Posted on 03/24/2007 10:44:48 PM PDT by Diago
It belongs in a civics class, civics and/or modern history -- but is belongs in some class!
There's a principle that the Principal is your "pal". In your situation, obviously, the Principal was not, and so your spelling is correct.
Well I put the word twice in that post and the first time I spelled it correctly. Please, oh mighty spelling moderator, may I at least get half a credit for that?
In this case your "Principal" does not deserve to have her title spelled correctly. I give you a gold star!
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I'm thinking you really didn't read the article????
Regardless of whether the firing was justified Laskin is playing dirty here.
And it took eight hours for somebody to notice that. I knew being the only one reading it would have beeb a waste of time.
You have such an appropriate tagline.
That's because I wrote it for this discussion :-) See, it changed from 53 / 54.
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The left will do anything to protect their evil agenda!
One thing you can always count on is a leftist defending his cause by insulting the belief of his opposition.
Defend Darwinism, if you can, with proof, not insults. To me, and others like me, it takes a nut to believe that all of this happened by chance and we reach that conclusion by applying scientific facts into what you would call a belief.
...than it is for them to do some actual research and tests and produce some papers or fossil predictions, DNA marker predictions, ANYTHING, that points to Intelligent Design being a workable theory.
You assume that those of us who believe in God do so blindly and ignore science so that our beliefs wont be challenged. You assume wrong.
Darwinism is a theory at best with no scientific proof that I have ever seen other than pointing at the slow water buffalo that gets caught by a lion and calling it proof (I see it as part of God's perfect design in that the lion needed to eat, so he made slow water baffalos). You brought up the Earth's location in the universe, it is scientific fact that if this planet and all the other planets were not in the exact location that they are in then life would not be possible on Earth, the odds of that happening by chance are too incredible to even comprehend and then rationally say it is fact.
You demand proof of God, then look around, proof of God is everywhere. Show me proof that God does not exist, other than theory.
Interestingly, that phrase can be found on every one of the 26 campuses in the University of Wisconsin System...
Suffice it to say, none of them live up to it.
Just as you can count on "moral conservatives" to defend their cause by making ad hominem attacks on anyone not in total agreement with them.
Check out the current mega-thread on daddy-daughter purity balls. Anyone admitting to feeling uncomfortable with the idea of men publically proclaiming the virginity of their preteen daughter on a dancedate is accused of supporting debauchery.
I wont argue with that... the best definition of "sin" I have ever heard is "anything that you do that I don't".
I'm pretty darned conservative, and I thought the idea was a odd/creepy. You don't need a ceremony for it.
Eugenics is flawed, with the odd combination of Special Creation and Special Delivery that is creationism or with Evolution.
Eugenics presumes that a central authority (like the Nazi State) can do three things.
1. Predict what the future will demand
2. Predict what traits will be most successful in the future.
3. Remove traits that will be bad in the future, and retain traits that will lead to success in the future.
Since central authority can not create a successful state in the future, they should not be trusted to create a successful state in the future. For example, Nazi Germany did not accurately predict their failure in WWII.
Because they could not predict the future, they could not predict the skills or traits needed. For example, no effort was devoted to selection for better keyboard or mouse skills.
Since bad traits are often conflated with good trates, the ability to remove bad and keep good doesn't happen. For example, Patton's spacial ability enabled him to conceive and execute slashing armored attack. This spacial ability was closely linked with his well documented difficulty in reading. His profanity was linked with his ability to motivate. His concepts of manliness and honor were closely linked with his impulsiveness leading to the famous slapping incident.
All this is true, whether we have humans trying to act to supplant nature, or whether we have humans trying to supplant G-d. The cruelty and failures of Eugenics are not an argument against Evolution, or against Creationism. They are arguments against being a monster.
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