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Why Are Some Hell-Bent On Teaching Intelligent Design?

Posted by samzenpus on from the just-the-facts-mam dept.

Funksaw writes "Here's an op-ed by first-time politician, long-time Slashdotter Brian Boyko, where he talks about his experiences testifying at the Texas Board of Education in favor of having real science in science textbooks. But beyond that, he also tries to examine, philosophically, why there is such hardened resistance to the idea of evolution in Texas. From the article: '[W]hat is true is that evolution tests faith. The fact of evolution is incontrovertible and supported by mounds of empirical evidence. Faith, on the other hand, is fragile. It is supported only by the strength of human will. And this is where it gets tricky. Because to many believers, faith, not works, is the only guarantee that one can pass God's litmus test and gain access to His divine kingdom. To lose one's faith is to literally damn oneself. So tests to that faith must be avoided at all costs. Better to be a philosophical coward than a theological failure.'"

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  1. More importantly by Cryacin · · Score: 5, Funny

    If God did create us, how bad an engineer do you have to be to put a sewage outlet right in the middle of a recreational area?

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    1. Re:More importantly by neonmonk · · Score: 4, Funny

      Sex is for procreation not recreation! Sinner!

    2. Re:More importantly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      The problems is that users have also been finding recreation in that sewage outlet in ways said engineer had not intended.

    3. Re:More importantly by Capsaicin · · Score: 5, Funny

      If God did create us, how bad an engineer do you have to be to put a sewage outlet right in the middle of a recreational area?

      You can hardly blame God for that. God merely created us in his own image ... blame the engineer who designed God!

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    4. Re:More importantly by kh31d4r · · Score: 5, Funny

      Or at least one without Apple.

    5. Re:More importantly by Sockatume · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's ancient aliens all the way up.

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    6. Re:More importantly by Big+Hairy+Ian · · Score: 5, Funny

      Smiting??? Ahhh you mean percussive maintenance :)

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    7. Re:More importantly by Sockatume · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's the sound I made while watching Prometheus.

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    8. Re:More importantly by cas2000 · · Score: 5, Funny

      > who puts child production/care next to waste treatement plants?

      Libertarians, because regulations are evil.

    9. Re:More importantly by dreamchaser · · Score: 4, Funny

      Take a look at a platypus sometime. I mean, the damn things are basically beavers with webbed feed and a duck's bill. And they lay eggs. It's like he took all the left over bits from other creations and just tossed them together in a salad bowl.

      Or, as Robin Williams postulated, the platypus is proof that God smokes pot.

    10. Re:More importantly by Adult+film+producer · · Score: 5, Funny

      Ezekial 23:20 - There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

    11. Re:More importantly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      You raise your kids your way, and I'll raise mine my way.

    12. Re:More importantly by GameboyRMH · · Score: 5, Funny

      Actually the way the anus and prostate are arranged is very convenient for male-on-male buttsex...what's up with that, God? Huh?

      "Oh you better not stick your weener in another guy's pooper, but I'll put some fun bits in there and make some of you guys sexually attracted to men. Trololololol!"

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    13. Re:More importantly by Zero__Kelvin · · Score: 1, Funny

      " What has been found is that the "Old Testament" was kept very rigorlessly and was virtually unchanged after centuries. "

      Well if they did so as rigorlessly as you I stand corrected!

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  2. Re:But I don't know the real answer! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Are we still talking about theists or did we switch over to business consultants?

  3. Re:I disagree. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    So to sum up: They're stupid.

  4. Re:God of the Gaps by TheRaven64 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Superstition is the nonsense other people believe, faith is the nonsense I believe.

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  5. Re:Faith and evolution ARE compatible by tekrat · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why is it so hard to accept that human beings evolved from goo? Have you looked inside a human body? Dude, we're *still* goo!

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