Latest Challenges to the Teaching of Evolution

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That is a sufficient explanation for the publication of such a farrago of non sequiturs, self-serving assertions and the loose use of such terms as " seven calender days" and "voice of reason". We are already fully appraised of where such companies stand on these matters and providing us with another version can only be considered as spamming.

The article shows not the slightest sign of ideological balance or of any ideas how schools can be organised without political inputs of the first rank.

How on earth SBOE members can possibly not seek to infuse public education policy with their own world view is outside the frame of reference of any intelligent person and the members of the Board who have denied doing so, if it is true they have and Mr Kanelis has not made that up, they are thereby deemed unfit for office. It is not "virtually impossible" for board members to keep politics out of whatever decisions they make. It is actually impossible. A lot of mental furniture is on display with the use of "virtually" but I will refrain from exposing it because not only do I not have the time but also because it is most unseemly suggesting, as it does, that the readers are all stupid and ignorant as ci. recently asserted them to be in his dire campaign to win minds and influence people.

And it would constitute a total disqualification from office for any Board member, of whatever side, to say that they didn't put the children's interests first. So such a statement regarding anybody is meaningless and on the same level as telling us that they have two legs and a nose. Padding, and wasted words prove to warn that he not busy being born is busy dieeeeeeeeeeiiiiing!

Do you never wonder why that is ed?

No. I know already.

And what are your conclusions then? What do you think is the reason for your plaintive liberal wail? I am reasonably interested in your explanation. How do we know that you know already otherwise?

Are you seriously saying ed that you have never paused to wonder why the lonely liberal voice in Texas is crying in the wilderness?

Differing regions even within a single nation have cultural predjudices that distinguish them from other regions. A great part of it has to do with the history of the people, as they settled the land (wrenched it away from the Natives and the Mexicans, actually, in the case in point) and did something with it. A great part of it has to do with the culture they brought with them. There are other factors that one might dispute. There is an intimidation factor at work here, as well. The instant a moderate or liberal voice gets hinted at, the fundamentalists become like an up in arms swarm of Africanized honey bees. I have seen many a moderate back down and shut up, when these forces are at work. I myself have backed down. I recall a time when whiskers were frowned upon, here. I came in from the east coast, wearing a great beard. So many fundamentalists stared hard at me, as if wanting a chance to take me down, I gave in and shaved (Now, the same ones that condemned my whiskers are wearing the same look). These people harbor a notion that there is no social contract, that we all are on our own. Even when banding together to force social behaviors on others, they cling to that belief.

Why not move back east then? I would have been gone in a day if my beard risked me being "taken down". I wouldn't have shaved.

I was born in Texas. It's as good a place to live as any, so long as you don't get into arguments with fundamentalists.

How is the moral evolution going in your part of the world? Is the church going to be able to hang in there? Are they going to expel the money changers?

Here is a quick update of how it is going in the USA!

As long as a governor like PErry is around, there will always be plenty of right wing Dominionists who want the positions on the ed board.

Interpretation of science isnt open to a vote of the mob of Fundamentalists. Im interested in a possibility that would present itself IF and ONLY IF the Fundamentalist Christians gain a majority. What do they do next?? They can posture all they want but the Constitution clearly states the free expression and the establishment strictures and freedoms.
The Supreme Court and the 3rd FEd district court have each defined "SCientific Creationism" and "Intelligent Design" and have shut down several statelaws that required an "equal time" to Creationism. SO where do they go??

The only ******* around they can do (In my mind) is to get some bogus textbook that teaches evolution AND menations Creationism or ID. I suppose that a separate court case regarding textbooks purchased by state authority must comply with the Constitution also.

Itll be interesting esppecially since PErry has imploded so he will probably be a TExan for a while longer

I was hoping he would get the nomination and resign as governor.

You want someone like that to lead us all?

I think ed thinks that Mr Obama will piss all over Mr Perry and he's hoping Mr Perry has a chance of that so that he's gone from Texas. I can't imagine ed wanting a President Perry. It looks like Romney to me.

The UK House of Commons will debate e-petitions if they get at least 100,000 signatures. The e-petition below has currently reached 15,000 signatures:

Not a chance of any changes arising out of that. The vote won't be "whipped".

I was wondering whether or not our panel of evolution proponents have any intellectual thoughts on the expression "missionary position". It does imply that there was something special or even unique in the Christian penetration of the non-Christian world.

It is my assumption that the national electorate will not vote for this person. Meaning, Perry would become a non official, in my scenario.

No. , spendius, not "special" or "unique" at all. Victorian missionaries went out to convert the "heathen" and claimed, in their "wisdom", that that was the only sexual position approved by god, and anything else was sinful. The natives, not surprisingly, thought they were loonies. It's pejorative on the missionaries.

In which case, and thanks for jumping into the snare, evolutionists should eschew the procedure and proceed in the manner evolution so obviously has selected and which I have been informed by those in the only position to know is much preferred by our females for a variety of reasons.

Perhaps the professor of philosophy at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, will settle the matter for us.

This is rally comical! spendi needs to spend time in Khajuraho for about three years to study all the temples there.