Posted on 06/12/2009 8:49:22 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
Ping!
Another comedy book!
Where do you find this stuff? Between the issues of “Cracked” and “Tales from the Crypt?”
The Discovery Institute is a conservative non-profit public policy U.S. think tank based in Seattle, Washington, best known for its advocacy of intelligent design and its Teach the Controversy campaign to teach creationist anti-evolution beliefs in United States public high school science courses.[2][3][4][5][6] A federal court, along with the majority of scientific organizations, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, say the Institute has manufactured the controversy they want to teach by promoting a false perception that evolution is "a theory in crisis", through incorrectly claiming that it is the subject of wide controversy and debate within the scientific community.[7][8][9] In 2005, a federal court ruled that the Discovery Institute pursues "demonstrably religious, cultural, and legal missions",[10] and the institute's manifesto, the Wedge strategy, describes a religious goal: to "reverse the stifling dominance of the materialist worldview, and to replace it with a science consonant with Christian and theistic convictions".[11][12]
No fair and balanced reporting here.
Copernicus was at odds with his contemporaries, as well. Should we dump the heliocentric model of the solar system?
That means alot coming from someone who has embraced Darwood’s mindless creation myth...LOL!
So why does GGG hate Darwin so much?
If adultery or infanticide or even slavery of the weak by the strong (as practiced by red ants enslaving black ants) promoted the survival of a species, including the human species
But those things don't benefit the human species. What's the problem?
This was relevant news 150 years ago. Not today.
Copernicus was a creationist—and modern creationists are in full agreement with his notion that we live in a galactocentric Universe.
Thanks for the ping!
Take a look at this picture - how many galaxies do you see? How many billions of stars does this represent? In what twisted universe can you possible imagine your "galactocentric" view.
Looks like they’ve got their number.
that’s “Copernicus” and “possibly”
“That means alot coming from someone who understands science.”
There — fixed.
So, you're open to post-modern Creationists debunking it?
>>So why does GGG hate Darwin so much? <<
There is a personality type that needs to be “special” (usually a as result of being ignored or abused as a child). These people look for niche opportunities to make themselves “special” to make up for the attention they didn’t get as children.
Finding a niche spot of small-minded people who espouse a perspective that can only be understood and reinforced by others with the same need to be “special” is how they survive.
Some of these people become complete conspiracy nuts and trvthers, others Scientologists and the like, and others creationists (note these are not mutually exclusive groups). To be fair, I need to note that people who have not been exposed to science and are only taught creation are a special case. But they don’t understand science out of ignorance. The special crowd aggressively decry and refuse science even though it is clear as a bell.
You notice that anything that is said, like noting the billions of solid scientific facts and millions of practitioners across hundreds of years is dismissed with “you are just part of the Grand Conspiracy” (paraphrasing).
ggg is Exhibit 1. He posts these articles to prove he is “one of the Chosen” and thus convince himself, once again, he is “special.” Then, the echo chamber shows up and they ricochet across the thread “yes, you are special” “you are special too” “you too” “we are all special.”
On a good day, he gets me to show up so they can all say “a Heretic! He isn’t special like us! Attack! use ‘darwinism’ derisively! Say science is a religion! We need PROOF we are special!” Internally, they are saying “THANK YOU THANK YOU FD2003 for helping us prove we ARE special!”
Pretty easy analysis if you follow more than one of these threads.
That is SO hilarious -- and stolen!
Debunking what?
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