[GodGunsGuts]

Ping!

[freedumb2003]

Another comedy book!

Where do you find this stuff? Between the issues of “Cracked” and “Tales from the Crypt?”

[stanz]

This is how Wikipedia describes Discovery Institute:

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.

[gundog]

Copernicus was at odds with his contemporaries, as well. Should we dump the heliocentric model of the solar system?

[Moonman62]

Many writers on Darwin pay scant attention to The Descent of Man. Yet it is there where Darwin demonstrates the sweeping way that he applied his theory to human beings and human morality. Darwin makes clear in the book that the noble qualities of his own character, his devotion in marriage, his love for his children, even the compassion that fueled his opposition to slavery...

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?

[Moonman62]

Biologist Asa Gray at Harvard was Darwin’s strongest champion in America. However, as Wiker tells us, “Gray believed that the human mind could not be explained as the material result of natural selection.” He did not see how mind could arise from instinct. Charles Lyell, Darwin’s friend and an eminent scientist in his own right, and Alfred Russel Wallace, the co-discoverer with Darwin of the theory of evolution through natural selection, both believed that the evidence did not show an evolutionary continuum between the mental faculties of apes and man. So-called “savages” (members of tribal and other non-European races) have intellectual capacities that far exceed their survival needs; there is no Darwinian way to account for this.

This was relevant news 150 years ago. Not today.

[what's up]

Very interesting.

Thanks.

[count-your-change]

The Darwinists are now trying to redefine “special”.

“Analyzing the politics of climate change
Friday, June 12, 2009 11:56:27 AM · 21 of 22
freedumb2003 to count-your-change
If anyone can’t imply you are using it as a strawman, then they are as ill-informed as you. I was trying to make it clear that YOU are saying people who know science use that argument — which was your point (unless I am mistaken).

Trust me, quote-mining is what creationists do.

As I said, your strawman won’t hunt. You can play it over and over and it never changes. AGW and TToE are completely different in terms of science and all your misunderstanding, misinformation and conspiracy-nut creationist sites won’t change that.

And you certainly are not worth my time, but other people read these threads and I want them to know that most Conservatives understand science, know the difference between real science, such as TToE, and fad science, like AGW, and no science at all, like creationism.

This is for them, not you.”

What!??!

You and your ilk need to be “special,” so you invest heavily in this “I am closer to God because I reject science” nonsense.

Well, you are special all right.

[Oztrich Boy]

Breaking New Flash: Scientists argue about details: Zoetrope at 11!