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Time for another one of those posts that could go in any one of our three main fora...

Snatched directly from IIDB:

Diogenes the Cynic wrote:According to state legislators in Texas and Georgia

AUSTIN – The second most powerful member of the Texas House has circulated a Georgia lawmaker's call for a broad assault on teaching of evolution.

House Appropriations Committee Chairman Warren Chisum, R-Pampa, used House operations Tuesday to deliver a memo from Georgia state Rep. Ben Bridges.

The memo assails what it calls "the evolution monopoly in the schools."

Mr. Bridges' memo claims that teaching evolution amounts to indoctrinating students in an ancient Jewish sect's beliefs.

"Indisputable evidence – long hidden but now available to everyone – demonstrates conclusively that so-called 'secular evolution science' is the Big Bang, 15-billion-year, alternate 'creation scenario' of the Pharisee Religion," writes Mr. Bridges, a Republican from Cleveland, Ga. He has argued against teaching of evolution in Georgia schools for several years.

Well, we can't have our children being taught ancient Jewish Creation scenarios in public school science classes, can we? We better teach them Genesis instead. [bold added]

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I just can't say it any better than the bolded part.

Here's a link to the nutjobs' website. You'll laugh, but you'll probably want to quit browsing pretty quickly. All of that stupid ends up hurting after a while.

If the choice is between two ancient Jewish sects' beliefs, why not go with the one with scientific evidence?

DAR
Good stuff.

So Ken Ham came to perform at a church in Rogers last Saturday. I found out at the last minute but we probably wouldn't have wanted to go because it involved a required love gift of $25.
There was another performer. Bob Cornuke I think. A self-described Ark fanatic (and criticial thinker too).
I talked the music director from this church and he said he was all excited about a video put out by this Cornuke guy. Not only has he probably found the Ark, but also where Moses struck the rock and made the water come out! (and many other things too). I'll see if I can borrow the video. Should be hilarious.

D.

Darrel wrote:I talked the music director from this church and he said he was all excited about a video put out by this Cornuke guy. Not only has he probably found the Ark, but also where Moses struck the rock and made the water come out! (and many other things too). I'll see if I can borrow the video. Should be hilarious.
D.

DOUG
I bet it's some Ron Wyatt crap. He was a creationist who claimed to have found everything from the Ark of the Covenant to the rock Moses struck to a wheel of the Pharoah's chariot, etc. etc.

Even other creationists thought he was full of it.

DAR
I thought of that too, but I think this Cornuke guy is finding stuff too. Ron Wyatt is perhaps the inspiration. But remember, people have been "finding" locations for events in the Bible for centuries. The Bible in one hand and a spade in the other.

I wonder what Moses was actually doing when he knocked the caprock off a spring and turned the action into a "miracle"? Though truth to tell, presupposing there ever WAS an Egyptian-raised Jewish person named Moses who led the Jewish people out of Egypt (with or without the miraculous cohersion and murder noted in the bible), he may have actually been looking for water. My U.S. Army survival manual makes note of likely places to dig when trying to survive in the desert (among many other suggestions).

A required "love gift" is a contradiction in terms - but then, these are fundies.

DAR
They were actually selling tickets, "love gift" was my term. I was being a little flippant.

DAR
This just in, as worded colorfully by bartcop.com:

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Kansas rejects Crap for Science

Who believes we lived long enough to see that?

Excerpt:
The Kansas Board of Education on Tuesday threw out science standards deemed hostile to evolution, undoing the work of Christian conservatives in the ongoing battle over what to teach students about life.

The board in this Okie-like state voted 6-4 to replace the crappola they've been teaching with science and logic and to eliminate criticisms of evolutionary theory.

<Bart faints, cuts his head on the coffee table>

"I'm glad we've taken this step. If we are going to have a well-educated populace, this is important," said board member Sue Gamble.

Similar efforts to open the eyes of the ignorant have occurred in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Kentucky and Georgia.

But Kansas has been in the forefront of religious insanity since 1999, when the board voted to sharply reduce the emphasis of evolution in science instruction. A public backlash ultimately led to a reversal of that revision.

Darrel wrote:DAR
This just in, as worded colorfully by bartcop.com:

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Kansas rejects Crap for Science

What is it, National Forget What's Already Been Posted Day?

You know, I had a feeling...

Darrel wrote:You know, I had a feeling...

It happens. Plus, you aren't even the first person today...

Darrel wrote:You know, I had a feeling...

It happens. Plus, you aren't even the first person today...