"When will we abolish this stupid electoral college?"
Good idea. Just don't complain when people with whom you don't agree scrap parts of the constitution you think are important or tack on amendments that you feel violate your rights.
Consistency 4tw.
While there have been many good articles posted here, I can get them elsewhere without the hateful intolerance I find on this site. A great deal of you are every bit as rabid and narrow-minded as the ignorant creationists.
RTFM - an excellent point, I think, especially since I myself am a programmer. I think that you are quite right in that a little knowledge would go a long way, and certainly understand the frustration regarding the ignorance associated with certain world views. There are also certainly those who will never accept this theory regardless of the evidence presented. I was directing my comments more towards the overzealous posters who rush right past evolution towards derision of faith in higher powers, comparing them to those who rush right past faith towards utter rejection of science. The defense of one does not lead to rebuttal of the other. I thought I'd bring that up since some of the posts here are more attacks against religion, considering the lack of creationists posting ignorant statements here on/.
While not at all a proponent of creationism or its ilk, I must say that I'm not sure whose zealotry I should fear more - the Christian or secular extremist. In these threads, it seems to me that evolution is defended as if it were every bit the sacred doctrine that the fundamentalists champion. Rational theories should be defended in rational ways, not with derision towards peoples of faith.
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"When will we abolish this stupid electoral college?"
Good idea. Just don't complain when people with whom you don't agree scrap parts of the constitution you think are important or tack on amendments that you feel violate your rights. Consistency 4tw.
While there have been many good articles posted here, I can get them elsewhere without the hateful intolerance I find on this site. A great deal of you are every bit as rabid and narrow-minded as the ignorant creationists.
RTFM - an excellent point, I think, especially since I myself am a programmer. I think that you are quite right in that a little knowledge would go a long way, and certainly understand the frustration regarding the ignorance associated with certain world views. There are also certainly those who will never accept this theory regardless of the evidence presented. I was directing my comments more towards the overzealous posters who rush right past evolution towards derision of faith in higher powers, comparing them to those who rush right past faith towards utter rejection of science. The defense of one does not lead to rebuttal of the other. I thought I'd bring that up since some of the posts here are more attacks against religion, considering the lack of creationists posting ignorant statements here on /.
While not at all a proponent of creationism or its ilk, I must say that I'm not sure whose zealotry I should fear more - the Christian or secular extremist. In these threads, it seems to me that evolution is defended as if it were every bit the sacred doctrine that the fundamentalists champion. Rational theories should be defended in rational ways, not with derision towards peoples of faith.