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Texas & Georgia legislators go batshit

Snuckles
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February 14, 2007 - 9:16am
 

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Snuckles
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February 14, 2007 - 9:16am
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What do they put in the water down there?

quote:AUSTIN – The second most powerful member of the Texas House has circulated a Georgia lawmaker's call for a broad assault on teaching of evolution.

House Appropriations Committee Chairman Warren Chisum, R-Pampa, used House operations Tuesday to deliver a memo from Georgia state Rep. Ben Bridges.

The memo assails what it calls "the evolution monopoly in the schools."

Mr. Bridges' memo claims that teaching evolution amounts to indoctrinating students in an ancient Jewish sect's beliefs.

"Indisputable evidence – long hidden but now available to everyone – demonstrates conclusively that so-called 'secular evolution science' is the Big Bang, 15-billion-year, alternate 'creation scenario' of the Pharisee Religion," writes Mr. Bridges, a Republican from Cleveland, Ga. He has argued against teaching of evolution in Georgia schools for several years.

He then refers to a Web site, www.fixedearth.com, that contains a model bill for state Legislatures to pass to attack instruction on evolution as an unconstitutional establishment of religion.

Mr. Bridges also supplies a link to a document that describes scientists Carl Sagan and Albert Einstein as "Kabbalists" and laments "Hollywood's unrelenting role in flooding the movie theaters with explicit or implicit endorsement of evolutionism."

Read it here.

Fixed Earth is a geocentrist website, exposing the ". . .Copernican and Darwinian Myths". Wow, they make the Time Cube guy look sane.


dgrollins
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February 14, 2007 - 9:25am
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quote:Originally posted by Snuckles:
What do they put in the water down there?

Jesus.


Frustrated Mess
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February 14, 2007 - 1:22pm
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Have we started digging a huge freaking moat along the border, yet (and let's get rid of our own neo-cons while we are at it)?

[ 14 February 2007: Message edited by: Frustrated Mess ]


BetterRed
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February 14, 2007 - 3:17pm
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Copernican and Darwinian Myths"...

Holy...
Copernicus peddled us a bunch of myths>?
Therefore, the Earth REALLY is FLAT!!!!!


greenie
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February 14, 2007 - 3:36pm
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quote:Originally posted by BetterRed:
Copernican and Darwinian Myths"...

Holy...
Copernicus peddled us a bunch of myths>?
Therefore, the Earth REALLY is FLAT!!!!!

Hehe.. I do appreciate the irony of your post. A post that ridicules people for labeling Copernicus and Darwin's work as myths, itself propagates another myth!

People of the Middle Ages didn't believe in a flat earth. It is a common misconception though. I believe Copernicus is known for refuting geocentrism, not the flat earth myth.


oldgoat
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February 14, 2007 - 3:40pm
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That Copernicus was an opponent of the flat earth theory, instead of the geocentric universe theory is not a myth, merely an error in what was a rhetorical device.

I, for one, think I got BetterReds central point.


dgrollins
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February 14, 2007 - 3:41pm
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quote:Originally posted by BetterRed:
the Earth REALLY is FLAT!!!!!

But, it is. And I should know. I once lived in Saskatchewan.


greenie
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February 14, 2007 - 3:47pm
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quote:Originally posted by oldgoat:
That Copernicus was an opponent of the flat earth theory, instead of the geocentric universe theory is not a myth, merely an error in what was a rhetorical device.

Well, of course he was an opponent of flat earth theory. It was debunked centuries before his time. Did you read my wiki link? It would be like saying Einstein was an opponent of flat earth theory.

The myth is that people in the Middle Ages believed in a flat earth. The original post implied this myth.


oldgoat
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February 14, 2007 - 3:59pm
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No I didn't read you link, and I am aware generally of the history of the proof that the earth is round, and as well that any well educated person in the middle ages was also aware. I wasn't responding to that, I was reacting to your quibble.

greenie
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February 14, 2007 - 4:07pm
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quote:Originally posted by oldgoat:
No I didn't read you link, and I am aware generally of the history of the proof that the earth is round, and as well that any well educated person in the middle ages was also aware. I wasn't responding to that, I was reacting to your quibble.

Hehe... fair enough, fair enough. Allow me to add my own joke then.

Copernicus peddled us a bunch of myths?
Therefore, one plus one really does equal three!!


Bobolink
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February 14, 2007 - 7:17pm
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Not all educational news from the U.S. is so glum. Read Phil Plait's (The Bad Astronomer) blog about the new and improved Kansas school board. The creationists have lost every battle they have fought with the voters.

http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/category/antiscience/


Nanuq
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February 15, 2007 - 9:52am
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There was an interesting commentary in today's Hamiton Spectator (reprinted from the L.A. Times) that places a lot of the blame on the popular "talk-radio" conceptions of evolution. People are too interested in quick sound bites to get a real picture of what evolution is really about.

johnpauljones
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February 15, 2007 - 9:57am
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quote:Originally posted by Nanuq:
People are too interested in quick sound bites to get a real picture of what evolution is really about.

I was at a media training session last year where the instructor stated that "what you say in the next 8 seconds can have a profound affect on your job, bill, resolution, stock etc."

That is why a soundbite is so dangerous.


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