Judge grills Dover official [Dover trial 11/1/05]

York (PA) Daily Record ^ | 11/1/2005 | LAURI LEBO

[mlc9852]

Yeah, but I don't care. I just am amazed that evos get so worked up about something that they say is not threat to evolution. If it's not threat, then why the uproar?

[From many - one.]

Fighting back is not an uproar.

Neither is determination.

The uproar, such as it is, is coming from the stealth creationists who want to sneak their religion into our public schools and don't like getting caught.

[mlc9852]

I think you have it backwards but time will tell. Eventually the SC will decide what can be taught in school, just as they should. That is the job of the highest court.

[RightWingNilla]

But it's not like I lay awake at night thinking about them (atheists)

Meanwhile you have apparently gone through the trouble to determine if any of your kid's teachers from K-12 were atheists.

It sounds like you are downright obsessed with atheists.

[mlc9852]

You are again wrong. The most exposure I have ever had to atheists is right here on FR which surprised me. I would have expected atheists to be democrats.

[js1138]

You are again wrong. The most exposure I have ever had to atheists is right here on FR which surprised me. I would have expected atheists to be democrats.

Not all the people who accepted the Copernican solar system are atheists, and most of the people who accept evolution are not atheists. It took hundreds of years for the Copernican shape of the cosmos to saturate the common perception. And during all that time, the earth revolved around the sun, regardless of what people believed.

[mlc9852]

What is your point? And aren't you getting tired of this thread yet?

[js1138]

I've been out of town for three days. Fresh as a daisy. Besides, It's getting closer to the time when these perjurers get slapped down, and I'm feeling pretty good.

[mlc9852]

Ping me when the indictments come down.

[Thatcherite]

The most exposure I have ever had to atheists is right here on FR which surprised me. I would have expected atheists to be democrats.

Exactly why would you expect atheists to be democrats? Or is this just more bigotry? The association between Republicanism and Christianity (particularly fundamentalist Christianity) in the US is a comparatively modern phenomenon. Perhaps you don't realise that in many countries round the world it is Christianity and Socialism that march hand-in-hand.

[mlc9852]

And I recently heard that only 55 percent of Britons believe in God. Doesn't surprise me.

[b_sharp]

"You are again wrong. The most exposure I have ever had to atheists is right here on FR which surprised me. I would have expected atheists to be democrats"

Some democrats are atheists. You really do live in an 'either or' world.

[mlc9852]

Really I don't. It's just entertaining to see your reactions since I'm not really busy at work today.

[b_sharp]

"And I recently heard that only 55 percent of Britons believe in God. Doesn't surprise me"

Did you just try to insult Thatcherite and other Britons? Pretty funny.

[mlc9852]

I heard that on the news (forget which station) the other night. Don't blame the messenger.

[Diplomat]

The association between Republicanism and Christianity (particularly fundamentalist Christianity) in the US is a comparatively modern phenomenon.

I wish I had more time to continue this thread and discuss issues not pertaining to my interpretation of the U.S.Consitution. Throw the following into any search engine of your choice and then please come back and revise your statement: "Christian abolitionists", "founding of the Republican party," "Abraham Lincoln," and "ending salvery in the U.S.".

You'll discover that Christians founded the Republican party. And back in those days, it was still acceptable to allow your Christian beliefs to influence your public policy descision making and voting.

Another poster earlier went on about Christianity supporting slavery or some such thing. The truth is, if it wasn't for Christians, slavery in America would not have been ended when it did.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Most of this stems from Nixon's "Southern Strategy." Many Southern Democrats (especially the segregationists) moved to the GOP.

[PatrickHenry]

Most of this stems from Nixon's "Southern Strategy." Many Southern Democrats (especially the segregationists) moved to the GOP.

Right. The grandparents of these "republicans" were solid democrats, chanting their creationist slogans during the Scopes trial of the 1920s.

[js1138]

Most of this stems from Nixon's "Southern Strategy." Many Southern Democrats (especially the segregationists) moved to the GOP.

Along with their populism and anti-business ethic.

It would have been better in the long run for the GOP to stick with the Republican president who busted the segregationists in Clinton's home state.

[longshadow]

....chanting their creationist slogans during the Scopes trial of the 1920s.

"Monkey see;

monkey do....

Charlie Darwin....

screw you, too!"