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Creationist Bill Signed by Jindal
LGF ^ | June 27, 2008

Posted on 06/27/2008 2:04:21 PM PDT by EveningStar

Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal has signed a stealth creationist bill into law, and American educational standards take a huge step backward: Science law could set tone for Jindal.

The creationist front group called the Discovery Institute is quietly crowing, and maintaining the fiction that the bill is not religiously-based.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: bobbyjindal; churchandstate; crevo; education; jindal; mythology
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To: GourmetDan

and you think that this is any different than scientist saying “suddenly there was life”!. How do you justify that?


81 posted on 06/27/2008 3:35:38 PM PDT by calex59
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To: EveningStar
Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal has signed a stealth creationist bill into law, and American educational standards take a huge step backward...

This is the rhetoric of the desparate.

82 posted on 06/27/2008 3:36:16 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (the media vs. the people.)
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To: firebrand
"What is that wonderful phrase again? Nonoverlapping magisteria, or something like that. Even if it was uttered by an atheist, it's a nice phrase."

Yes, it was uttered by an atheist and you are foolish to believe it is a 'nice phrase'.

It is what has led you to believe that you can place the word of men above the Bible and claim that 'suppositions' have been disproved.

"You have said it yourself." Matthew 26:64 NASB

83 posted on 06/27/2008 3:36:19 PM PDT by GourmetDan (Eccl 10:2 - The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.)
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To: tacticalogic; GourmetDan

No, I just meant I didn’t think he was referring to natural phenomena that have been disproved. He was referring to Biblical events only I think.


84 posted on 06/27/2008 3:39:27 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: firebrand
No, I just meant I didn’t think he was referring to natural phenomena that have been disproved. He was referring to Biblical events only I think.

That ends up being an argument over what constitutes "proof", with the assertion that if you didn't actually see it happen, you can't prove that it did.

85 posted on 06/27/2008 3:41:21 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: GourmetDan
What is ludicrous is discounting the gravitational effect of the Sun to propose that the Milky Way galaxy is in any way arranged around the Earth/Sun system or close enough to pull the Sun around the earth without having any pull at all on the supposedly motionless Earth.

Gravity is predictable and measurable according the a handy dandy equation. I am quite CAPABLE of doing math and seeing that all your planetary gravity amounts to not even one hundredth of one percent of the gravitational effect of the Sun on the Earth. But I am not capable, apparently, of living in a fantasy world where gravity pulls the Sun around the Earth while mysteriously leaving the Earth motionless.

I have always contended that if you scratch a Creationist you will find that they have equally invalid and preposterous beliefs. You are walking proof.

Geocentricism!!!!! What a laugh riot!!!!

86 posted on 06/27/2008 3:41:29 PM PDT by allmendream (Life begins at the moment of contraception. ;))
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To: GourmetDan
The suppositions that people have made about the Bible are the words of men, too. I am not placing the words of men above the words of the Bible.

I think I am going to bow out of this discussion now, since I have other things to do and you are not really paying attention to what I'm saying. I should not have to defend my belief in the Bible to you.

87 posted on 06/27/2008 3:41:56 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: tacticalogic; GourmetDan

Nonetheless, that is what I think he meant.


88 posted on 06/27/2008 3:43:17 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: allmendream; GourmetDan
Apparently gravity is another theory you have fundamental problems with.

Your typical bag of tricks...


89 posted on 06/27/2008 3:44:15 PM PDT by WVKayaker (You mileage may vary.)
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To: GourmetDan

Are you against teaching science?


90 posted on 06/27/2008 3:46:15 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: PORD
Two evo’s set out to determine what the statistical probability of spontaneous generation of life and then develop into the life we have today, it was 1x10 to 140th power, not good odds.

And it's a bogus argument, since you are calculating the odds of life as we know it. For example, I can do the 20 coin tosses:

HHTHTTHHHTHTHHTTHTTH

The odds against that are 2^20, or 1 in 1,048,576. If you'd asked me beforehand to bet on that sequence, I'd probably decline as the odds are way against me. Yet here we are after the fact, with that one in a million result. In fact, that one result was just as likely as any other result. It is only betting on one end result that made those one in a million odds.

Recently on PBS there was a discussion that life came from space rocks that hit earth. I thought they were so cocksure it came from primordial slime.

That's the great thing about science, things change as more research is done and more knowledge comes available.

I do not understand why we just don’t bring on the debate that gives both sides adequate and fair opportunity to present their case.

That's a great idea. And the one that survives and comes into supremacy in the scientific world will be the one we teach to the kids as science. Oh wait, that's already been done.

91 posted on 06/27/2008 3:46:28 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: tacticalogic
Let's start with the once commonly accepted idea that maggots spontaneously generated from rotten meat.

...commonly accepted idea... more of the same...


92 posted on 06/27/2008 3:46:47 PM PDT by WVKayaker (You mileage may vary.)
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To: StevieJ

Okay, that was cold. :)


93 posted on 06/27/2008 3:46:56 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat
"It should be taught as the current state of scientific knowledge on the subject, as all science should be."

Your statement is self-contradictory. Evolution is an emotional response to fear; a sickness, and is as far from science as darkness is from light. Those that choose to disregard the total lack of evidence to support their imaginary hiding place, or its infinite statistical improbability, are the architects of their own futile struggle.

94 posted on 06/27/2008 3:47:24 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Jimmy Carter is the skidmark in the panties of American History)
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To: nobama08
It isn’t like students are learning science anyway.

What are they learning?

95 posted on 06/27/2008 3:48:44 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: GourmetDan
Here's to hoping that the 'evos' keep telling each other that (and believing it).

I've watched these debates, and that's what happens. The creationists are very sly, slippery suckers. I actually have to admire their ability, because they win over the crowd even though the other person is actually winning the debate.

96 posted on 06/27/2008 3:49:15 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: EveningStar
Look. This bill is an open, engraved invitation for ANY group with an agenda to come in an "game" the science curricula. Any of you creationists who think this will introduce more copies of The Discovery Institute's Of Pandas and People into Louisiana schools than of algore's An Inconvenient Truth, and other such leftoid propaganda, are smokin' crack.

Celebrate now, while your delusion lasts, 'cause this bill screams "unintended consequences".

97 posted on 06/27/2008 3:49:25 PM PDT by Stultis (I don't worry about the war turning into "Vietnam" in Iraq; I worry about it doing so in Congress.)
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To: EveningStar

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”


98 posted on 06/27/2008 3:49:33 PM PDT by ari-freedom (McCain must pick a conservative VP if he wants conservative support)
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To: EveningStar

YEC INTREP


99 posted on 06/27/2008 3:50:52 PM PDT by LiteKeeper (Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
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To: firebrand
You got it. Teleology in science is the ultimate logical fallacy.

You have to be fair. Science in theology is equally a fallacy. I say go ahead, let ID into the schools, as long as we can have Dawkins and his ilk teaching Sunday school in churches.

100 posted on 06/27/2008 3:51:06 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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