evolution theory is being pushed into more and more of it. My teacher is a Christian/goes to my church (small towns FTW). So, Sundays/outside of school/in football (he's also the football coach) he'd urge the Christian kids to please speak up and give evidence to the contrary to evolution because the school administration forced him to teach it. He always stressed that it was just a theory that a staggering number of people somewhat blindly swore by, though.
Moral of the story: speak out against evolution in Biology class, because even if the teacher's religious/doesn't believe evolution, he's probably not allowed to talk about all the holes in the theory, so their only chance to talk about said flaws are if you bring it up, 'kay?
(September 21, 2009 - 4:50 pm)
Oohhhh, no, hang on. Sorry to contradict you, TNO(umlaut), but don't do that. Here's the best way I've heard. Don't start contradicting or arguing with your teacher. They may or may not beleive in God, but the likelyhood is, the beleive Evolution, so you don't want to risk it; you won't convinc them. I heard this from a speaker at a camp I went to. So, if your teacher starts talking about Evolution, you can ask them questions. Things that will help unravel how ridiculous and hopeless the theory really is. Here are some good ones:
1. What do you mean by what you are saying?
2. How do you know what you are saying is true?
3. If you are right, what does that mean?
4.What if you are wrong about what you are saying?
These four questions are supposed to do a lot. (Though I've never tried them out.) Science is studying God's amazing creation. Something I once heard is, if someone says you can't consider God in a science class, they are writing their own rules.
(September 23, 2009 - 12:19 am)
But what if God is doing the evolution? The way the world was in the begining worked, but maybe He thought of new things, ways to make what He did better, and gently started changing things.
Just an idea... don't bite my head off.
(September 23, 2009 - 12:49 pm)
Don't worry, I won't bite your head off. :) The problem there, as I see it, though is, God is perfect and all-knowing. He doesn't come up with an idea, then think of something better, because if He did there would have been a time when He thought something was perfect and it wasn't, or when He wasn't able to come up with a good enough idea. Anyway, doesn't it say in the Bible, as God makes each thing, he declares it, "Very Good"? If it wasn't "Very Good" yet, He wouldn't declare it as such.
Anyhow, that's my reasoning on the subject.
(September 23, 2009 - 5:45 pm)
Speaking of the so called "fossil evidence" for evolution, might I throw in my two cents/Epileptic Trees theory?
I like to think that God (being a rather funny sort of God (we have senses of humor, we're made in His image, it follows that He has a sense of humor, too, right?)) randomly decided to make skeletons out of rock and mess with our heads a bit.
It would be like this great, huge, universe-wide practical joke. We're talking *epic*.
(September 23, 2009 - 10:22 pm)
Interesting... I have heard people talk about God's sense of humor. But the problem is that, if all fossils are part of a joke, dinosaurs would have never existed. So then, what about Behemoth, the dinosaur in the Bible?
You might be interested in knowing that there are other theories besides Evolution and millions of years to explain fossils. The Global Flood (Noah's Flood), for instance, as described in Genesis. A worldwide catastrophe like that could really be responsible for creating fossils like there are today. Almost every time scientists find a fossil they say something like, "This dinosaur was buried by a volcano," or "this dinosaur was killed in a mudslide," or in one place, "Water once flowed forcefully through this channel, sweeping the dinosaurs into a cave to their deaths."
Even that new "transitional" monkey fossil, Ida, (lemur! lemur!) was drowned in a tar pit. It seems reasonable to me.
(September 24, 2009 - 5:37 pm)
I am taking biology this year, but using a college level text book (I think it was my brother's in his first year), because that's the only one we could find in the house, and it's better than the one the school supplied. I am still just learning about populations and communities, and the seven things that classify living things as living and such, but I do love science.
(September 24, 2009 - 10:08 am)
Ha. Good reasoning. I would how Mrs. K would react to me bringing something like that up in science... "Ever consider that maybe God just created giant fake skeletons to pull the wool over our eyes?"
Seriously though, do you not believe in dinosaurs or is that just an idea?
On evolution, I believe in evolution. I believe in creation too, though. (Be silly *not* to believe in evolution...)
(September 24, 2009 - 2:42 pm)
No, no, I mean I believe dinosaurs existed (they're mentioned in the Bible after all). And I'm sure there're real fossils, but I can *just see* God thinking, h'm, maybe I'll make a skeleton of an animal that NEVER EXISTED and put it in the ground and have a laugh at these humans.
Eh?
Oddly enough, Pratchett's Creator seemed to agree with this theory. It's odd, because I've been thinking that for years and then I started reading Discworld and saw the mention of fake fossils and went, "...wait."
(September 24, 2009 - 6:59 pm)
Great minds think alike? ;)
(September 25, 2009 - 2:35 pm)
Ohhhh, you mean some of them. H'm.
(September 25, 2009 - 3:40 pm)
On evolution: I believe in evolution, but only on a mild level. I think that God can change an animal or plant's features so that it's easier for them to survive, and possibly turn them into a new species if necessary, but I don't believe in reptiles turning into mammals, or monkeys morphing into humans, because of the things the Bible specifically says against those theories. According to Genesis, He created the plants, then the fish and birds, then the mammals, etc. I also believe that most of the more major evolutionary steps (not very major, but more so than we see nowadays) happened more towards the beginning of the world. However, God is still a creator, and I think He's still capable of making changes.
The Bible also said that Earth was created in 6 days, but how do you know that the '6 days' were 6 literal Earth days? The Bible says that a day in heaven is a thousand years on Earth, so it could've been 6,000 years! Or, what if the usage of 'day on Earth' meant the length of a day all over the world? With all the different time zones, that would be at least twice as much! And since God is all-knowing, there might be some other way for it to have taken even longer that we just aren't wise enough to think of!
Yes, God said it was Very Good, and it was. But now that humans are meddling with all the animals' and plants' habitats, life that was once perfectly adapted to it's environment now has trouble adjusting. Some of those life forms go extinct, but if all of them did, the Earth would be almost empty! So don't you think God might have to step in sometimes and change things a little bit?
Please don't take offense. I'm just stating my opinion.
(October 3, 2009 - 3:55 pm)