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• The War Against Creationist Pseudo-Science Continues
• Kansas Rejoins The 21st Century
• Pretend Museum To Depict A Pretend Science
• Intelligent Design On Trial
• Inherit The Wind Redux Part II
• Frist Goes Off The Deep End
• The Creationist War On Western Civilization
• Huckabee, Faith, And Reason, Part II
• Arthur C. Clarke, RIP
• Inherit The Wind Redux

10 Responses to “One Strike Against Sarah Palin”

1. James Atticus Bowden Says:
   August 30th, 2008 at 1:51 am

   Obama believes in the fallacy of so-called man-made, carbon-based, global climate change.

   Her beliefs won’t kill capitalism and promote socialism.

2. The Oath Says:
   August 30th, 2008 at 5:44 am

   But she gets a plus one for not believing the insanity of evolution through blind happenstance and chance.

3. Doug Mataconis Says:
   August 30th, 2008 at 6:19 am

   And a strike again for pretending that religious doctrine belongs in a science classroom

   Or that the Governor of a state has any business putting her nose in deciding what is and isn’t science

4. yarrrrrr Says:
   August 30th, 2008 at 8:32 am

   You’re wrong…

   http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/31088_Sarah_Palin_and_Creationism

5. The Oath Says:
   August 30th, 2008 at 9:51 am

   But then, yet another plus for recognizing that the teaching of opinions is a freedom issue. And surely, teaching the opinions of science, such as how matter hypothetically came into existence, isn’t something to force on children in facist fashion. After all, the children are free too aren’t they? After all, let us hearken back and head Mr. Jefferson:

   to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves is sinful and tyrannical; . . . ; that our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry, . . .

   Hmmmm? What sayest thou counselor. Would Mr. Jefferson approve of the lovely Alaska Governour’s education stance?

6. Doug Mataconis Says:
   August 30th, 2008 at 9:55 am

   TO,

   Pretending that religion is science is a joke and not something I want in a Mayor, Governor, or Vice-President.

   If she wants to teach creation myths to her kids in Sunday school, fine. But keep it out of the science classroom.

7. Mr. Newland Says:
   August 30th, 2008 at 11:52 am

   Mr. Mataconis, pretending that evolution (what you call science) is not a religion of humanism is even a bigger joke.
   Evolution has never been observed, can’t see it today (tell me where there are any humans evolving into another creature?), and is certainly not supported by the fossil record which is absent of transitional species - a must to substantiate evolution through mutation. Most mutations serve to damage DNA structure and eventually weaken and kill the host, so to get thousands or more of related “beneficial” mutations needed to create a new structure or new organism is a mathematical impossibility. Sorry.

   Equally so, your Big Bang theory is just as ridiculus. The Big Bang could no more have happened then if you took a car factory, spread out all the thousands of parts on the floor that make up a new car, blow up the plant and “poof” out comes a brand new shiny car. The 2nd law of thermodynamics, a law of physics observed in every laboratory on earth, states that every ordered system, open or closed, follows the tendency to run down, fall apart. They don’t become more complex, then explode to then run down or form other systems that will “run down”, such as what we are seeing with our own universe today. Your science has been reduced to a humanistic religion which you follow by blind faith - no proof, just blind faith. So, if your humanistic religion is allowed to be taught to impressionable young minds, it seems right that creationism, which science cannot refute like what has occured with evolution, should also be taught side by side with it. In short, if you view the evolutionary chart created by your evolutionary priests, then you will begin to notice, with a little bit of critical thinking, that they have made a monkey out of you.

8. The Oath Says:
   August 30th, 2008 at 3:11 pm

   Doug,

   You miss the point. I’m not arguing whether evolution or creationism is a factual science. I can argue that but that misses Jefferson’s intent. It is the decision, the opinion to teach those things, that runs afoul of the speech clause. In other words, compulsory public ejukashun is an opinion factory.

   Whether we agree on creationism or evolutionism or any other ism is immaterial. If we are to have compulsory funded education, then we need to entertain all opinions about what that curriculum should be. Otherwise, give me my money back that is being forced from my pockets to teach those opinions to mine or anyone else’s opinion.

   If I wished to teach only evolution but not geometry or physics, then I should be allowed to furnish money for the propagation of those opinions I agree on. See?

9. Below The Beltway » Blog Archive » Just How Well Was Sarah Palin Vetted ? Says:
   September 2nd, 2008 at 10:55 am

   [...] in Dayton, when he said that she opposed the infamous Bridge-to-Nowhere. Next, we learned that she backed teaching so-called creation science, was a 1996 supporter of Pat Buchanan, and once belonged to a political party that argues for the [...]

10. AJ Says:
    September 10th, 2008 at 6:54 pm

    Go to this website if you want to know the truth about Science and Religion http://www.godandscience.org