Decades After Scopes And The Asses Still Want Mythology Taught As Fact!!!

[DistressedAmerican]

When are these wack jobs going to figure out that they have lost? Evolution is king!
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7736155/

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The evolution of a fight to the end
In Kansas, God and science are going toe to toe again

By Alex Johnson
Reporter
MSNBC
Updated: 8:11 p.m. ET May 4, 2005

Defenders of Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection are boycotting four days of hearings — beginning Thursday — over the science curriculum in Kansas, where the state Board of Education is made up of a majority of conservatives critical of what they see as errors in the standard theory.

Mainstream science organizations spurned invitations to participate, dismissing the hearings as an effort “to attack and undermine science,” in the view of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which publishes the journal Science.

The hearings, which run through Saturday and resume again on May 12, will resemble a trial. Three school board members will hear arguments from witnesses on both sides. The panelists — all three of whom have said they have doubts about evolution — will report to the full school board, which is expected to approve new science standards next month.

-Much more at the link-

[mopaul]

1. beating a dead horse

certain people are offended by truth and science, which they see as a direct attack on their faith. fuck certain people

[mopaul]

2. keep your scientific truths out of my mythologies!!!

quit pissing on my mythological parade!

[mopaul]

3. the battle continues here in kansas

fucking hicks and hayseeds with blinders on.

[mopaul]

4. Creationism versus Evolution in schools next on wash. journal

[mopaul]

7. teaching both would be a cave in, and creationism would win.

[SweetLeftFoot]

5. They didn't lose

they are just wrong. There was never fight - only in their minds. It's sort of like running headlong into a brick wall fifty times and then saying, once your face is covered in blood, "Well, I lost but it was a good fight".

[mopaul]

6. I REFUSE to believe in the THEORY of gravity..

...he said, hovering just inches above my head...

[DistressedAmerican]

11. Actually I'm Pretty Sure Fundies Have No Issues With Gravity

There is in fact a large monument to gravity on the campus of Wheaton Bible College. Which is part of the massive Billy Graham Center.

It is the oddest thing. A large granite block half sunk into the ground like it fell out of the sky and landed there.

Tried to google it and get an image. No dice.

Did find a paper by one of the profs there calles "Gravity: Rediscovering God's Weights and Measures".

[kliljedahl]

8. These idiots don't know the definition

of a scientific theory:

A set of statements or principles devised to explain a group of facts or phenomena, especially one that has been repeatedly tested or is widely accepted and can be used to make predictions about natural phenomena.

I can't think of any way to repeatedly test "intelligent design."
Let me see their research & published data.


Keith’s Barbeque Central

[FreedomAngel82]

20. Exactly

Nobody, I know of, has tried to prove this design. So why are they pushing for it? Until they can prove there is something to it it'll always be seen as mythology. I'm Christian and even I know that! Good grief.

[mopaul]

9. secularists are threatening to take our bibles!

lord save us from the logical secularists!

[slor]

10. A dumb populace is easier to...

manipulate. This is all part of the right-wing desire to turn this country into a cheap labor market.

[DistressedAmerican]

12. Public School Curiccula Approved By The Dept. Of Orthodoxy!

A better argument for home schooling I could not conceive!!!

What pisses me off is that it sounds like these revisionist freaks are actually getting some traction!!!

[DistressedAmerican]

13. kick!

:kick:

[DistressedAmerican]

14. Kicker!

[MazeRat7]

15. Notes on Policy and Legal Issues Concerning "Intelligent Design Theory"

I found this page I thought was a good read....

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/intelligentdesign.html

MZr7

[MisterP]

16. I think God has little to do with this; God's just a bludgeon

to the fundies

[Big Lebowski]

17. This "trial" is a farce

The school board members who are judging it are all anti-evolution. They're just holding this "trial" so they'll have an excuse for putting religion in schools. They'll say they gave evolution a fair shake. Then the creationist movement will use this victory to enhance its own credibility elsewhere. It's really a travesty, and something has to be done about it.

[DistressedAmerican]

18. I Completely Agree. Pure Play Acting Before Ramming Their Religion

into the public schools! It is just one more sign of the ever growing religious intollerance and extremism in our country!

[FreedomAngel82]

21. You got it

It's very true. Just like Bush and the 9/11 Commission.

[FreedomAngel82]

19. They'll never give it up

Sadly. Right now they're all high on power so they're trying again. These people always want to make me scream.