Posted on 02/28/2005 4:06:35 AM PST by beaversmom
TV comedian Bill Maher has provided new proof that today's secularists display far less tolerance, and far more fanaticism, than their counterparts among people of faith.
On MSNBC, Maher baldly declared: "We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion . I think it justifies crazies I think religion is a neurological disorder The future does not belong to religion."
Even those who share Maher's left-leaning politics must recognize that religious celebrities who railed against non-believers in similar terms would face an avalanche of criticism. Imagine the reaction if James Dobson suggested, "atheism is a neurological disorder!"
Of course, religious leaders seldom denounce non-believers as "sick" since they hope to encourage their faith and millions of uncommitted Americans have indeed recently embraced traditional religious practice.
The ongoing, undeniable revival in Bible-based Christian and Jewish families gives the lie to the unmarried and childless Maher's smug declaration that "the future does not belong to religion."
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No human designed DNA. Your point is not well taken. You seem to neither understand the ID nonsense nor the science.
No human designed DNA. Your point is not well taken. You seem to neither understand the ID nonsense nor the science.
It's called "selection". If I want big red dogs, I select for the biggest and reddest puppies. You do that several generations and you'll get big red dogs.
Eventually we are going to be able to create a gene that gives us big red dogs starting off with rabbits or chipmunks. It really won't matter.
No human designed DNA. That is a fact. We can now engineer it and breeding is an indirect engineering, just like natural selection.
That is what Origin of Species is all about. Read it.
I've read it, but so much of it has been superceded by other stuff that's much more interesting and demonstrable.
Breeding new species of dogs ain't in it yet. Darwin was wrong to try to use that as an example.
Why are you obsessed by dogs? What about pigeons?
We have pigeons around here who are obviously into attempting to breed several different kinds of species ~ only works with one.
OK, you make absolutely no sense to me. Buhbye
Amazing that a fellow with your command of biology never saw pigeons "in season".
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