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Evolution is a scam

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 2:25 am
by buckethead
Such changes are hailed by the government as increasing freedom of choice in a country that for decades excluded the religiously conservative majority. Opponents say the secular educational system is being threatened.“

The education system is becoming reactionary; [they] are now teaching religion in schools,”
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Re: Evolution is a scam

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 2:59 am
by Turdacious
BucketHead wrote:
Such changes are hailed by the government as increasing freedom of choice in a country that for decades excluded the religiously conservative majority. Opponents say the secular educational system is being threatened.“

The education system is becoming reactionary; [they] are now teaching religion in schools,”
Article
That's what happens when you let powerbears visit your country.

Re: Evolution is a scam

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 3:10 am
by kreator
BucketHead wrote:
Such changes are hailed by the government as increasing freedom of choice in a country that for decades excluded the religiously conservative majority. Opponents say the secular educational system is being threatened.“

The education system is becoming reactionary; [they] are now teaching religion in schools,”
Article
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Re: Evolution is a scam

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 4:25 pm
by odin
Haven't read the article due to password, but US driven creationist nonsense is as much of a risk to the progress of mankind as any Islamic idealogy at the moment by virtue of the fact that the US has more influence. Science should be rigourously tested but never dismissed, unless you think a return to the days of the Inquisition represents progress.

ps it's getting big over here too fwiw

Re: Evolution is a scam

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 8:37 pm
by nafod
odin wrote:Haven't read the article due to password, but US driven creationist nonsense is as much of a risk to the progress of mankind as any Islamic idealogy at the moment by virtue of the fact that the US has more influence.
It's really only an issue in a small set of situations, most related to biological science. Stem cell research, the beginning of life, etc. no one is seriously arguing the earth is flat or that the sun orbits the earth.

Re: Evolution is a scam

Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 10:58 pm
by CharlieBob
nafod wrote:... no one is seriously arguing the earth is flat or that the sun orbits the earth.
You sure about that? The bible says the sun orbits the earth afterall... http://creationwiki.org/Bible_says_the_ ... k.Origins)


And even if we say you are right, is arguing that all life was created 6,000 years ago in exactly the form you see today any better, or any less destructive on young minds??

Re: Evolution is a scam

Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2012 11:50 pm
by Fat Cat
ZOMG the Bible uses poetic language, we should abandon EVERYTHING EVEN REMOTELY ASSOCIATED WITH IT.

Re: Evolution is a scam

Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 12:49 am
by Schlegel
odin wrote:Haven't read the article due to password, but US driven creationist nonsense is as much of a risk to the progress of mankind as any Islamic idealogy at the moment by virtue of the fact that the US has more influence. Science should be rigourously tested but never dismissed, unless you think a return to the days of the Inquisition represents progress.

ps it's getting big over here too fwiw
Get back to me when Creationists are suicide bombing paleontology exhibits in other countries and we'll talk.

Re: Evolution is a scam

Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 2:38 am
by DrDonkeyLove
Schlegel wrote:
odin wrote:Haven't read the article due to password, but US driven creationist nonsense is as much of a risk to the progress of mankind as any Islamic idealogy at the moment by virtue of the fact that the US has more influence. Science should be rigourously tested but never dismissed, unless you think a return to the days of the Inquisition represents progress.

ps it's getting big over here too fwiw
Get back to me when Creationists are suicide bombing paleontology exhibits in other countries and we'll talk.
Of all the problems that are barely problems, Christian creationists must be included in that list. An annoyance, yes - a problem, not much. I used to know a lot of fundamentalist creationists and hardly any of them believed in a young earth. They thought that G_d was the clockmaker and that man didn't ascend from apes but other than that I never saw anything that was anti-science. In fact I encountered multiple Christian fundamentalists who were scientists.

In a western democracy, they will never get enough clout to be more than an annoyance.

Re: Evolution is a scam

Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 2:59 am
by buckethead
Fat Cat wrote:ZOMG the Bible uses poetic language, we should abandon EVERYTHING EVEN REMOTELY ASSOCIATED WITH IT.
Are you saying there are places where the bible is flat-out incorrect, in error, not true


BTW, not sure why this is now password protected. It was about Muslims in Turkey. Sounded very much like Texas