Here's a great example of what I was talking about earlier. Logic - and believing nonsense.
A school district in Atlanta had ordered that stickers be placed in text books, calling evolution "a theory, not a fact....".
We've had years of scientific study that says the earth is not flat. We know the sun does not revolve around the earth. Similarly, we know that evolution occurs as a natural part of life.
Yet, these people don't believe that. What's worse, is they want to instill that nonsense in children. It's interesting in that scientific fact conflicts with their religious beliefs, so they choose to accept the unproveable, and discard the factual. Thinking like that means they have no unbiased logic skills..
This is what the emergence of the Christian fundamentalist movement within the Republican party has brought us. It emboldens people with really wacky ideas to try and impose their bullshit on the rest of us.
They have no grip on reality. Can we please shun them and ask them to go back to sipping their Kool-aid? A Federal judge did just that today. The rest of us should do the same.
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Gah indeed. Evolution is not a "theory", it's a scientifically proven fact. There are no other theories.
The smarter religious types are moving towards an "intelligent" design concept. In other words, God created evolution. That may be entirely true. I mean, religion used to insist (it's in the bible) that the world is some 10,000 years old. We know thats bull. So what they do is modify the religion to fit yet another un-provable paradigm.
But then we have the hillbillies in the south who live in a world of delusional thought. I don't really care what they think.. until they start pushing that on the rest of us. Can you imagine if your kid went to a school where the text books called evolution a "theory"? That was the point of my post.
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