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
Some things were said in parables..
Yes , the creation story for example.
It was a way people with zero sense of science could explain what they saw in nature. God created the universe , evolution was the method He used. It wasen’t literally done in days.
>It wasen’t literally done in days.
But that’s what it says.
Jesus confirmed it when He spoke of Adam and Eve.
To doubt Genesis is to call Jesus a liar. Since Jesus was “God manifest in the flesh” then to doubt Genesis is to doubt God too.
God? Isn’t that the same fella Obama allegedly believes in?
Okfine.
yes, they were days with light in the morning and darkness in the evening.
I’m glad you said it. I was too busy cleaning off the water I spit on my screen.
Of course it was done in days. There is absolutely no Biblical reason to believe it was done in any span of time other than that which God stipulated. God is all powerful, He can create a mountain in an instant even if by our measure and science it would take untold eons. God certainly didn’t use evolution to do anything since that theory is illogical and doesn’t fit into the evidence (fossile record) that we’ve discovered.
So, how you stand with Santa Claus?
I’ll leave those little fellows to you, since you obviously specialize in fiction. I specialize in Truth. :)
Jindal Derangement Syndrome is just over the horizon.
Liberals and Dems believe he lives in Washington DC.
What you have is a great moral lesson that's inspired women throughout Eur-Asia for tens of thousands of years, and you dismiss it so easily.
It's in the Bible hot-shot, so it's TRUE.
Lot is in the Bible, not reindeer man or santa claus...what the heck are you talking about?
I wasn’t referring to Lot and his wife, but your fictional characters.
Satan is a counterfeitor of Truth, so it should be of no surprise to any Christian that pagan beliefs are often reflections of biblical truths.
There's nothing about intelligent design in Genesis I. God does everything by fiat. The world functions at His command, not by His design.
It's interesting that it was such a good story, and so meaningful to women that it was handed down intact to the time when the Jews learned to read and write.
So, yeah, right there's "intelligent design".
I just have to interject my favorite movie quote. It's between Art Carney, as a semi-retired PI, and Roger Moore, as a client who picked him out of the phone book at random, convinced someone is trying to kill him.
Carney tells Moore to get a gun. Moore says, "I don't believe in guns," and Carney replies, "... and I don't believe in Santa Claus, but he still comes every year."
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