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To: jwalsh07
How many blue states do you think we will turn with this BS? You can most certainly forget about ever getting Pennsylvania, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire or Wisconsin back to our side.Meanwhile we will probably end up losing Colorado & Nevada and possibly Florida and Ohio.

Really? What evidence do you have to support this assertion?

What happened in Kansas the last time.

http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/seind02/c7/c7s1.htm#c7s1l4

"During most of the 20th century, probably the most contentious issue in science teaching has been whether evolution is taught or not taught in U.S. public school classrooms. The latest major dispute in this long-running battle was the Kansas State Board of Education's 1999 decision to delete evolution from the state's science standards. This event received widespread coverage in the press and sparked an outcry in the science community.[11] In addition, most of the public was not happy with the decision; 60 percent of Americans were opposed to the school board's action.[12] Moreover, most Kansans also felt the same way.[13] Thus, it was not too surprising when two board members who had voted for the change were defeated in the next election by candidates who supported the teaching of evolution. Subsequently, the reconstituted Kansas School Board reversed the decision.

So again, You push it you lose

Also See The American Religious Identification Survey

You can talk about the Godless Northeast all you want, but the fact is it's the West that's the least religious part of the country with Colorado & Nevada with a very high population of non-religious people. Ohio & Florida have high Catholic populations, Catholics seemed to have learned from that whole Galileo mess and are less anti-science as the Fundamentalist.

And

According to the Southern Baptist Council on Family Life

-- 88 percent of the children raised in evangelical homes leave church at the age of 18, never to return.

So if your own children aren't buying what you are selling why do you think the rest of the country will?

and finally history,

Whenever religion butts head with science religion will always lose in the end though not without extreme damage done by Christians. 

Geocentricism, the smallpox vaccine, lightning rods were all opposed by fundamentalist but science won out. The same will happen with evolution. Even if you get your way and eliminate evolution in America, the study & uses evolution will go on, we will just lose out to the rest of the world.

Certainly not the exit polling from the last election where neither evolution nor intelligent design placed on issues concerning Americans.

And lets keep that way

Of course, moral values did place, right at the top of the list. And lo and behold guess what happened? Yup, you got it, the Republicans extended their majorities all across the nation.

HUH?

Rejecting science, forfeiting our technical superiority to the Chinese & Indians and moving back to the dark ages is considered a moral value????

522 posted on 08/19/2005 6:01:52 AM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: qam1

In other words, you have ZERO, none, nada, zip data to support your assertion. You could have saved yourself some time by just admitting that.


524 posted on 08/19/2005 6:05:47 AM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: qam1

Nice, meaty post, a rarity.

I had forotten the smallpox issue.

You might add anaesthesia for childbirth. Talk about going against Genesis for the literalists.

There was also the "Doctrine of Signatures" which said that if one could spot a resemblance between a plant part and a body part, God had provided that plant to be used to cure diseases of the relevant part.


534 posted on 08/19/2005 6:41:37 AM PDT by From many - one.
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