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Bobby Jindal and the GOP Don’t Believe in Evolution
US NEWS ^ | 12-4-08 | Farell

Posted on 12/04/2008 7:05:01 PM PST by Wegotsarah.com

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's recent trip to Iowa, where they hold those presidential caucuses every four years, leads me to suspect he may share the media speculation that he could be the Next Great Thing in the Republican Party.

It also reminded me how Jindal signed a dumb and devious bit of legislation last summer, allowing local school districts to promote alternative (i.e., religious) doctrines in their science curriculums when it comes to evolution.

Jindal is obviously one bright guy. How can he equate ancient creation myths with the hard facts of physics and biology?

One might think that the Republicans learned something from the drubbing they took in the 2006 and 2008 elections. But like Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee (and John McCain in 2008), Jindal is apparently happy to cater to the religious right, even if it means teaching superstition in the classroom


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To: llandres

Evolution IS intelligent design.

That is to say, parts of evolution theory. To some extent God created and within His creation He designed life in such a way that we would interpret His work as evolution.

The cult of evolution gets way too carried away and presents idiocy like we’re all just great apes.

Origins is where evo-cultists and godless liberal NEA types go completely off the rails.


81 posted on 12/04/2008 8:42:40 PM PST by tpanther (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Edmund Burke)
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To: SMCC1

Jindal is magnitudes brighter than the author and Obama combined.


82 posted on 12/04/2008 8:46:20 PM PST by WildcatClan (AND THOSE DOESNT BRAIN JUST GO. ---- Cecile Noe)
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To: Wegotsarah.com
Republicans only have themselves to thank for systematically alienating every single person in this country who is not white, rich and Christian (evangelical preferred).
Actually, if you put all the non-white, non-rich, and non-Christian people in one group, I think you'd get at most 20% of the population. OK, maybe 25%.

If the left thinks that it is going to stay in power by positioning itself as the party opposed to 75% of the country, well, let's just see how that works out for them in the next few years. Obama may be black, but that doesn't mean that "black people won the election." Obama won the election because a lot of white people voted for him in addition to nearly all blacks who voted.

I hope this comment is an indication that the left is going to spiral into a frenzy of identity politics because if it does, the "age of Obama" won't last more than four years (and less if you count them losing Congress in 2010).

83 posted on 12/04/2008 8:47:46 PM PST by Mr. Know It All
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To: Cicero

Precisely.

Moreover, they have to sue people to be silent to get their version of science enforced. As if only atheists get to decide what is or isn’t science.

They’re not about the scientists deciding science, but liberal activist judges, godless liberal NEA types, etc.

These scientists from MIT, Johns Hopkins, Princeton etc. disagree with the cult of evoltuion and DO offer scientific alternatives but the cultists scream idiocy like ‘theocracy and burnings at the stake’ everytime they’re even mentioned.

www.dissentfromdarwin.org

Funny thing is, when you click on “scientists” you don’t see anything remotely “religious” in their scientifc views.


84 posted on 12/04/2008 8:50:02 PM PST by tpanther (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Edmund Burke)
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To: BenLurkin

They hate God, successful business, self responsibility, accountability, and the foundations of this nation

I fear the upcoming 4 years very much. We have to have to win back Congress in 2010


85 posted on 12/04/2008 8:51:18 PM PST by MadIsh32 (The token Muslim :))
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To: Wegotsarah.com
Jindal is obviously one bright guy. How can he equate ancient creation myths with the hard facts of physics and biology?

You would have never ever seen this tripe in USNWR which was conservative once upon a time

this reflects Mort Zuckerman's stewardship to a tee

86 posted on 12/04/2008 8:51:21 PM PST by wardaddy (Monarchists for Palin 2012)
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To: mysterio
But since you have evolved a more complex prefrontal cortex, you can never experience the "ignorant" peace that most other animals feel by default.

I hate to rain on your parade, but what about Obama voters? I would say that blissful ignorance is prerequisite for casting a vote in his direction :)

87 posted on 12/04/2008 8:52:34 PM PST by WildcatClan (AND THOSE DOESNT BRAIN JUST GO. ---- Cecile Noe)
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To: Mr. Know It All

Obama won for a whole host of reasons, but mainly because the press did not investigate him because they wanted him elected, and because he was more articulate and energetic than old McCain, who excited no one, and Obama promised the middle class tax breaks just like Clinton did. But just as Clinton did Obama will reneg on those promises once in office. That $250,000 ceiling will be down to $42,000 by the time he’s done with it.

Then Republicans should NEVER stop calling him on it, that he broke his promise. Republicans didn’t hold Clinton responsible for his broken promise, but I hope they learn that they need to do so this time!


88 posted on 12/04/2008 8:55:40 PM PST by deannadurbin
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To: dr_lew

No, I’m just a believer in the word of God … I have never forced my ideas on anyone. I believe the Bible literally, and that is good enough for me. Consider me a fool, as most would in the world today, so be it … Jesus knows my heart.


89 posted on 12/04/2008 8:59:27 PM PST by doc1019
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To: Wegotsarah.com
Obviously, the propaganda message is orchestrated from on high-as I see this same theme in the comment sections of many websites.

These very same liberals have infiltrated this board claiming that somehow to side with the godless liberal fascist NEA is the conservative position.

What's truly comical is they make claims like they're Conservative and that they actually think we don't know exactly who they are!

90 posted on 12/04/2008 9:00:50 PM PST by tpanther (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Edmund Burke)
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To: WildcatClan

I have to admit that the GOP is at a severe disadvantage if its leaders continue to be belligerent towards evolution. The Biblical creation account is perfectly compatible with evolution, and we don’t have to allegorize/mythologize the Bible to do it. Just accept the Genesis account for what it is: a Sportscenter highlight given to Moses in a vision. All the details are simplified and the timing is compressed, but the facts are still dead-on accurate (when you account for language difficulties). Nor do we need to compromise on the theological significance of Genesis: e.g. Adam was literally created by God from dust, and he and his wife sinned and ruined the relationship with God that originally existed. Naturalistic evolution does not conflict with any of this.

And unfortunately, intelligent design is not much different from creationism. It is philosophy, which is fine and can be taught as such, but it isn’t science and shouldn’t be taught in school. However, I will admit that it is irritating for teachers to promote their philosophy (atheism) when they teach evolution, but I’m not sure how to handle that.


91 posted on 12/04/2008 9:10:15 PM PST by publius_in_abq
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To: deannadurbin
Right, but the upshot of all of these things was that enough white people voted for Obama to get him elected — regardless of why, the fact is that they did.

There was another thing I realized after I posted that: Jindal's parents are immigrants from India, making him one of those non-white people that are supposedly all Democrats. The guy who posted this comment is an idiot... I guess I didn't need to point that out. :)

92 posted on 12/04/2008 9:10:40 PM PST by Mr. Know It All
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To: publius_in_abq

BTW, even though I am an evangelical Christian who belives in evolution (and doesn’t want ID taught in science class), I do believe the magnitude, threat, and cause of global warming is being manipulated and exaggerated in order to push a radical leftist political agenda.


93 posted on 12/04/2008 9:13:27 PM PST by publius_in_abq
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To: Wegotsarah.com
"...Every day, more old, white christians die while younger brown people, athiests, women, etc get to vote. Are they going to vote Republican, the so-called party of God? Hell no! Republicans only have themselves to thank for systematically alienating every single person in this country who is not white, rich and Christian (evangelical preferred). That base is dying..."

Obviously, the propaganda message is orchestrated from on high

Actually, the propaganda message is orchestrated from deep below...

94 posted on 12/04/2008 9:25:15 PM PST by Alex Murphy ( "Every country has the government it deserves" - Joseph Marie de Maistre)
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To: tpanther
These very same liberals have infiltrated this board

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I actually posted a vanity thread on your point during the election. On my small website, I get maybe say, 200 hits a day. But, any time I posted a thread on FR during the election, I'd get hundreds in a matter of 15 minutes, and say 1500 through the course of the thread----and I know the overwhelming majority of those hits weren't from regular Freepers, because you know as well as I, only a few Freepers hit on a local blog.

I know Freepers are aware the Storm Troopers lurk, but I don't think they know the extent. -:)

95 posted on 12/04/2008 9:28:30 PM PST by Wegotsarah.com (My amateur blog--www.wegotsarah.com)
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To: Wegotsarah.com

You can spot them pretty quick.

They’ll contort themselves into pretzels defending:

ACLU

NEA

gay marriage

and they’re just ate up with BDS, PDS...


96 posted on 12/04/2008 9:43:41 PM PST by tpanther (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Edmund Burke)
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To: Wegotsarah.com

oh yeah...all things Christian, separation of church and state madness...IGWT on coins...and on and on and on.


97 posted on 12/04/2008 9:44:52 PM PST by tpanther (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Edmund Burke)
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To: Wegotsarah.com

“How can he equate ancient creation myths with the hard facts of physics and biology”

How can he equate physics and biology myths with the hard facts of ancient creation?

It depends upon your religion.


98 posted on 12/05/2008 4:49:47 AM PST by RoadTest (By their fruits shall ye know them.)
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To: Wegotsarah.com
The big bang theory essentially holds that something went bang and that the earth etc. ensued.

OK. So where did the something come from? (Whose something was it?) And what/who caused it to go bang?

99 posted on 12/05/2008 6:02:40 AM PST by OldEagle
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To: deannadurbin

You credit Satan with entirely too much wit. Guy’s a thug. He don’t need no books!


100 posted on 12/05/2008 6:04:24 AM PST by muawiyah
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