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if you appreciate logic and reason and discussion based on reality, this story will make you sick.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... Id=4730645

if you watch the hands of time, you can actually see them going very slowly backwards..
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The good news is that despite the criticism of the teachings generally, the good folks at the school adopted the textbook complete with teachings about natural selection. Woohoo!
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"the good news".. isn't that christian propaganda? seriously, though, it is good that they at least gave it a chance.. could be worse, right?
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Post by Spragwa »

Christian hasn't posted in this thread yet so we cannot know whether it's Christian propaganda.

It could be worse. The interesting part of the story is that conservative fundamentalist Christians have been honing their arguments against Darwinism and in favor of creationism since the monkey trials in Dayton. Just goes to show that certain arguments never die just percolate.
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And the Earth is flat too! And the sun actually revolves around the Earth! Galileo and others before him were persecuted by the catholic church for suggesting otherwise and it wasn't until the 1980's that the church officially apologized...

I think religion should stick to answering "why" and they should let Science deal with the "how".
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Post by Saxman »

It's too bad atheists don't do missionary work.
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does it. ahhhhhhh!
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i remember seeing a quotation somewhere that went something along the lines of "we can rejoice since we have been freed from the responsibility of ever being original".

it's not their beliefs that i'm offended by.. it's their presentation of the sciences that makes me incredibly sad. that's not to say, though, that the opposite isn't true. i guess it applies to just about every dichotomy: we exaggerate and magnify the peripheries and extremes of a belief, we make it seem utterly ridiculuous by misrepresenting their cases. look at politics.. and those republican bitches ;)

it was albert einstein that said, "science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
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