Academic Freedom Day Video Entry

NOTE: I am currently trying to upload a high-quality version to YouTube, which should be up by tonight (Feb. 12).

Entry for the Academic Freedom Day Video Contest.

Video by: Sam Rodgers
Research by: Christie McKitrick/Sam Rodgers

--Further Bibliogrphy Info--
God, The Universe, and Everything Else. Hector Stewart, Kulter Video. Arthur C. Clarke, Stephen Hawking, Magnus Magnusson.

One Voice in the Cosmic Fugue. Cosmos. Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan. PBS, 1980.

Giraffe Acquired Characteristics Example Drawing:
Beaumont, Rosalie de. SparkNote on Evolution and Lamarck. 28 Jan. 2009 http://www.sparknotes.com/biology/evolution/lamarck

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[NomadSoul76]

"Explain how these concepts are relevant to this discussion. "

There is about as much evidence in favor of geocentrism as there is intelligent design.

I'm sorry, but it's the truth. That is why ID is being pushed on students, because it's failed in the scientific community.

We went through the same thing with scientific creationism in the 80s, which left us with Edwards V Aguillard, and the current clear precedent forbidding the teaching of creationism in the science room.

[th3n3d99]

your probably wondering why there is so much negative feedback to your video beleive me its not everyone else it's you, YOUR AN IDIOT

the experiment did not prove that the theory of acquired characteristics is not valid u would have experiment over 100's of years to positively prove it wrong

there may have been a slight history built around the tooth but everyone makes mistakes and this dose not outweigh the overwhelming evidence pro evolution

[UmbrellamanBand]

It's a YouTube comment, not English class. Let's deal with the content. You don't capitalize all of the beginnings of your sentences. But, as I said, this is a YouTube comment. Thus, it doesn't matter.

[SatanicMurderer]

let's see here... arrogance*, persisted*, persists*, persist*, than*, genius*. You sir, speak like a hillbilly. please go back to school. Thank you.

[thealchemist1111]

You have to concede that Einstein's Theory of Relativity did not have a movement to insert it into public schools at grades 9-12. Instead his ideas were distrubited throughout the schientific community and peer reviewed. Eddington observed light bending with his own eye, these photographic plates are on display.

Bypassing this method for ID Theory (never in the history of Science has this happened) appeals to your sense of freedom and fairness how?

[UmbrellamanBand]

Traits passed onto offspring and controlled by DNA, which does not change over an organism's lifetime due to any traits which are acquired or lost. If I had my arm cut off, my children would still be born with arms, as my DNA does not change.

[UmbrellamanBand]

I don't think you understand what the idea of acquired characteristics is. Acquired characteristics predicts things such as: if a father works out and gains muscles, then his child will be born with muscles. Or If a mother is extremely tan, then the child will also be tan.

Things which are "acquired" over one's lifetime are passed onto the offspring. Weismann was the first to disprove this by showing that an acquired trait of the mice (absence of a tail) is not passed onto offspring.

[UmbrellamanBand]

Actually there is so much negative feedback because of the very point this video is making. There is an intolerance to any idea other than evolution in much of the current academia.

I am a bit confused by your reaction to the acquired characteristics example. Are you aware it is not believed (even by evolutionists) anymore, in much the same way spontaneous generation is not believed anymore (though evolution requires a type of it to start life).

[TheHonestTheist]

woh, slow it down their egg head! Can you put that in layman's terms for me? It's far to intelligent and elequent for us simpltons to understand!

[TheHonestTheist]

It's a crying shame that the arrogence of man has pursisted throughout all of history and pursits until today and will pursist into the future. It is part of our nature unfortunately, we like to think we know a lot more then we actually do. Only those with open minds truly learn. Like when Albert Einstein went against the mainstream and made time relative instead of absolute, the guy was a genious. Why? Because he wasn't so sure of what people claimed to know.