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"*nemo*" |
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01 Mar 2006 01:22:40 AM |
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Dumber than a bag of hammers |
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060301/ap_on_sc/evolution_nevada
A masonry contractor in Nevada is pushing to amend the state
constitution to require teachers to say that "there are many questions
about evolution."
So... let's see if we can name all the things wrong with this story.
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| Title: Re: Dumber than a bag of hammers |
01 Mar 2006 01:27:11 AM |
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*nemo* wrote:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060301/ap_on_sc/evolution_nevada
A masonry contractor in Nevada is pushing to amend the state
constitution to require teachers to say that "there are many questions
about evolution."
So... let's see if we can name all the things wrong with this story.
I like this part:
"Brown, who has three school-age children, said he's been interested in
evolution for years. He added that if people take time to read his
proposal "how can this not pass?"
If he's been interested in evolution for years, why doesn't he believe
it? He's been interested in alternatives for years. Another liar for
christ...
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| User: "Mike Painter" |
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| Title: Re: Dumber than a bag of hammers |
01 Mar 2006 02:16:18 PM |
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*nemo* wrote:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060301/ap_on_sc/evolution_nevada
A masonry contractor in Nevada is pushing to amend the state
constitution to require teachers to say that "there are many questions
about evolution."
So... let's see if we can name all the things wrong with this story.
Time out.
While he may be a semi-literate fundie and there certainly is no need for
such an amendment if the teachers actually do their job, what is wrong with
the statement itself?
Or do you all believe the questions have been settled?
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| User: "Christopher A. Lee" |
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| Title: Re: Dumber than a bag of hammers |
01 Mar 2006 02:18:48 PM |
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On Wed, 01 Mar 2006 20:16:18 GMT, "Mike Painter"
<mddotpainter@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
*nemo* wrote:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060301/ap_on_sc/evolution_nevada
A masonry contractor in Nevada is pushing to amend the state
constitution to require teachers to say that "there are many questions
about evolution."
So... let's see if we can name all the things wrong with this story.
Time out.
While he may be a semi-literate fundie and there certainly is no need for
such an amendment if the teachers actually do their job, what is wrong with
the statement itself?
Or do you all believe the questions have been settled?
What questions? There is no dispute about evolution, and no
controversy outside the lies of certain religious fundamentalists.
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: Dumber than a bag of hammers |
02 Mar 2006 12:29:43 AM |
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In article <nemo0037-B69B9B.02201101032006@news.east.earthlink.net>,
*nemo* <nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> wrote:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060301/ap_on_sc/evolution_nevada
A masonry contractor in Nevada is pushing to amend the state
constitution to require teachers to say that "there are many questions
about evolution."
So... let's see if we can name all the things wrong with this story.
Masonry contractor, eh? Maybe a load of bricks fell on his head. It
seems that he visited AIG or a similar website and copied out all of the
same old tired fallacious arguments that we've heard a thousand times
before.
Indeed there are questions about evolution, not that it happened, but
dealing with subjects such as mechanism, or taxonomy, for examples.
However, these are scientific questions, on which scientists are
working, using modern scientific methods. Sky spooks and unintelligent
designers need not apply.
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John Hachmann aa #1782
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| User: "655321" |
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| Title: Re: Dumber than a bag of hammers |
01 Mar 2006 03:41:02 AM |
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In article <nemo0037-B69B9B.02201101032006@news.east.earthlink.net>,
*nemo* <nemo0037@earthlink.dieSPAM.net> wrote:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060301/ap_on_sc/evolution_nevada
A masonry contractor in Nevada is pushing to amend the state
constitution to require teachers to say that "there are many questions
about evolution."
There ARE many questions, such as:
1. Why do some people pretend that they know what evoution is when they
don't?
2. How many times must various illnesses -- such as the flu -- actually
*evolve* before evolution will be seen by those same people as an
observed fact?
3. When will some people's "thinking" itself evolve into actual
thinking, sans the quotation marks?
[room for more]
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655321
"There is no America; there is no democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and
AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the
world today." -- Arthur Jensen, 'Network' (1976)
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