State Government at it again - Evolution

[guido911]

Who was bashing? Sensitive much?

Sorry, I didn't realize you answered for CF. I'll make a note for next time. 

[nathanm]

Sorry, I didn't realize you answered for CF. I'll make a note for next time. 

Am I not allowed to comment on other comments here? I thought this was an open forum. 

[Red Arrow]

Am I not allowed to comment on other comments here?

No, everyone else is but you are not.

[RecycleMichael]

Fwiw, the church of the flying spaghetti monster is an established religion with nonprofit status and followers.

The Gospel begins with the creation of the universe by an invisible and undetectable Flying Spaghetti Monster. On the first day, the Flying Spaghetti Monster separated the water from the heavens; on the second, because He could not tread water for long and had grown tired of flying, He created the land—complemented by a beer volcano. Satisfied, the Flying Spaghetti Monster overindulged in beer from the beer volcano and woke up hungover. Between drunken nights and clumsy afternoons, the Flying Spaghetti Monster produced seas and land (for a second time, accidentally, because he forgot that he created it the day before) along with Heaven and a midget, which he named Man. Man and an equally short woman lived happily in the Olive Garden of Eden for some time until the Flying Spaghetti Monster caused a global flood in a cooking accident.

[Gaspar]

The Gospel begins with the creation of the universe by an invisible and undetectable Flying Spaghetti Monster. On the first day, the Flying Spaghetti Monster separated the water from the heavens; on the second, because He could not tread water for long and had grown tired of flying, He created the land—complemented by a beer volcano. Satisfied, the Flying Spaghetti Monster overindulged in beer from the beer volcano and woke up hungover. Between drunken nights and clumsy afternoons, the Flying Spaghetti Monster produced seas and land (for a second time, accidentally, because he forgot that he created it the day before) along with Heaven and a midget, which he named Man. Man and an equally short woman lived happily in the Olive Garden of Eden for some time until the Flying Spaghetti Monster caused a global flood in a cooking accident.

I believe he has touched us with his noodly appendage.

[heironymouspasparagus]

The Gospel begins with the creation of the universe by an invisible and undetectable Flying Spaghetti Monster. On the first day, the Flying Spaghetti Monster separated the water from the heavens; on the second, because He could not tread water for long and had grown tired of flying, He created the land—complemented by a beer volcano. Satisfied, the Flying Spaghetti Monster overindulged in beer from the beer volcano and woke up hungover. Between drunken nights and clumsy afternoons, the Flying Spaghetti Monster produced seas and land (for a second time, accidentally, because he forgot that he created it the day before) along with Heaven and a midget, which he named Man. Man and an equally short woman lived happily in the Olive Garden of Eden for some time until the Flying Spaghetti Monster caused a global flood in a cooking accident.

I made spaghetti at home last night for dinner!  Yay, toast - oops, different song!

[cannon_fodder]

Guido,

First, your post had no point.  You merely pointed out that you thought it was another post supporting the seperation of church and state by bashing Christians.  You failed to address the central point:  we do not require "belief" litmus tests for Christians, so doing so to another's claimed belief is a double standard.

Second, I did no bashing at all.  You may not like how I flippantly summarized the main tenants of your religion, but how is that bashing?  Correct my interpretation if you want, my point still stands:

A government should not decide whose religi6ous beliefs are worthy of being taught to children.  Either government doesn't teach religion... or it teaches all the religions anyone brings forward.

Hollow be that colander.

[RecycleMichael]

I am a frisbee-tarian. I believe when you die you soul lands on the roof and stays there until a high wind.

[Red Arrow]

I am a frisbee-tarian. I believe when you die you soul lands on the roof and stays there until a high wind.

If you were a bad frisbee-tarian,  you are given to a dog.  Chomp, chomp.

[AquaMan]

I am a frisbee-tarian. I believe when you die you soul lands on the roof and stays there until a high wind.

You should give credit for that quote to George Carlin.

[custosnox]

I made spaghetti at home last night for dinner!  Yay, toast - oops, different song!

I hope you were in full pirate regalia, arggg

[heironymouspasparagus]

I hope you were in full pirate regalia, arggg

The regalia is at the dry cleaners....

I have moved beyond pirates and am now focused on "Dark Shadows".  Waiting impatiently for the chance to go see.
And Jonathn Frid died last week.

Only watched the tv show a few times and remember pretty much nothing of it now.  I do like Johnny Depp, though, so will revisit the topic.

Thread drift??  No, not at all...this is closely related to the vampires located in the state capital, sucking our blood all day, every day....

[patric]

I have moved beyond pirates and am now focused on "Dark Shadows".  Waiting impatiently for the chance to go see.
And Jonathn Frid died last week.

I would run home from school to watch that on channel 8.  Barnabas Collins was cool beyond the network's expectations.
Frid had just finished his cameo before he died.

Back on topic...
Creationism is wishful thinking.

[Townsend]

Bill Nye 'The Science Guy' Hits Evolution Deniers

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2012/08/bill-nye-the-science-guy-hits-evolution-deniers/

In a clip posted to online knowledge forum Big Think via YouTube, former children's show host Bill Nye spoke out against the denial of evolution, saying such views harm young people especially and hamper scientific progress.
Nye, who hosted the educational show "Bill Nye the Science Guy," which aired on PBS Kids from 1993 through 1998, made the statements in a clip posted online on Thursday, and has since been viewed over one million times.  In the clip, Nye praises the United States for its contribution to technological innovation, but says that the denial of evolution is unique to the country.
"People still move to the United States. And that's largely because of the intellectual capital we have, the general understanding of science," Nye said in the clip. "When you have a portion of the population that doesn't believe in that, it holds everybody back, really.

"Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science, in all of biology. It's like, it's very much analogous to trying to do geology without believing in tectonic plates. You're just not going to get the right answer. Your whole world is just going to be a mystery instead of an exciting place," he added.

Nye made a three-stop tour through New Hampshire earlier this summer to tout President Obama's education policies while making a push for science and engineering programs. He has endorsed Obama's reelection bid.
In the clip, Nye said that one's "world just becomes fantastically complicated when you don't believe in evolution."

"Here are these ancient dinosaur bones or fossils, here is radioactivity, here are distant stars that are just like our star but they're at a different point in their lifecycle. The idea of deep time, of this billions of years, explains so much of the world around us. If you try to ignore that, your world view just becomes crazy, just untenable, itself inconsistent," he said.
Nye then goes on to urge adults not to deny the teaching of evolution to young people.

"And I say to the grownups, if you want to deny evolution and live in your world, in your world that's completely inconsistent with everything we observe in the universe, that's fine, but don't make your kids do it because we need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. We need people that can — we need engineers that can build stuff, solve problems.

"It's just really a hard thing, it's really a hard thing. You know, in another couple of centuries that world view, I'm sure, will be, it just won't exist. There's no evidence for it."

[shadows]

The intellectuals of our city council invited one in the practice of Atheism to give the devotion at its meeting and unlike Sodom the fire didn't rain down on it.  But unlike to the days of Lot, no one has been told to abandon the city.