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Royal Society "Creationist" Resigns
Chris_Keene writes in to let us know that the Prof. Michael Reiss, who recently caused a storm with comments about teaching creationism in schools, has resigned from his post as director of education at the Royal Society in the UK. This news coincides with word out of the Anglican church that it is ready to apologize to Charles Darwin, 150 years after it poured scorn on his theory of evolution by natural selection. "The Church of England will concede in a statement that it was over-defensive and over-emotional in dismissing Darwin's ideas. It will call 'anti-evolutionary fervor' an 'indictment' on the Church."
I AM A FISH!
Actually, no, it was survival by the fittest.
The contemporary militant Tooth Fairy jihadist movement continues to be disrespected by these scientific infidels.
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"This news coincides with word out of the Anglican church that it is ready to apologize to Charles Darwin, 150 years after it poured scorn on his theory of evolution by natural selection. "The Church of England will concede in a statement that it was over-defensive and over-emotional in dismissing Darwin's ideas. It will call 'anti-evolutionary fervor' an 'indictment' on the Church.""
Now will the evolutionist and the creationists kiss and make up?
Gravity is just a theory, not a proven fact, but I still fall over...
-- oldthinkers unbellyfeel ingsoc
I guess I must have missed the part on telepathy and omniscience.
Alcohol is just a theory, not a proven fact, but I still fall over...
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Wow, cool. So the KJV is the original word of God.
I'd go on a Vegan diet but the delivery time from Vega is too long. --brownkitty
Please Please yourself.
No - please please me - whoa yeah!
Gosh. It's been a long time. I'm pretty sure I could divide an angle into an number of divisions using my compass and a straight edge. The trick is that you have to be an engineer instead of a mathematician. It reminds me of a joke...
An engineer and a mathematician are standing some distance away from Natalie Portman who is holding a pot of steaming hot grits. They are told that they can only approach Natalie by covering one half the distance with each iteration. They can use as many iterations as they want to approach Natalie. The mathemetician leaves in disgust. The engineer says, "I can get close enough for practical purposes."
It'd be like finding out a Linux admin runs Windows at home. He'd be ridiculed until he had to step down with a tarnished reputation and may not ever be able to work in computers again.
Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
Mentioning "creationism" when your in the Royal Academy of Science is not unlike mentioning "blowjob" at a meeting of the Evangelical Women's Association. It's a little more than a "slip of the tongue", and you might get asked to leave.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Clearly, you've never met a Missouri fundamentalist.
You are welcome on my lawn.
For non-UK readers - the Daily Mail is a conservative right wing tabloid.
That's a contradiction in terms. Tabloids are anathema to social conservatives.
it is very pro-Christian, and anti-atheism
I have read scores of stories in the Daily Mail over the years (linked from Drudge), and I'm stunned at your opinion. Pro-Christian? On its site right now, there are no fewer than half a dozen headlined stories focusing on the "pro-Christian" topic of boobs--one of them on male boobs. It's like that every day. The site is almost pornographic. I try to ignore the naughty links on the side, and as a follower of the Bible personally, I'm a little ashamed to admit that I read stories there. The site, over all, definitely promotes an atheistic/humanistic philosophy over a Christian one. If the Daily Mail is what passes for "pro-Christian" in the UK media, the rest must have gone to hell, literally. I know it's not really that bad, but you calling the Daily Mail conservative is like Palestinians calling Bill Clinton a Zionist.
Thank God.
All possible stuff and their opposite.
So somewhere out there is a man called Bush W George, an intelligent and respected man, who is opposed to war and cares deeply about the environment.
Of course with all things being opposite Bush W George lost the election to the warmongering, environment destroying imbecile Gore Al, so the anti-matter universe is not really all that different too our own in the end.
What if Tetris was invented by Nazis?