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Kansas Anti-Creationism Professor Resigns
An anonymous reader writes "A Professor of religion at University of Kansas has resigned from his position at the university because of his anti-creationism views." From the article: "Mirecki had planned to teach a course in the spring that examined creationism and intelligent design after the State Board of Education adopted science standards treating evolution as a flawed theory. Originally called 'Special Topics in Religion: Intelligent Design, Creationism and other Religious Mythologies,' the course was canceled last week at Mirecki's request." The article goes on to explain that Mirecki evidently sent poorly worded email with anti-Christian sentiments around to people interested in the class, and was subsequently beaten for his troubles.
Could've used a bit of intelligent design.
I've just Creationism'd the first post
If these men can beat up a prof for saying things out loud, then its obvious the evolutionary process left them by the wayside, and they grew a up as apes. No wonder they dont believe in evolution.
'I actually did that act one night in the south, then after the show these three rednecks came up to me. "Hey buddy, we're Christians and we didn't like what you said." I said "Then forgive me." Later on, when I was hanging from the tree...'
--Bill Hicks
"Dear Auntie Em: Hate your Intleligent Design, Hate Kansas> Took the dog" -Dorthy
- Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carborata descendum pantorum.
The United State of Kansas.
U SOK?
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
bloody bible bashers :-P
"Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far
Yoda,
Supposing something like that happened, might not you also resign?
Your comment is virtually incomprehensible.
I can't wait for the F Games on ESPN. Sports to the Fundament.
After all, I am strangely colored.
The two men on a country road sound like the kind of christians who do say "turn the other cheek" as well as "squeal like a pig, boy!"
Liberals call everyone Nazis yet they are the closest thing to it.
Kansas Kreationism Kommittee
It's easy to teach intelligent design - here it all is:
The world is too difficult to explain because the God ate my homework.
Boycott Kansas? What a great idea! Let's use the fact that this happened in Kansas to prove that a lot / most / ALL people from Kansas are religious nuts who beat their intellectual betters!
You know what else? Nobody buy anything from LA anymore! Rodney King was beaten there because people from LA are racists.
I rally behind your flag, noble sir.
and as a fundie I can tell you that you are misunderestimating how fat our faces are!
This is why my favorite bumper sticker/button says "The Christian Right is neither", because in many cases it's pretty much true.
Well, it took so long to get up to a billion people because so many millions were being killed.
I'm a militant agnostic. I'll be round tomorrow evening to burn a big question mark in your lawn. (This joke stolen from Billy Connolly)
Rule #1:
Never argue with people that have imaginary friends.
Reminds me of a bumper sticker that I've seen... http://6news.ljworld.com/art/apps/pennynews/110916 2592_bigoted.jpg
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
-Benjamin Disraeli
I, for one, welcome our new Literal-Bible-Reading overlords.
With scientific explanations out of the way, I can think of a bunch of ways to make a pile of cash:
- Blood Letting - "It worked in the 1700s and now it cures Bird Flu"
- Computer Security Pixie Dust - "Got popups and malware? Then have I got a magic sand bag for you"
- Magic Box DRM - "Now through this amazing process your record company too can protect its products from unauthorized consumer replication. Simply place products in the box for 30 minutes prior to shipment, add sheep's blood, and rest assured that your copyrighted content is safe (sheep's blood NOT included)"
- The list goes on and on...
Damn. I thought it was 2005.
Methodist churches have different views than Catholic churches.
We methodists can't even figure out what our views are consistantly in the chuch. My church out here in CA will have some drastically different sermon topics then those of some perishes out in, say, KY.
Who's to say which is "correct"? Except God/Jesus, that is. And neither of them return my calls anymore.
You know, Jesus stopped returning my calls a few years back too... I wonder if everything is OK up there?
Davo -- Free speech, free software, AND free beer.
He's been busy. Bush keeps wardialing his line.
Of course, I forgot the inqusistion.
Nobody expects the spanish inqusistion!
Or more importantly...
WWJD for a Klondike Bar?
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Sounds like they'd make good KDE developers!
Exactly. The story of the attack on Mirecki is not a testable hypothesis and it is not falsifiable. The story of the attack has never been published in a peer-reviewed article in a journal of criminology. The story is therefore mythological.
Oh, wait..
it's a sport, try it, I like saying things like
"Jesus Christ you cock sucking son of a syphilitic whore"
the look of astonished horror on a Christians face is magic.
"A man got religion, and asked the priest what he must do to be worthy of his new estate. The priest said, "Imitate our Father in Heaven, learn to be like him." The man studied his Bible diligently and thoroughly and understandingly, and then with prayers for heavenly guidance instituted his imitations. He tricked his wife into falling downstairs, and she broke her back and became a paralytic for life; he betrayed his brother into the hands of a sharper, who robbed him of his all and landed him in the almshouse; he inoculated one son with hookworms, another with the sleeping sickness, another with gonorrhea; he furnished one daughter with scarlet fever and ushered her into her teens deaf, dumb, and blind for life; and after helping a rascal seduce the remaining one, he closed his doors against her and she died in a brothel cursing him. Then he reported to the priest, who said that that was no way to imitate his Father in Heaven. The convert asked wherein he had failed, but the priest changed the subject and inquired what kind of weather he was having, up his way."
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
What's the total up to now? A few billion?
+43298572 Crushingly, Painfully, Soul-rendingly, Gnashingly, Wailingly, I-Weep-For-The-Speciesingly Insightful.
If Jesus wants me it knows where to find me.
Actually, a relationship with God can apparently be had through your local intercom. :-)
No, but unfortunately with the university of Kansas.
Windows is like decaf - it tastes like the real thing, but it won't get you through the day.
Talking to God is fine. It's when God starts talking back that you should be worrying.
When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself. -- Peter O'Toole
Warning, comments may not have been passed by the sanity department of my brain.