I'm afraid to send my kids to schol. - Page 14

Tucker Case · 10-03-08, 06:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Cephus

Come on, don't confuse them with facts or anything, if they can possibly twist anything to match their primitive beliefs in the Bible, they do. It doesn't matter if it makes any sense.

I'm an atheist. Just to clear things up.

jallman · 10-03-08, 06:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Tucker Case

I'm an atheist. Just to clear things up.

Doesn't matter. If you don't jump in on his side with a torch and a pitchfork to lynch the Christians, you may as well be one of them. "You're either with us or against us". LOL

Tucker Case · 10-03-08, 08:06 PM

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Originally Posted by jallman

Doesn't matter. If you don't jump in on his side with a torch and a pitchfork to lynch the Christians, you may as well be one of them. "You're either with us or against us". LOL

That's the good thing about pile of dead, burned up Christians compared to a stack of bowling balls.

You can clean up a pile of dead Christians with the pitchfork.

jallman · 10-03-08, 09:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Tucker Case

That's the good thing about pile of dead, burned up Christians compared to a stack of bowling balls.

You can clean up a pile of dead Christians with the pitchfork.

I always heard that joke told with dead babies in place of Christians.

And besides, if you do it the old fashioned way, you don't have to clean up the dead Christians. You just have to make sure the lions are hungry enough when you turn them loose on the Christians...

Tucker Case · 10-04-08, 03:23 AM

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Originally Posted by jallman

I always heard that joke told with dead babies in place of Christians.

And besides, if you do it the old fashioned way, you don't have to clean up the dead Christians. You just have to make sure the lions are hungry enough when you turn them loose on the Christians...

But the lions might get gas and then I would get arrested by the "crazy liberals" for animal abuse.

bobnelsonfr · 10-12-08, 09:28 AM

rivrrat,

"Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude."

What allows you to equate socialsim with restraint and servitude?

What allows you to oppose democracy (a political order) with socialism (an economic order)?

Your tagline is nonsense.

bobnelsonfr · 10-12-08, 09:35 AM

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Originally Posted by The silenced majority

How do you guys sleep at night living under the Constitutional protections that were thought up and set forth by a group of people who overwhelmingly identified themselves as "Christians"?

Actually, many of the founding fathers, while accepting the idea of a Supreme Being, were Christians in word only.

bobnelsonfr · 10-12-08, 09:53 AM

Jallman signs with:
"I don't care if McCain and Palin have to dine on mentally handicapped babies with the devil himself to deliver us the White House. If that's what it takes, I'll personally put in the order for a case of barbecue sauce myself."

How about burning the houses of Congress and blaming it on the opposition? There's a precedent for that...

jallman · 10-12-08, 09:58 AM

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Originally Posted by bobnelsonfr

Jallman signs with:
"I don't care if McCain and Palin have to dine on mentally handicapped babies with the devil himself to deliver us the White House. If that's what it takes, I'll personally put in the order for a case of barbecue sauce myself."

How about burning the houses of Congress and blaming it on the opposition? There's a precedent for that...

Well now that would be treason and it's just plain ridiculous.

bobnelsonfr · 10-12-08, 10:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Tucker Case

... How would the teacher answer these questions honestly?

They would need to say "We are currently unsure of these mechanisms"

Then, when the kid says, "Well i think they are caused by God" Can the teacher honestly say that there is no eveidence to suggest this?

My answer works equally well in this scenario as it does in the the reverse. That's because theology should not be discussed in science class.

Your question is precise, "Can the teacher honestly say that there is no eveidence to suggest this?" and the answer is equally precise, "Yes, the teacher can say there is no evidence to suggest this."

The teacher could go on to say that it is also impossible to disprove... but that being unable to disprove a thesis in no way proves the antithesis.

Teachers shouldn't run away from these questions. "Geological, astronomical and biological evidence all agree that the world must be billions of years old. That evidence is overwhelming. If a person chooses to believe that their god created the world more recently, and in doing so created at the same time the 'evidence' of billion-year age, then of course there can be no argument. That is the difference between faith and science. Science requires proof; faith not only does not need proof, but can negate any proof that is contrary to it. This is a science class, so we shall continue to examine proof, and the theories that fit that proof. Faith-based constructs do not belong here."