Carol and Tom Banks, of Prairie Village, attended the forum, saying they were getting tired of conservatives [AARRGGHH!!] controlling the political agenda. This co-mingling of "conservative" and "ID/creationism" will seriously damage conservative politics.
Conservatives have had the facts behind them in many recent political issues. 1) Welfare does more harm than good. 2) Monogamous, hertosexual couples are a superior way to maintain a culture that raises productive children. 3) Environmentalism isn't needed to "protect" the earth.
The examples can go on and on where conservatives have the facts on their side. But not this time. Evolution is an easily established fact to anyone with an open mind. We will lose this battle. And the worst part is that it's a complete waste because fighting against science will not advance school vouchers or good judges or stop the appeasement of tyrants overseas.
If we conservatives allow this issue to be pressed forward, will be shooting ourselves in the foot.
Over the next two years, if the MSM can successfully hang the albatross of anti-science around conservatisims neck, look for a full court press from the science channel and other outlets during the 2008 election, with entire TV series about evolution that will make conservatives look like idiots.
The only good part of this Kansas thing is that I'm from Oklahoma. I've lived with the legacy of the book and movie "Grapes of Wrath" all my life. The "Okie" label was instantly hung around my neck every time I met someone outside of the state and I told them where I was from. I don't think there was a single time I told someone where I was from in the 1970's that I was instantly laughed at with the response "Oh, you're an Okie from Muskogee". I wasn't laughed WITH, I was laughed AT. With these bozos in Kansas who don't know where and when to practice their faith, Kansas kids traveling outside the state will now get the treatment that we Okies got.
If we conservatives allow this issue to be pressed forward, will be shooting ourselves in the foot.It's a bit more serious than that. It's civilizational suicide.
Over the next two years, if the MSM can successfully hang the albatross of anti-science around conservatisims neck, look for a full court press from the science channel and other outlets during the 2008 election, with entire TV series about evolution that will make conservatives look like idiots.
Yes. Some of us have been shouting about this for a few years now. The MSM is going to paint us all as mindless followers of William Jennings Bryan.
The examples can go on and on where conservatives have the facts on their side. But not this time. Evolution is an easily established fact to anyone with an open mind. It depends upon what you mean by "evolution". If you mean, "any change in the frequency of alleles within a gene pool from one generation to the next" that's one thing. If you mean, the successive changes "that led from the earliest protoorganism to snails, bees, giraffes, and dandelions", that's quite another. The former is observable. The latter, however, purports to account for the natural development of all life from a simple beginning, which is not an observable, and which consequently is a completely unneccessary accounting for a thing that was never observed in the first place.
Cordially,