I can't friggin believe intelligent design is even an issue down there

[HEyHEY]

That is all.

[no name no slogan]

1. Why do you hate America?

[Dudley_DUright]

2. Those IDiots at the so called "Discovery Institute"

make me hope there is intelligent life somewhere out in space, cause there bugger all ain't much of it down here (paraphrasing Monty Python).

[caty]

3. Why do you hate

ignorance and narrow mindedness. Without those, where would our government be?:sarcasm:

[CottonBear]

4. We can hardly believe it either but it is.

It was never an issue when I was growing up in the 1960s and 1970s. It was never discussed in my church but maybe that was because we were upper middle class Presbyterians and my parents were medical professionals (surgeon and physical therapist). Ironically, I grew up just an hour south of Dayton, TN, the site of the Monkey Trial.

[ashling]

10. Maybe you just weren't paying attention

(No offense) I think it is just that the religious right had not really conjealed by then. I certainly remember it as an undercurrent.

[CottonBear]

12. I went to a girl's prep school and a Presbyterian church.

My parents were wealthy Republicans. I just don't remember creationism ever being mentioned in school or in church. I suppose that I got both a good religous and academic education. I was not brought up to believe that religion and science were in conflict. Lucky me.

[Susang]

5. Down where?

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[HEyHEY]

8. snort

[Susang]

13. I'm just sayin'

;-)

[bridgit]

6. "intelligent design" is a ruse designed for rubes...

an advertising ploy & campaign. right-wing fundamentalist republican nut-balls cannot in any way sell their true agenda & they know it, so in keeping with the ways in which they 'word chop' & re-orient concepts & notions both and voila! 'intelligent design' = just another phrase signifying: pat robertson the insane ~ and THAT is all

[WCGreen]

7. It's all Adam and Steve's fault......

[GoddessOfGuinness]

9. It's the fundies' idea of compromise...

If they wanted to be obstinately radical, they'd keep "intelligent" out of the "design".

[barb162]

11. I can't believe it either. Maybe if this discussion about ID

was happening in 1935 or somewhere along there, it wouldn't seem so bizarre

[sasquatch]

14. Hey it ain't my fault that Lincoln wanted to keep the union together

To whomever doesn't like what I posted can piss off.

[rug]

15. I thought this post was from God

until I saw the Canadian flag.

[Canadian Socialist]

17. Same thing. n/t

[Initech]

16. I once started reading a book on "intelligent" design...

About three pages in, my reaction was :argh:

[NMMNG]

18. "Intelligent Design"

Dunderhead speak for "We don't yet understand the exact nature of the origins of the universe so we'll attribute it to a magic fairy because there is no way something like this could have come about any other way". :eyes:



Yeah, and because I don't understand all of the intricacies of geophysics I can just ignore the law of gravity....