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12 Florida Schools Pass Anti-Evolution Resolutions
Several sources are reporting that twelve school districts in Florida have passed resolutions against the teaching of evolution. Out of all the arguments, however, one administrator seems to have gotten it right: "Then, the final speaker, Lisa Dizengoff, director of science curriculum at Pembroke Pines Charter School's east campus, angrily reminded the crowd that after all the carping over evolution, no one had gotten around to addressing the state's lackadaisical, last-century approach to science education. 'All I heard was this argument about evolution,' she said, disgusted that so many other problems had been preempted by a single controversy. 'The kids lost out again.''"
there was a rumor going around florida might lose their fark tag.
It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
When do we start bombing the religious zealots in this country for oppressing their people?
No sig for you!!
I think I'm going to have to head down to that next meeting with a clue-by-four and lay down some science on their asses.
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
pi = 3. It's in the bible, it's the law. I for one do not welcome our divine overlords.
The kids are getting screwed by America's wang.
"I understand there are people who believe (evolution), but I would be happier to see them at least present both sides and teach it as theory, as opposed to a fact," Stilson said. "It is just as scientific to believe in intelligent design as it is to believe in evolution."
Listen, and understand! Those creationists are out there. They can't be bargained with. They can't be reasoned with. They don't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And they absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead!
If you actually want to learn something about evolution, then I recommend going to http://talkorigins.org/ where there are dozens of articles dealing with all manner of evolutionary problems and explanations, with full citations so you can go to a library and check for yourself.
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You might also like to see what they think in the mirror universe of "creation science". Put on your false beard and pretend to be your fundamentalist twin as you visit the creationist response to talkorigins. Then read your Bible and check for yourself!
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You're an immobile computer, remember?
It's true I tell you, feller at work's next door neighbour read it in the paper.
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Latitude correlates to IQ!
The lower you go, the lower it gets.
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You when will you literalists ever learn?
God only used an integer because support for floating point operations was severely limited in the CPUs of the time.
If you actually read the http://www.taylor.k12.fl.us/shared.content/board.meetings/minutes/11-20-07.pdf>meeting minutesyou would see that they are actually EXPANDING on the theory of evolution into the real of cosmology and quantum physics.
"[we] are requesting that the State Board of Education direct the Florida Department of
Education to revise/edit the new Sunshine State Standards for Science so that evolution is
presented as one of several theories as to how the universe was formed."
I have a graduate degree in physics, but I wasn't aware that the universe was formed by evolution. Although I have to admit that the thought of mating galaxies has a certain appeal.
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People who don't understand sarcasm are bound to be an irresistible target for it.
Methinks in these days of growing fanaticism, both religious and ideological, we would do well to learn from what Voltaire wrote.
Instead of trying to get people to read and understand Voltaire, I think it'd be a lot easier to just move out of Florida to someplace where the people aren't so stupid.
Amen to that.
A friend of mine has this interesting theory that God is a woman, and has also a nice proof. Observe:
Therefore, the apparent lack of God's benevolence is merely due to the fact that She has PMS.
The upside is that aye, there shall indeed come an end to all the atrocities present in our world.
The downside, of course, is the fact that there will be rains of blood for a few thousand years beforehand.
Ignore this signature. By order.
Not to mention, if God were a man, the Bible would be a magazine, with lots of pictures.
Dark Reflection
I love the way those guys can watch CSI and have no problem agreeing that a 99.9% DNA match "proves" the suspect is the real father and then turn around and claim that a 95% DNA match between a human and a chimpanzee is just Satan's plot to deceive you into believing in evolution.
God uses templates
Hey, *Americans* may come from apes, the rest of the world evolved from hominids ;)
(yes, yes I know... It's just a joke http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hominid )
There are only three possibilities.
1. All species that exist today have always existed. This would only be compatible with a steady-state cosmology.
2. Complex species appeared suddenly (with no predecessors). Observe as long as you wish, you will never see this happen.
3. Single-celled species appeared at some point in the past, and complex species evolved from those.
Guess which option I'd put my money on.
But, I wanted socialized health insurance!
Oh - wait - religion wants us to be all meek and follow the leader and his disciples.
There is only one religion that always works and that is Murphy's Law. But there are some who think's Murphy was an optimist. - In short "Shit happens".
"Religion is only a crutch"
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.