Posted on 11/02/2005 3:35:41 AM PST by PatrickHenry
A school board member who was questioned by a federal judge about discrepancies in his testimony on the purchase of "intelligent design" textbooks was expected to return to the witness stand Wednesday.
Dover Area School Board member Alan Bonsell was to undergo redirect questioning by an attorney representing the board in a landmark trial over whether intelligent design can be introduced in high school science classes.
Bonsell testified Monday that he had received an $850 check from fellow board member William Buckingham. The check was made out to Bonsell's father, who volunteered to donate copies of "Of Pandas and People" to the district.
U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III asked Bonsell why he never shared that information in a January deposition when he was repeatedly asked under oath about who was involved in making the donation. Bonsell, who served as the board's president in 2004, said he misspoke. [Note to school board lawyers: When the judge asks your client why he's lying, it's usually not a good sign.]
Buckingham testified Thursday he collected $850 in donations to help purchase the books during a Sunday service at his church.
The board is defending its October 2004 decision to require students to hear a statement about intelligent design before ninth-grade biology lessons on evolution. The statement says Charles Darwin's theory is "not a fact," has inexplicable "gaps," and refers students to the textbook for more information.
Eight families are suing to have intelligent design removed from the biology curriculum because they believe the policy essentially promotes the Bible's view of creation, and therefore violates the constitutional separation of church and state.
Intelligent design supporters argue that natural selection, an element of evolutionary theory, cannot fully explain the origin of life or the emergence of highly complex life forms.
The trial began Sept. 26 and is expected to conclude on Friday.
I'll leave the link to the deleted #64 for a while. I'm too lazy to spend much time with this guy's material.
Ssssh. He's a Darwin Central infiltration agent. In fact, i've been meaning to suggest he tone it down a bit. Even a creationist is unlikely to be this furiously and crudely ignorant.
Hey that ain't fair as thet was me twigging cajungirl's tail over her reaction to someone else. Context is everything, like not ripping "wall of separation" from Jefferson's Danbury letter either and claiming that atheism is the official state religion.
The entire letter. What context is taken out?
Reply of Thomas Jefferson:
Messrs. Nehemiah Dodge, Ephraim Robbins & Stephen S. Nelson
A Committee of the Danbury Baptist Association in the State of Connecticut
Gentlemen:
The affectionate sentiments of esteem & approbation which you are so good as to express towards me on behalf of the Danbury Baptist Association, give me the highest satisfaction. My duties dictate a faithful and zealous pursuit of the interests of my constituents and in proportion as they are persuaded of my fidelity to those duties, the discharge of them becomes more and more pleasing.
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between Church and State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.
I reciprocate your kind prayers for the protection and blessing of the common father and creator of man, and tender you for yourselves and your religious association assurances of my high respect and esteem.
Thomas Jefferson
January 1, 1802
After further review of the "Selected Highlights" in #118, I have the strangest feeling that we've seen something just like this somehwere before...... hmmmmmmm; I wonder who it could have been......
Mandrake: No. No, I don't, Jack. No.
Ripper: Nineteen hundred and forty six. Nineteen fortysix, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your postwar commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual, and certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard core commie works.
What an amazing coincidence.... I knew the material in #118 was familiar......
Ripper: Well, I ah, I ... I first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of love.
Mandrake: [sighs fearfully]
Ripper: Yes a profound sense of fatigue, a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I was able to interpret these feelings correctly: loss of essence.
Mandrake: Yes...
Ripper: I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Women... women sense my power, and they seek the life essence. I do not avoid women, Mandrake, but I do deny them my essence.
Followed by Everson v. Board of Education (1947)
LOL.
I'll freepmail the official address. I am FSM's designate on FR (regardless of what anyone else says).
Gen. Ripper: I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
Jesus Christ may or may not belong in public schools.
However, that which is not empirical science does not belong in a class on empirical science.
If I didn't know better I'd say those two are the SAME PERSON!
What an amazing coincidence!
Mandrake: Well, no I... I can't say I have, Jack.
Ripper: Vodka. That's what they drink, isn't it? Never water?
Mandrake: Well I... I believe that's what they drink, Jack. Yes.
Ripper: On no account will a commie ever drink water, and not without good reason.
Mandrake: Oh, ah, yes. I don't quite.. see what you're getting at, Jack.
Ripper: Water. That's what I'm getting at. Water. Mandrake, water is the source of all life. Seven tenths of this earth's surface is water. Why, you realize that.. seventy percent of you is water.
Mandrake: Uhhh God...
Ripper: And as human beings, you and I need fresh, pure water to replenish our precious bodily fluids.
Mandrake: Yes. [chuckles nervously]
Ripper: You beginning to understand?
Mandrake: Yes. [chuckles. begins laughing/crying quietly]
Ripper: Mandrake. Mandrake, have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water, or rain water, and only pure grain alcohol?
Mandrake: Well it did occur to me, Jack, yes.
Ripper: Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation? Fluoridation of water?
Mandrake: Ah, yes, I have heard of that, Jack. Yes.
Ripper: Well do you now what it is?
Mandrake: No. No, I don't know what it is. No.
Ripper: Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face?
between the various "nazi commie monkey-worshipper" comments and the Dr.Strangelove excerpts used to lampoon them... this must be the most ridiculous CREVO thread ever.
He do have a way with words.
A letter has come into my hands. Here is part of it showing how huge this conspiracy is and how far reaching it is.
(exerpted):
"Dear Pope: 1593 A.D.
As you know I have been researching the history of Man..........It has come to my attention that the word 'human' is not Latin, but Sanskrit, from 'hanuman' the well known Hindu monkey God......... We all know that in Hindu theology, we rise by levels until we reach the deity. My research conclusively shows that the deity is Hanuman. In other words our existence here on Earth is part of our becoming one with a monkey.............I urge your holiness to cover this up. If it becomes popular knowledge the Earth will descend into chaos and turmoil...................
Yours, Prof. Fribbitz
FR University (located on an island somewhere off the coast of Transylvania)"
Unfortunately the pope at that time (late 1500's) was too busy with the French and English and Germans to do much, but his secrtetary made sure to change the definition to "humanus" from "Hanuman". The Catholic Church is part of this great conbspiracy!
The next stage is an old Victorian goof named Charles Darwin. He promulgated a theory that we descended from monkey and ape like ancestors. Fortunately the Vatican's strong arms got to him before he said we were all monkey's Uncles.
Recently the DNA sequence of Hanuman's (oops!, humans) and Chimp's have been determined. Once again the Vatican strong armed these people into saying we are only 98% similar. The truth is we are 100% the same.
This letter is crumbling before my very eyes, but the truth must be told.
WE ARE NOT DESCENDED FROM MONKEYS - WE ARE MONKEYS!.
Creationists and Evolutionists alike will both be astounded by this. We must tell the truth. When you achieve perfection and become one with the deity you will look like this:
http://www.sanatansociety.org/indian_epics_and_stories/the_life_of_hanuman.htm
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