Originally posted by inimalist
lolwhat is a circumstance where the acceptance of evolution is unreasonable?
Palin is actually suprisingly sane with regard to evoution (meaning she doesn't believe, but wants it taught in school... I remember something about "teach the controversy", so I'll keep looking).
Re: What Do Evolution And God Have In Common?
Originally posted by Dataflux
You can't reason with people who will refuse to accept either under any circumstances what so ever. They will always find some problem with it to justify their belief.
what do they have in common?...they both have threads in the religion forum
From the LA Times:
Palin told him that "dinosaurs and humans walked the Earth at the same time," Munger said. When he asked her about prehistoric fossils and tracks dating back millions of years, Palin said "she had seen pictures of human footprints inside the tracks," recalled Munger, who teaches music at the University of Alaska in Anchorage and has regularly criticized Palin in recent years on his liberal political blog, called Progressive Alaska.The idea of a "young Earth" -- that God created the Earth about 6,000 years ago, and dinosaurs and humans coexisted early on -- is a popular strain of creationism.
Though in her race for governor she called for faith-based "intelligent design" to be taught along with evolution in Alaska's schools, Gov. Palin has not sought to require it, state educators say.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-palinreligion28-2008sep28,0,3643718.story
(scroll down, the site formatting doesn't wrk on my browser, just in case anyone has the same problem as me)
not surprising in the least
She will advocate creationism to be taught in public schools, or keep quiet in fear of looking like a religious freak.
Her intentions are clear to me, she wants creationism taught in schools. She's one of those people who'd change the line in 'Imagine' to "and one religion too".
Although I don't need to hope, I really do hope she loses.
Originally posted by Devil KingYeah. It's pathetic.
Notice how she never actually does?
Originally posted by Devil King
Notice how she never actually does?
that is true of most politicians though...
Originally posted by lord xyz
She will advocate creationism to be taught in public schools, or keep quiet in fear of looking like a religious freak.Her intentions are clear to me, she wants creationism taught in schools. She's one of those people who'd change the line in 'Imagine' to "and one religion too".
Although I don't need to hope, I really do hope she loses.
after Dover it is essentially guaranteed that ID will be shut down in the courts. Palin is essentially no threat in this regard, unless she gets to name Supreme Cout Justices, although even then its iffy.
Originally posted by inimalistJohn Kerry answered questions.
that is true of most politicians though...after Dover it is essentially guaranteed that ID will be shut down in the courts. Palin is essentially no threat in this regard, unless she gets to name Supreme Cout Justices, although even then its iffy.
She will still advocate it, I'm sure.
And with the dirty things previous VPs have done, I'm willing to bet, as VP, she'll do dirty things as well to promote her fundie beliefs.
Originally posted by lord xyz
John Kerry answered questions.
I saw the debates...
Originally posted by lord xyz
She will still advocate it, I'm sure.And with the dirty things previous VPs have done, I'm willing to bet, as VP, she'll do dirty things as well to promote her fundie beliefs.
1) she didn't advocate it while govenor
2) McCain isn't as much of a wet noodle as Bush, and has supported evolution in science class, I can't imagine her over-powering mcain
3) she wont win in the courts. any law she tries to make about ID will lose, unless she gets to stack the supreme court, which means she is president, in which case there are LOTS more problems than ID in science class.
Originally posted by xmarksthespot
The only things anyone remembers about "John Kerry" are swiftboats, windsurfing and looking "kinda French."
Don't forget that his fer'ner wife is rich. It's a talking point that seems to have no substance now that Cindy "Evil-Lyn" McCain is in the picture. McCain is prolife while his wife is peddling a product that is responsible for more abortions than all the bottles of ketchup in history.