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Louisiana Passes Intelligent Design Law

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the teaching-magic-in-science-class dept.

H0D_G writes "The US state of Louisiana has passed the 'Science Education Act,' a piece of legislation that could allow Intelligent design to be taught in schools. From the article: 'The act is designed to slip ID in "through the back door"'"

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  1. I guess ID really isn't creationism then.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...we all know how Christianity feels about slipping things in through the back door.

    1. Re:I guess ID really isn't creationism then.. by kestasjk · · Score: 5, Funny

      I wonder if this is something that can be reliably studied?

      I think getting the children for the study might be a bit of a problem.

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    2. Re:I guess ID really isn't creationism then.. by Foofoobar · · Score: 3, Funny

      I know it's cool to hate Christianity right now...

      It is? Right on! Fuck you Jesus!

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    3. Re:I guess ID really isn't creationism then.. by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 3, Funny

      why is it that shell fish are ok now, but homosexuality is not?

      Shellfish taste great. Anal tastes like shit.

    4. Re:I guess ID really isn't creationism then.. by alexborges · · Score: 4, Funny

      And youd be DAMNED RIGHT.

      If god exists, he created evolution.

      If god doesnt exist, evolution created him through us.

      Its a win-win.

      Im getting a job at Andersen's.

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    5. Re:I guess ID really isn't creationism then.. by Bowling+Moses · · Score: 4, Funny

      "A member of the armed forces (a GENERAL!), a policeman, a firefighter, the owner of a barbershop, a barman, a sailor, just-from-frisco-but-not-gay, capitan of the school's wrestling team."

      But what about the construction worker, indian chief, cowboy, and biker?

      YYYYYYY M C A!

    6. Re:I guess ID really isn't creationism then.. by Emperor+Zombie · · Score: 4, Funny

      Gandalf?

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  2. Louisiana a land of believers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Makes sense...after you've experienced the great flood (Katrina), why shouldn't you believe everything else in the Bible?

    1. Re:Louisiana a land of believers? by Admiral+Ag · · Score: 4, Funny

      "didn't some researchers or archeologists hypothesize that the first great flood happened because of a breach of natural dikes (hills or mountains) that ended up flooding a large low lying area?"

      Quick, someone tell Pat Robertson that it was the "dikes" and not the "dykes" that were responsible for it all. His entire theology rests on a typo!!

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  3. This is good news... by VMaN · · Score: 5, Funny

    .. as it also opens the door for the teachings of our noodly saviour

  4. As a member of the Church of FSM by diskofish · · Score: 5, Funny

    As a member of the Church of FSM, I am insulted. If they are allowed to teach ID in the classroom, then the story of the Flying Spaghetti Monster should be allowed as well. Blessed be his noodly greatness!

  5. You mean... by MRe_nl · · Score: 5, Funny

    priests should do it, but not talk about it?
    intelligent design (ID) - the proposition that life is too complicated. Go go Ganesh!
    Stop believing, start thinking.

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    1. Re:You mean... by a-zarkon! · · Score: 3, Funny

      I never could get the hang of Thursdays...

  6. Renounce your blashemous faith! by Narpak · · Score: 5, Funny

    All glory to the Hypnotoad!

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  7. Dear Louisiana by Hoplite3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dear Louisiana,

    Please do not slip anything through my child's back door. Intelligent design or otherwise.

    Yours,

    A Parent.

    PS: I look forward to a pirate-based global warming curriculum.

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  8. ahh, the back door... by gosand · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... right where ID belongs.

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  9. Re:Am I missing something by bsDaemon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Its OK, no education is involved either.

  10. Competing for market share by camperdave · · Score: 5, Funny

    gays and straights aren't competing for market share.

    I'll say. I haven't been asked out by either side in months.

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  11. Re:It's all a moot point anyway by alpha_loopy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful [as a Babel fish] could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing." "But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves that you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. Q.E.D." "Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. "Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing. -HHGttG, Douglas Adams