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You are here: Home / Politics / Domestic Politics / Creationism Update

Creationism Update

by John Cole|  May 25, 20054:06 pm| 16 Comments

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Reason (via Instapundit):

Who needs to make monkeys out of the Kansas Board of Education when its members are doing such a good job of it themselves?

Members of the Kansas board convened hearings this month to hear testimony from proponents of the theory of intelligent design that the theory of evolution is bunk. How deliciously wacky of the board to hold their kangaroo court on evolutionary theory on the 80th anniversary of the arrest of Tennessee high school teacher John T. Scopes for illegally teaching biology to his students. And like the Tennessee court back in 1925, the Kansas education officials in the 21st century have found evolutionary theory guilty again.

“Heh.”

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  1. 1.

    Libertine

    May 25, 2005 at 4:43 pm

    Hmmmm…I guess this would open the door to revisit that repugnant theory that Copernicus put forward that we orbit around the Sun.

  2. 2.

    ketel

    May 25, 2005 at 6:02 pm

    That’s weird. I didn’t realize that evolution and heliocentrism were leftist ‘theories’. This is about science, not politics, or didn’t you get that?

  3. 3.

    Libertine

    May 25, 2005 at 6:06 pm

    Yeah didn’t you know that Copernicus was an early, well known, subversive leftist, ketel?

    And the wingnuts on the right view all science as heretical because it dares to try to explain the world around us… undermining faith, therefore attacking religion. You must not engage in independant thought, just believe what you are told.

    Copernicus, Galileo, Bruno, Darwin and so many others are testament to the effort of organized religion to control what people think. Ignorance is bliss…

  4. 4.

    ketel

    May 25, 2005 at 6:24 pm

    That’s exactly right Libertine. It’s important to point out over and over that science, by its very nature, is trying to explore and to find out more. That’s just what it does. The nature of religion, on the other hand, is to explicitly not explore. Everything relies on faith and all evidence for what we cannot truly know is found in one book, with no future evidence possible.

    I don’t see a problem with religion and science coexisting side by side, but they are most definitely not the same thing. Attempts by the religious right to make it so will forever and always hurt their cause, not help it. It’s funny how so many people don’t get that.

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    ketel

    May 25, 2005 at 6:37 pm

    Where did TJ’s comment go?

  6. 6.

    Libertine

    May 25, 2005 at 6:45 pm

    The comments were there the last time I checked ketel…but they have vanished.

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    ketel

    May 25, 2005 at 6:49 pm

    doo-doo-doo-doo doo-doo-doo-doo*

    I swear that sounded like twilight zone when I typed it!

  8. 8.

    John Cole

    May 25, 2005 at 6:51 pm

    I deleted them. He made ten comments in ten different threads, eight of which were nothing more than direct insults to people. I left up the ones where he com0limented someone who agreed with him and the ones where he made actual points, but the oneswith him claiming people don’t know who there father is and the like went into the memory hole.

  9. 9.

    Libertine

    May 25, 2005 at 6:55 pm

    Thanks for the 4-11 John…At least we know we weren’t hallucinating, lol!!!

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    ketel

    May 25, 2005 at 6:59 pm

    I don’t usually agree with deleting comments, but in this case, it seems justified. I mean, you can only hear the same thing so many times before turning it off.

    I love this site by the way. It’s one of the few places on the web where both sides are actually talking to each other and having decent conversations. I’ve tried to comment on other right-leaning blogs and have gotten instantaneously pilloried for speaking my mind. There’s a nice balance here. Thanks.

  11. 11.

    TJ Jackson

    May 25, 2005 at 7:09 pm

    Mr. Cole:
    Apparently insults, bigorty, and mindless comments devoid of fact are acceptable here depnding on the point of view expressed. No matter. This blog has been sounding more like Andrew Sullivan and Willis for some time. I amke a point to include fact but it is apparent that the Kos kids rule here.

  12. 12.

    John Cole

    May 25, 2005 at 7:13 pm

    TJ- You made numerous coments all in a row, and in each one you insulted someone. You told someone he didn;t know who his father one, you called someone an uneducated dolt, and you used a variety of missives. I deleted them.

    I did not ban you, reprimand you, or even intend to say anything about it because I think people should usually have their say. IN fact, I kept all the ones where you did make points, as well as all the ones where all you did was compliment someone else.

  13. 13.

    Lee

    May 25, 2005 at 9:53 pm

    tj: take it easy. understand what your in for at this site. conservative bashing and (anything) Christian-related is trashed. just enjoy the ranting. (No offense, just the facts).

  14. 14.

    John Cole

    May 25, 2005 at 9:57 pm

    Lee- I don’t bash conservatives or Christians. I bash apologists and partisans, and I bash the God squad with their periodic outbursts.

    The vast majority of this website’s history has been devoted to idiotic behavior on the left. It is just recently, my side is worse.

  15. 15.

    Lee

    May 25, 2005 at 10:23 pm

    John: with all due respect… I disagree. seems to be a recurring theme with quite a few of the commentors.

  16. 16.

    Kimmitt

    May 25, 2005 at 10:59 pm

    Yes, because a lot of the commenters are suffering from the same persecution complex that John is pointing out.

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