[R. Scott]

There are people right here in the USA who won’t be happy until they can establish a theocracy – and the schools are always a good place to start.

[D-fendr]

No need, Atheism is already the firmly established religion in public schools.

[digitalbrownshirt]

I think we usually call them Muslems, who are you talking about?

[DesertSapper]

Typical comment from those who aren't willing to accept scrutiny into a flawed pseudo-scientific theory.

I don't want a theocracy - I just want a moral society. Without our God-fearing founding fathers their wouldn't be a USA - but you could have some 4th rate middle eastern Sharia government.

[Ultra Sonic]

What are you talking about?

Believe it or not, there ARE people who don't want evolution to be taught as fact. Sure, shed light on it...but keep in mind that is A THEORY. And a flawed one at that.

[Dr.Hilarious]

I think you're right, but there are also plenty of people who have been trying to convince me--an agnostic--that secularism is not an ideology. Like most fanatics, those who would rub the word "God" from every public place are convinced their way is OF COURSE not some ideology, it's just "the way things should be."

I'm always on the lookout for those who, whatever they say, try to make their particular religion part of our government, but I have to admit I find the most rabid fanatics--the most hateful ones--are on the secularist side, who pretend they're not pushing an ideology.

[Dutch Boy]

What happens when most of the evidence used in the trial was proved to be fabricated or scientifically incorrect.... Oooops, that already happened.

[qam1]

1st Evolution, Then comes Biblical Astronomy

http://www.geocentricity.com

Yes, They are for real

[truth_seeker]

"There are people right here in the USA who won’t be happy until they can establish a theocracy –"

A lot of them are prominently here, at FR.

I call them "theocons."

[bahblahbah]

Too late, atheistic humanism is already the state sponsored religion. And don't claim that doesn't count because its in the same market.

[trebb]

There are people right here in the USA who won’t be happy until they can establish a theocracy – and the schools are always a good place to start.

Why do those who absolutely hate the teachings of the Bible sound so like religious extremists when it comes to being upset at those who will not embrace the theory (it really is a theory and has no more real proof than creation (Intelligent design for the PC folks) of evolution?

I have no problem of our schools talking about evolution as a theory, but they should also discus creation just as seriously.

What I really get disgusted with is those who have closed minds trying to dis those who disagree with them as closed minded. When scientists put on blindres, they only see what they want to see and miss the other 359 degree panorama.

[Matchett-PI]

"There are people right here in the USA who won’t be happy until they can establish a theocracy

The Framers of our founding documents set up our government according to the principles of the Biblical Worldview to ensure that that can never happen.

If the origional intent of the Constitution they drew up is upheld and defended against those who want to illigitimately call it a "living document", it will be impossible for any tyrannical mentality on the extreme right or the extreme left to obtain absolute power and control to impose his personal conscience on the rest of us.

The founders of the United States of America believed that all men were created with equal authority. Thus they declared the following principle as the foundation of their political union. They said:

" 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. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

The founders also believed that this concept of equal authority was taught in the Bible. They used Sir Walter Blackstone’s Commentary on Law to explain and illustrate this Biblical concept. The following is from Blackstone's "Commentary on Law" concerning the equality of mankind at creation:

"If man were to live in a state of nature, unconnected with other individuals, there would be no occasion for any other laws, than the law of nature, and the law of God. Neither could any other law possibly exist; for a law always supposes some superior who is to make it; and in a state of nature we are all equal, without any other superior but him who is also the author of our being."

This phrase "law of nature" was explained by Blackstone a little earlier in his "Commentary on Law" in the following manner:

"This law of nature, being coeval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe in all countries, and at all times; no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this: and such of them as are valid derive all their force, and all their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original."

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"....four basic principles. ...summed up by an eminent English statesman and jurist, Sir James Stephen, as follows: "These principles were, firstly that the will of the people was the one legitimate source of the power of the rulers; secondly, that the power was most properly delegated by the people, to their rulers, by means of elections, in which every adult man might exercise the right of suffrage; thirdly, that in ecclesiastical government, the clergy and laity were entitled to an equal and co-ordinate authority; and fourthly that between the Church and State, no alliance, or mutual dependence, or other definite relation, necessarily or properly existed."