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Australian Schools To Teach Intelligent Design

An anonymous reader writes "It appears that schools within the Australian state of Queensland are going to be required to teach Intelligent Design as part of their Ancient History studies. While it is gratifying to note that it isn't being taught in science classes (since it most certainly isn't a science), one wonders what role a modern controversy can possibly serve within a subject dedicated to a period of history which occurred hundreds of years before Darwin proposed his groundbreaking theory?"

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  1. Re:Teach it? by captain_dope_pants · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just show them this video - sums it up really Robin Ince on ID

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  2. This comment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    This comment was written by no one and evolved from a series of random pixels. Those pixels spontaneously came to being from a void of nothingness. It just makes sense.

  3. Re:Faith by MrEricSir · · Score: 2, Funny

    And that poor grammar is what made me realize there's a preview button.

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  4. Re:Double-you tee eff, mate by Farmer+Tim · · Score: 3, Funny

    What is the election cycle like there?

    It's a unicycle: ridden by clowns.

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  5. Re:Double-you tee eff, mate by interval1066 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Q: What is the election cycle like there? A: It's a unicycle: ridden by clowns.

    Hey! Stop copying the American system!!

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  6. Intelligent design *and* intelligent firewalls by lostsoulz · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ladies and Gentlemen

    You thought we'd lost our minds with our crazy continental firewalling...but we're not done yet! Begone Darwin and all that reactionary claptrap. Come to Australia where the earth is flat (ignoring Uluru, hell...we've ignored the rights of Aboriginal folks, so we can ignore their rock!)

    Best wishes

    Conroy et al.
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  7. Re:Being vs Becoming by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I really don't fit in well with my species.

    you're right, you don't. most of us aren't such arrogant, condescending assholes.

    You must be new here...

  8. Re:"Faith Science Basis?" by labnet · · Score: 1, Funny

    I think Dawinistic Evolution is the biggest scientific fraud ever perpetrated on mankind, only gaining traction because of mans general inclination to reject any notion of being accountable to a God.
    Evolution doesn't even pass the first level of critical thinking. To believe that beneficial mutations have far outnumbered non-beneficial mutations is complete nonsense.
    Evolution of DNA (analagous to object code and partial execution machine) is like saying; lets get the a linux distribution and randomaly mutate a byte here and there, and presto theres a new video codec, without acknowledging such a process actually causes faster functional degredation whos rate far outweighs the beneficial creation of functionality.

    Evolution is not science, its a pseudo religion by those wishing to reject any notion of a creator.

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