(November 28, 2015 at 7:32 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(November 28, 2015 at 7:05 pm)ignoramus Wrote: We all know by now that creatards don't have or acknowledge a fail-state option.
Eg, if human DNA was unique and not shared with other living things, you guessed it, they'll say:
See, god made us unique because we don't share our special DNA with other life! Checkmate!
He he, you gotta love 'em! Poor things...
I could love them if they were not bastardizing science and spreading that virus of stupidity. I could live with a theist who accepts all science and can leave their religion at the door. But even given that, like Stenger, and I agree with him, the debate becomes about treating religion "separate but equal". I don't agree with that, but that is a debate I can live with. I cannot and will not accept a continued attack on facts. Evolution is fact, to not defend it would be like saying it is ok to teach 1+1=Pixies.
I wish these nuts didn't have an affect on public education but they do. I wish they could leave their religion in Sunday school, but they don't.
The right-wing idjits are the reason that Donald Trump just might actually get the Republican nomination. That's still way too much political power for my liking. And yes, they can have an effect upon all sorts of legislation here in the good ol' US of A. I'm sitting, right now, in a state that voted in 2005 that Intelligent Design be included in all science classes throughout the state. It was repealed in 2007, but the fact that the creatards got a whole state to teach ID for two years is more than a little frightening.
I, like Brian, don't know what I can do to fight against this culture of ignorance. But there has to be something. Some way to speak out. I know some moderate xtians who agree with me, and that's heartening (folks like Kingpin and CL). And probably, we will see fundamentalist evangelicalism diminish. But at this point, they're a powerful and very angry group.
"The family that prays together...is brainwashing their children."- Albert Einstein
