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Dude
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 Posted - 04/26/2005 : 23:11:00
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7644056/
The flatulent sounds of the ID jackasses, and all of their jackassery, will be heard in Kansas for 6 days before the board announces its decision to ban evolution from biology and science classrooms again. What? You think the conclusion isn't already forgone?
At a minimum, I predict, you will see some requirement to teach "alternatives" to evolution in the public schools.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
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Starman
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Posted - 04/27/2005 : 00:43:18 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dude
At a minimum, I predict, you will see some requirement to teach "alternatives" to evolution in the public schools.
And more lawsuits at taxpayer expense.
Wonder why there are so many lawyers in the ID crowd. Maybe they just need more business?
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 04/27/2005 : 05:18:22 [Permalink]
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Actually, it is evolution in a wrong-side-of-the-blanket sort of way. The ID and 6 Day gibberers can only reproduce their philosophies through recruitment. Those philosophies themselves, by their very natures, can never evolve, therefore, new blood in the form young, scientific cretins must be gathered to perpetuate their ignorance, lest it become as extinct as Cotton Mather.
Let 'em put their silliness in. The backlash of parents concerned for the education of their children, will hurt them more than if they fail in their attempt. Not to mention the laughter of the civilized world aimed at them and the idiot school board.
Me, I support the scientists boycotting this nonsense. They have more important things to do, and, as it is said, "A lesson half-learned is a lesson to be taught again."
This time, let that school board learn the whole, fucking thing!
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"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
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Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
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Maverick
Skeptic Friend
Sweden
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Posted - 04/28/2005 : 13:03:58 [Permalink]
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| I don't understand why this is even an issue in a nation that is in a leading position when it comes to science. Creationism is religion. ID is religion without religion, so it's just vacuum. |
"Life is but a momentary glimpse of the wonder of this astonishing universe, and it is sad to see so many dreaming it away on spiritual fantasy." -- Carl Sagan |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 04/28/2005 : 15:42:11 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Maverick
I don't understand why this is even an issue in a nation that is in a leading position when it comes to science. Creationism is religion. ID is religion without religion, so it's just vacuum.
It is a sympton of a social illness. We are too complacent to put the Religious Right back in the churches where they belong, and keep them there.
It is why AiG emigrated from Australia. Easy pickings.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 04/28/2005 : 15:57:37 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Maverick
I don't understand why this is even an issue in a nation that is in a leading position when it comes to science. Creationism is religion. ID is religion without religion, so it's just vacuum.
Blame lazy thinkers.
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 04/28/2005 : 16:21:31 [Permalink]
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Blame lazy thinkers.
That would be the large majority of US citizens.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Maverick
Skeptic Friend
Sweden
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Posted - 04/29/2005 : 23:36:43 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
It is a sympton of a social illness. We are too complacent to put the Religious Right back in the churches where they belong, and keep them there.
It is why AiG emigrated from Australia. Easy pickings.
If we could make these people realise that religion does not belong anywhere near science (except when their claims are being tested in a scientific way, not that it matters to their faith anyway...) and that it should never be called science, etc., then all problems regarding this would go away.
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Randy
Blame lazy thinkers.
Perhaps some of them. But a lot of creationists seem to be creationists simply because they like their story better than others. |
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