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US House Science Committee Member: Evolution Is a Lie From Hell
First time accepted submitter badford writes "Representative Paul Broun (Georgia Republican) said that evolution, embryology and the Big Bang theory are 'lies straight from the pit of hell' meant to convince people that they do not need a savior. It would not be quite as shocking if Broun did not sit on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. What impact could this have on policy? What impact could this have on STEM education not just in Georgia but all over the U.S.?"
It's on the internet. The fundamental enabling technology for the internet is the semiconductor. The semiconductor is a child of quantum mechanics - there is no classical behavior that would predict it. Even though quantum mechanics are present in all chemistry and even vacuum tubes, those both have classical behavior that can be seen with the naked eye, and appreciated without quantum mechanics.
Semiconductors can't. They're "Devil Science", just like those others.
The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.
is there even a House Committee on Science, Space and Technology?
So there can be an oversight committee, of course.
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We certainly need a saviour from people like him
Shouldn't people stop having imaginary friends when they grow up? Especially imaginary friends with ulterior motives.
It's an election year. ... I suspect he'd wear a pink tutu and sing songs from Little Mermaid if he thought he'd get more votes.
OK, I'm game. I'll pitch in $50 for his re election campaign if he'll do that. Even just the tutu.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Even better, let's just lobotomize anyone who disagrees with current academic knowledge, because clearly they are mentally unfit to be part of society. In case two people are disagreeable on a topic where currently there is no scientific consensus simply jail them until one of them can be lobotomized.
Must be God's will. Nobody else could be that crazy.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
If he's right and only Protestant Young-Earth Creationist Republicans go to heaven, I'm willing to go to hell of my own accord if it means I'll never have to hear anything from them again.
Ezekiel 23:20
Electrions are particles that always travel in the direction of the majority. That direction might change, but only in an electrion year.
... republican inquisition!
Privacy is terrorism.
I for one welcome our new Canadian overlords
Science says that the Flying Spaghetti Monster is impossible. (Some stupid argument about the weight of pasta.) Therefore science is wrong. QED.
As every Buffy fan knows, it's under a suburb in Southern California.
As for myself, I always figured it was likely a situation much like Iceland / Greenland. Give the more likable of the afterlives an ugly name, and most of the the assholes will do whatever they can to be sent to that other place. So, um...yeah, see ya in hell! *Wink wink.*
Constitutional rights may be respected, repealed, or modified; but they must never be ignored.
Georgians.
Must be God's will. Nobody else could be that crazy.
I think that may be a mistake in the translation. -- God
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Standards are well accepted on the Internet...
Tell me sir, what flavors of html and css your browser support? Which versions it supporys correctly? What addations to those standards ithas made for its own use?
Silence is a state of mime.
In fact I get preached to more by athiests than by any other groups
It's like a friend of mine once told me: "Atheists are very boring. All they talk about is God, God, God..."
Conservatism: (n.) love of the existing evils. Liberalism: (n.) desire to substitute new evils for the existing ones.
It's worse, I'm pretty sure this guy is the chair of the committee.
Maybe we can get Clint Eastwood to have a word with him.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
No he doesn't get the economies of scale. He was taught at home.
He's lying. The earth is only 6000 years old. He must have an ulterior pro-science reason for spreading the belief that the earth is 9000 years old.
Oh, but that was Muslims, you see. Everyone knows they're ignorant and backward by nature. Completely different from our situation. No comparison at all.
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
I'm just saying what I was taught 16 years ago.
"Rawr roar rar." Said Jesus, trying to blend in.
"Blessed are the huge scaley monsters, for they shall surely inherit the earth."
I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it!