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Equal Time For Creationism

Posted by Zonk on from the can't-say-something-nice dept.

Brian Berns writes "Many news sources reported on President Bush's recent semi-endorsement of 'intelligent design', the politically correct version of creationism that is currently in vogue among groups of conservative Christians in the U.S.. While Mr. Bush was reportedly reluctant to make news on this topic, he apparently felt it was an issue he could not duck. Most of those same news sources, however, missed the recent condemnation of Darwinian evolution by the Catholic cardinal archbishop of Vienna. This NY Times op-ed appears to mark a deliberate attempt to reverse the late Pope John Paul II's acceptance of evolution as 'more than just a hypothesis'."

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  1. Touched by His Noodly Appendage by mmarlett · · Score: 5, Funny

    In Kansas, we intelligently design all the time.

    My favorite current theory is the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Please note how it also explains global warming with the decline of the world's pirate population.

    From the founder's open letter to the Kansas Board of Education, which is considering re-writing the state's science standards to have none: "I think we can all look forward to the time when these three theories are given equal time in our science classrooms across the country, and eventually the world; One third time for Intelligent Design, one third time for Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, and one third time for logical conjecture based on overwhelming observable evidence."

  2. Re:Oh Joy... by Schroedinger · · Score: 5, Funny

    You fogot the .1% of posts predicting the percentage of each category of post. Not to mention the % in the category of posts pointing out that you forgot the former category.

  3. Re:Two thousand by 21st+Century+Peon · · Score: 5, Funny

    "administrators"?
    We'll have none of your heretical polytheism here, son. There is but one Administrator, and His name is ...
    Say, there's a good topic for a survey....

    --
    "Knowledge, sir, should be free to all!"
    ~Harcourt Fenton Mudd
  4. Re:Here we go again... by 21st+Century+Peon · · Score: 5, Funny

    'And saying it was created by Creationists is a red herring. It doesn't matter who "created" it. The concept is what it is.'
    It wasn't 'created' at all - it evolved!
    ...
    I'll get my coat.

    --
    "Knowledge, sir, should be free to all!"
    ~Harcourt Fenton Mudd
  5. Re:Evolution is obsolete- upgrade w/ 'new biology' by Mostly+a+lurker · · Score: 5, Funny

    While ID cannot be definitively disproven, I present GW as Exhibit 1 in showing the conjecture to be improbable.