Latest Challenges to the Teaching of Evolution

LW, I just returned (today) from Vietnam, and they have a temple there that includes "all" religions. It's like, they have all their bases covered. LOL

I'll post a picture of that temple tomorrow.

Can you let us know what happens, farmerman? That would be great!

I have to see whether I cant dump a social engagement that evening. (My wife says I gotta go)

You had better go then effemm. I gather American wives are wearing the pants.

Where does she say you have "gotta go" to? The gig or the social engagement.

I wouldn't bother ci. We've seen enough pics of temples. And the only thing of special significance about this one is that you happened to come across it. Fossils are like that. Somebody happened to come across them and could work them up for the purpose of wowing us all.

You are really mbittered. How you got this way would be a fascinating study for some clinical psych. I, mostly, just laugh at your pitiful cries for attention

At least I don't go all the way to Ethiopia on taxpayer's pocket riflings burning up scarce resources and polluting the atmosphere to scratch around in the muck in order to prove that certain traditional dogmas are no longer operative. And I don't go pottering about in the NW Atlantic Ocean and building out of date boats and photographing temples in Vietnam.

I think my attention seeking is quite socially acceptable by the side of all that nonsense.

I assume your posts are not to be classed as attention seeking you silly old moocow.

Im a fun loving silly old moocow. Im hardly ever bitter, and with the Phillies winning game one of the pennant series Im even happier.

"Ill be working on my rock book today". said the moocow to the lush.

I hope it's a best seller.

You're gonna go sit in with a crowd of evangelical snake handlers? Non-venomous snakes don't bother me a bit, but being in a crowd of kooks with live rattlesnakes would worry me.

I don't wonder ros is worried. If he talked to them like he talks to us I'm sure they would give him the bum's rush. Head first.

Even kooks and rattlesnakes object to cold snot dripping onto them.

What's the difference to an anti-IDer, intellectually, between going to a restaurant and going to a brothel?

Both exist to satisfy natural drives of the flesh, both charge fees and both employ people who exercise their musclature and spend time for the purpose of providing satisfaction of those carnalities the fee-payers require.

And both have a slap-it-on-the-counter style cheaper end and additional refinements for the jaded appetites up through an extensive range of expert and esoteric ritual performances.

"EAting Out" has two very different meanings in the circumstances. I think my punchline sounded better than yours, (which always sounds like your a stand-up philosopher)

Our niece is currently an exchange student in the USA, suburban Indianapolis.

Her guest parents wanted a "Christian" girl - unfortunately, she didn't believe what I told her, namely that Christian in the USA has a different meaning to our use of the word.

After 10 weeks there, she's got two adult "prayer partners" who teach her separately in how to learn "that humans don't have apes ancestors". Besides that, all her US-friends pray for her to convert - since she's such a girl and shouldn't have to go to hell.

Her guest-parents were "shocked" [with a couple of emoticons on facebook) when they heard that our niece had chosen "evolution" in next school term. (But no need to panic: the biology/science teacher is Evangelical - though not Baptist.)

She seems to have decided to give in "officially" because all the pressure makes her stay (and it's still nearly eight months) quite stressful.

Id concur. Sometimes its better to learn from the experience and develop a worldview based on experience rather than say so. She sounds like a level heded kid.

Millers pretty much toothless, Ill spin him around with his fake C14 data. As far as Behe, one of my buds is a bioethecist and molecular biologist at the U of Delaware and he takes no prisoners. Now, if only I can convince my wife that e shouldnt go to a party where H1N1 is extant.

The cost of spending time with a "christian" family in the US may become hell for some.

What "tax dollars" is PSXXX worried about -- a few bucks he pulled out of his ass? That's about all the tax dollars that are being spent on the excavation and they don't need his few paltry, smelly Eurodollars.

It was a philosophical point I raised. Obviously philosophy is not your cup of tea. You bottled it and obvious jests can't hide that.

A three hour discussion on the subject around the dining table when the ladies have retired between a few men of the world would no doubt raise some interesting points.

The fame osmosis trick again effemm. There's a chap in the pub who can't stop himself from using it.

Bring him on here and I'll see if I can get him to put me on Ignore.