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"Jason Spaceman" |
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09 Dec 2005 09:05:06 AM |
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Kansas: Creationist plans run for education board |
From the article:
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Fossil hunter hopes to unseat Wagnon in '08
By Joel Mathis (Contact)
Friday, December 9, 2005
A fossil hunter who supports intelligent design will run for the Kansas State
Board of Education seat now held by a defender of evolution.
"These evolutionists are saying that Jesus was half-chimpanzee, so was Mohammed
and Buddha," said Alan Detrich, a 58-year-old Lawrence Republican who takes
classes at Kansas University. "I don't think that's right."
He said he planned to challenge Bill Wagnon, the Topeka Democrat who represents
parts of Douglas, Shawnee, Osage and Wabaunsee counties on the state board.
Wagnon is one of four board members who voted last month against new science
standards that critique evolution using an intelligent design perspective.
Wagnon's seat isn't up for election until 2008.
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Read it at
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2005/dec/09/creationist_plans_run_education_board/?evolution
or http://tinyurl.com/7hoja
J. Spaceman
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| User: "Steven J." |
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| Title: Re: Kansas: Creationist plans run for education board |
09 Dec 2005 11:39:03 AM |
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"Jason Spaceman" <notreally@jspaceman.homelinux.org> wrote in message
news:n-GdnUUYXvS_AATenZ2dnUVZ_v2dnZ2d@rogers.com...
From the article:
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Fossil hunter hopes to unseat Wagnon in '08
By Joel Mathis (Contact)
Friday, December 9, 2005
A fossil hunter who supports intelligent design will run for the Kansas
State
Board of Education seat now held by a defender of evolution.
"These evolutionists are saying that Jesus was half-chimpanzee, so was
Mohammed
and Buddha," said Alan Detrich, a 58-year-old Lawrence Republican who
takes
classes at Kansas University. "I don't think that's right."
William Dembski needs to notify Kansas, *right now*, that Intelligent Design
isn't creationism. Michael Behe needs to remind them that ID merely states
that some aspects of nature are designed, and not that common descent is
false.
But then, that might not help; as TomS. has pointed out, ID obviously is
compatible with, even implies, that if we aren't just modified chimps, we
were clearly *designed* to be "half-chimpanzee." Detrich's complaint
wouldn't seem to be something that ID could help him with, if ID were, in
fact, a theory rather than a new package under which to market creationism.
It's nice, though, that he's reaching out to the Buddhist voters of Kansas,
although from what I've heard, Buddhists don't actually have much complaint
with the idea that Guatama Siddhartha was half-chimpanzee.
He said he planned to challenge Bill Wagnon, the Topeka Democrat who
represents
parts of Douglas, Shawnee, Osage and Wabaunsee counties on the state
board.
Wagnon is one of four board members who voted last month against new
science
standards that critique evolution using an intelligent design perspective.
Wagnon's seat isn't up for election until 2008.
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Read it at
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2005/dec/09/creationist_plans_run_education_board/?evolution
or http://tinyurl.com/7hoja
J. Spaceman
--
My email address (notreally@jspaceman.homelinux.org) is fake. Email sent
to it
will only get caught in my spam tarpit.
-- Steven J.
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| User: "Geoff" |
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| Title: Re: Kansas: Creationist plans run for education board |
09 Dec 2005 11:34:57 AM |
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"Jason Spaceman" <notreally@jspaceman.homelinux.org> wrote in message
news:n-GdnUUYXvS_AATenZ2dnUVZ_v2dnZ2d@rogers.com...
From the article:
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Fossil hunter hopes to unseat Wagnon in '08
By Joel Mathis (Contact)
Friday, December 9, 2005
A fossil hunter who supports intelligent design will run for the Kansas
State
Board of Education seat now held by a defender of evolution.
Here's his company: http://www.fossilking.com/
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| User: "quibbler" |
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| Title: Re: Kansas: Creationist plans run for education board |
09 Dec 2005 03:45:38 PM |
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In article <n-GdnUUYXvS_AATenZ2dnUVZ_v2dnZ2d@rogers.com>,
notreally@jspaceman.homelinux.org says...
From the article:
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"These evolutionists are saying that Jesus was half-chimpanzee,
No, it's pretty obvious that Jesus was 100% chimpanzee (though that
is something of an insult to chimps) and Mohammed (***** be upon him)
was a gibbering baboon.
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"Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been
able to move real mountains ... But it can put
mountains where there are none." -- Nietzsche
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: Kansas: Creationist plans run for education board |
10 Dec 2005 11:34:39 PM |
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Mohammed (***** be upon him) was a gibbering baboon.
OK, I'll bite: Is that the same thing as a dyslexic babbling gibbon?
(So now I'll be known as "quibbler's stooge"?)
..
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| User: "none" |
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| Title: Re: Kansas: Creationist plans run for education board |
10 Dec 2005 06:39:26 PM |
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In article <a5c46$439a692a$c690c02a$24962@TSOFT.COM>,
says...
Mohammed (***** be upon him) was a gibbering baboon.
OK, I'll bite: Is that the same thing as a dyslexic babbling gibbon?
Possibly, but given the illiteracy of baboons (including Mohammed) and
gibbons, I don't see that impairment making much difference to either
primate.
(So now I'll be known as "quibbler's stooge"?)
I'll give you your choice of being Larry, Curly or Moe ;)
--
Quibbler (quibbler247atyahoo.com)
"It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the
threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, 'mad cow'
disease, and many others, but I think a case can be
made that faith is one of the world's great evils,
comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to
eradicate." -- Richard Dawkins
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| User: "thissteve" |
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| Title: Re: Kansas: Creationist plans run for education board |
09 Dec 2005 03:43:10 PM |
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Jason Spaceman wrote:
"These evolutionists are saying that Jesus was half-chimpanzee, so was Mohammed
and Buddha," said Alan Detrich, a 58-year-old Lawrence Republican who takes
classes at Kansas University.
Does that make me half Chinese?
This guy's so dumb, he's likely to win.
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