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To: Hacksaw
Check out post 37...he still hasn't answered up, even though he later had time to come back to the thread and post 425 words about soil.

I guess he's having a lot of trouble finding the Creationist equivalent of Mein Kampf. To say I'm not surprised would be to engage in MASSIVE understatement.

143 posted on 01/04/2007 9:32:47 AM PST by Mr. Silverback ("Safe sex? Not until they develop a condom for the heart."--Freeper All the Best)
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147 posted on 01/04/2007 9:54:52 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: Mr. Silverback; Hacksaw
You question my distrust of religious fundamentalists, and my belief that they would establish a theocracy if they could?

There are already many examples where legislation or administration (e.g., school boards) have attempted to get biblical creation taught in science classes.

"Creation science" was booted by the US Supreme Court in the late 1980s. This led to the famous Wedge Strategy by the Discovery Institute.

Since then we have had several cases decided by the courts, each affirming that creationism or ID are not science and should not be taught in science classes (Dover and the recent "sticker" decision come to mind).

These cases came to the courts because fundamentalists attempted to use the power of government to spread their religious beliefs.

Do I believe that fundamentalists have attempt to use the power of government to spread their religious beliefs. Yes, this is clear from the court records.

I also believe that if fundamentalists of a like belief were more numerous in government, or more powerful politically, that they would be trying even harder, and perhaps would be more successful in promoting their religious belief through the power of the state.

You seem to doubt this, but its there for all to see in Dover and a lot of other communities.

And its here on FR as well. How many times have those who support science been condemned to hell? How many times have scientists been told that we are no better than communists or Nazis?

No, I would not like to live under a theocracy run by such folks, nor would I like to try to do any of the sciences I mentioned upthread at the whim of such folks.

168 posted on 01/04/2007 6:40:48 PM PST by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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To: Mr. Silverback
I guess he's having a lot of trouble finding the Creationist equivalent of Mein Kampf. To say I'm not surprised would be to engage in MASSIVE understatement.

I'm too busy plotting with the Pope to take over the world to worry about it anyway.

175 posted on 01/04/2007 11:28:15 PM PST by Hacksaw (Frohe Weihnachten!)
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