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It appears the Intelligent Design movement may have adapted to the current environment and changed its tactics in order to stay viable as a movement. Hmmmm… there’s a word for that somewhere… oh yeah, it’s called “irony”.
Louisiana teachers will now be allowed to bring in supplimentary textbooks which promote different theories on the origin of life on earth. By different, they mean Intelligent Design (the world is only 6,000 years old).
Now I have no problem with discussions going on about the origin of life, but teachers have a responsibility to their students to prepare them for the future. They also have a position of authority over them. Science should be taught from a scientific perspective, and religion should be taught from a religious perspective – but not in public schools. If we’re going to teach intelligent design there, who’s version do we use?
His?
^^^Just for you, Angry Guy
One thing I’m sure of though, is that my kids will at the very least be able to get into college before anyone from the public schools in the Bible Belt.
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I think there is a segment in Bill Maher new movie about it.
http://theapostolicreport.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/bill-mahers-new-anti-religious-film/
dude.
you need to open your mind for once and go watch The Truth Project.
Bobbi- Dude is a red-blooded churchy like you, I think you are barking up the wrong tree.
I don’t see the Flying Spaghetti Monster in there anywhere. Once again Pastafarians are ignored.
May his noodley appendage strike me down.
bobbi, I took a few minutes and looked at the truth project website. While I think that if I were a lost sheep looking for a new “world view” and still believed that God was a bearded guy in the clouds somewhere this might be a viable project.
The book that you and all the other x-tians base their lives upon was edited for content by Constantine and the council of Nicea to further unify the factions of x-tianity for their own political gain. This modern bible has always been a political tool used to control the masses.
Jesus was an architect previous to his career as a prophet.
I just don’t take the Book literally in every respect. The book of Genisis was written by men who had very limited understanding of their world. Entire continents existed that they didn’t know about.
I have no problem with the idea that the universe was created by God, it can’t be proven or unproven – nor could any of the other religious creation theories. But I don’t think we have any business telling schools to teach our beliefs as a theory to students. They need to be prepared for the world.
I’m of the Timothy Leary School on this one.
“Think for yourself and question authority.”
I think of the bible like this. The Old Testament stuff is like Aesop’s fables. There is interpretation needed to find an outdated hidden message in between the misogyny and superstition. The New Testament is Constantine’s Testament unto his own legacy.
Faith can be a powerful thing, and in no way do I discredit yours or anyone else’s.
Let the x-tian wackos screw their kids up their way, and I’ll screw mine up my way.
Of course the fundies have evolved. They stopped telling us that the Earth was flat and at the center of the universe a few hundred years ago. (apologies to the Flat Earth Society). A few still think hurricanes are punishment for gay people and they’re still a little slow in the biology, geology, astromony, physics, and chemistry departments but give em time.
I’m with dude on this one, I believe in a creator. I also agree many religious doctrines have plenty of great advice on how to live a good life, the Christians don’t have an advantage in that department. I’ve been reading about buddism a little, though I would never become one I do like there philosophy about humor and peaceful dissent.
Budda wasn’t a Christian, but Jesus would have made a good Buddhist.
Except when he went ape-shit on the money changers in the temple, not budda-like.
That and the whole Jewish thing….
Someone needs to take a picture of the Marquee in front of Pastor(?) DooHickey’s church, I guess is says:
He ministers to the:
Oppressed
Depressed
Addicted and
Convicted
At least we know where all the Pomp Room groupies are going now.
The only thing oppressive about the Pomp was the stench from the back room.
Scary to think most of them are probably married with kids now.
the kids part is probably true, but not the married part . . .