how can you NOT lov her?

via PZ Myers at pharyngula

see i TOLD you!

proof!!!


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those right wingers sure are odd

sexual repression and lies. only underneath there is NO sexual repression only dirtiness* like the rest of us are

For all the wrong reasons
by PZ Myers

Kristin Maguire, chair of the South Carolina State Board of Education, has resigned from her position for all the wrong reasons. She has been a shill for the religious right, and has opposed the teaching of evolution in the public schools; she has also promoted that worthless 'abstinence only' sex education. She should have been fired for basic incompetence. But no, that is not sufficient reason to kick someone out of office in America. What gets American politicians in trouble?

You guessed it: sex...............


*it's not ME who thinks sex and erotica and nudity is dirty. just wanted to make that clear

this really IS interesting

really

Hands or Paws or Anything They Got

Masturbation in the animal kingdom.

By Daniel Engber
Isn't it wonderful when science and religion come together? My Slate colleague William Saletan points out that a recent paper has laid the groundwork for a pro-life defense of onanism. According to obstetrician David Greening, a rigorous program of daily masturbation can actually improve sperm quality in men with fertility problems. (Samples collected at the end of the program showed less DNA damage and higher sperm motility than samples from control subjects.) Since masturbation can help you have babies, Saletan argues, it must also serve the "procreative and unitive purposes" described in the Catechism. Let's take this one step further. If we've redeemed this dangerous supplement for man, what about the fowl of the air and the beasts of the field? Surely what works for God will work for Nature, too: Since masturbation improves fertility, then it ought to be a prime target for natural selection. That is to say, any animal that evolves the ability or inclination for self-pleasure will end up with healthier sperm, and more offspring, than its competitors. Indeed, if you take the theory of evolution seriously—as the Catholic Church has since February—then you might expect that all animals masturbate, or at least all animals with a reproductive system sufficiently like our own..............

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there is NO second

theory. the earth IS more than 6,000 years old. humans did NOT ride on the backs of dinosaurs. the universe WAS NOT LITERALLY CREATED IN SIX DAYS.

giving even one little iota to the cranks and kooks and religious zealots who spew these inaccuracies is not only stupid it's dangerous

on the surface, one would think the texas decision was a victory for evolution. it's not really. there are far too many roadblocks

yet ANOTHER reason to be embarrassed to be human

State education board approves science standards
New standards remove specific references to age of the universe.
By Laura Heinauer
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF

The State Board of Education on Friday passed science curriculum standards that members described as a compromise between those who are critical of teaching evolutionary theories without scrutiny and those who feared attacks on evolution would lead to the teaching of creationism in Texas schools.

After the 13-2 vote, it was social conservatives on the board who were doing most of the celebrating while scientists expressed concerns.

The new standards remove current requirements that students be taught the "strengths and weaknesses" of scientific theories. Instead, teachers will be required to have students scrutinize "all sides" of the theories.

The new standards will determine what will be included in science textbooks in Texas. Because of its size, Texas could influence what publishers print in books used in other states. Friday's adoption comes after many months of debate over drafts for the standards, which were last revised in 1998.

On the one hand, the standards encourage questions about certain evolutionary concepts, satisfying those who are critical of the theory. But those supportive of evolution were partly mollified because calls to teach "insufficiencies" or "weaknesses" of the theory were rejected..................

speaking of 'science'

wtf WERE THEY THINKING? obviously they WERE NOT THINKING at all


Zoo pulls Creation Museum promotion
By Dan Horn • dhorn@enquirer.com
The Cincinnati Zoo and the Creation Museum launched a joint promotional deal last week to draw attention to their holiday attractions. It worked, but not the way zoo and museum officials had hoped.

The zoo pulled out of the deal Monday after receiving dozens of angry calls and e-mails about the partnership, which offered reduced prices to anyone who bought tickets to the zoo’s Festival of Lights and the museum’s Christmas celebration, Bethlehem’s Blessing.

Most of the protests echoed the same theme: the Creation Museum promotes a religious point of view that conflicts with the zoo’s scientific mission.

Some complained that the zoo, which receives public support through a tax levy, should not become involved with a private museum dedicated to the teachings of the Bible’s Book of Genesis. Others said a scientific institution shouldn’t link itself to a place that argues man once lived side by side with dinosaurs........

wha???????????

what'd he say?
Bush: Bible 'probably not' literally true
Agence France-Presse
US President George W. Bush said in an interview Monday that the Bible is "probably not" literally true and that a belief that God created the world is compatible with the theory of evolution.

"I think you can have both," Bush, who leaves office January 20, told ABC television, adding "You're getting me way out of my lane here. I'm just a simple president."

But "evolution is an interesting subject. I happen to believe that evolution doesn't fully explain the mystery of life," said the president, an outspoken Christian who often invokes God in his speeches.............

i can't imagine

learning anything OTHER than evolution. it's shocking to me to think this country is SO backwards (in some places and/or states) that some have to be mandated to teach the truth of natural selection. there is infinitely MORE proof we did not ride on the backs of dinosaurs, the earth and it's inhabitants evolved over millions of years than us only being around a few thousand years.

i'd also like to give a shout out to teachers like david campbell. he taught the truth even before it was mandated. he taught the truth even though parents complained. he taught the truth even though he couldn't always teach the WHOLE truth. even now he has to watch his p's and q's on how and what he says.

if you want your kids NOT to have a proper education, that's fine by me. haul them out of public school and either home school them OR send them to private school. then you can teach them all the fables you wish with MY PERSONAL BLESSING

A Teacher on the Front Line as Faith and Science Clash

By AMY HARMON

ORANGE PARK, Fla. — David Campbell switched on the overhead projector and wrote “Evolution” in the rectangle of light on the screen.

He scanned the faces of the sophomores in his Biology I class. Many of them, he knew from years of teaching high school in this Jacksonville suburb, had been raised to take the biblical creation story as fact. His gaze rested for a moment on Bryce Haas, a football player who attended the 6 a.m. prayer meetings of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes in the school gymnasium.

“If I do this wrong,” Mr. Campbell remembers thinking on that humid spring morning, “I’ll lose him.”

In February, the Florida Department of Education modified its standards to explicitly require, for the first time, the state’s public schools to teach evolution, calling it “the organizing principle of life science.” Spurred in part by legal rulings against school districts seeking to favor religious versions of natural history, over a dozen other states have also given more emphasis in recent years to what has long been the scientific consensus: that all of the diverse life forms on Earth descended from a common ancestor, through a process of mutation and natural selection, over billions of years.

But in a nation where evangelical Protestantism and other religious traditions stress a literal reading of the biblical description of God’s individually creating each species, students often arrive at school fearing that evolution, and perhaps science itself, is hostile to their faith.

Some come armed with “Ten questions to ask your biology teacher about evolution,” a document circulated on the Internet that highlights supposed weaknesses in evolutionary theory. Others scrawl their opposition on homework assignments. Many just tune out...........

oh for goddess' sake!

how thick ARE 'these people'? you can believe in all the mumbo jumbo you want IN YOUR HOMES AND YOUR PLACES OF WORSHIP. keep that SHITE OUT OF THE SCHOOLS THOUGH. evolution happened (and of course IS happening). there is solid evidence. it's NOT made up (like the shite YOU are touting. there is NOT ONE OUNCE OF PROOF for that).
Louisiana gov. signs controversial education bill
Reuters
NEW ORLEANS - Louisiana Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal has signed into law a bill that critics say could allow for the teaching of "creationism" alongside evolution in public schools.

Jindal, a conservative Christian who has been touted by pundits as a potential vice presidential running mate for Republican presidential candidate John McCain, signed the legislation earlier this week.

The law will allow schools if they choose to use "supplemental materials" when discussing evolution but does not specify what the materials would be.

It states that authorities "shall allow ... open and objective discussion of scientific theories being studied including, but not limited to, evolution, the origins of life, global warming and human cloning."......

it's really not that white supremacists don't believe in evolution

it's that they don't know WHAT evolution is. none the less or all the more, wonder what they would think of THIS (if they had a brain that is)
DNA Study Supports African Origin of Man
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A new genetic analysis of people from around the world adds further confirmation to the African origin of humans. The study of genetic details from 938 individuals from 51 populations provides evidence of how people are related and different, researchers led by Richard M. Myers of Stanford University report in Friday's issue of the journal Science.
The team looked at variations in 650,000 sections of each of the DNA samples, providing a view of the similarities and differences between people in greater detail than had been available previously.
Scientists have long believed that modern humans first developed in Africa and spread from there to populate the rest of the world, a theory strongly supported by the new analysis, the researchers said........

it really is hard to believe it's 2007 sometimes

yesterday i posted a 'go to the back of the bus story'. today it's the world is flat story (again)
this stuff scares me the most. george bush will eventually go away. his court will eventually go away. we'll have good people in the white house and bad people in the white house. we'll have good politicians and bad ones. we'll have good leaders and bad leaders.
but
we'll always have people who want to discredit science. SCIENCE. people and dinosaurs did NOT roam the earth together. the world is NOT a few thousand years old. my body is MINE and i make the choices about it (just thought i'd add that in here.)

science schmience. science? we don't need no stinkin' science!!!

Texas Science Curriculum Director Canned for Mentioning Evolution
By Brandon Keim
A Texas science education official forced to resign in October wasn't -- as her bosses inisted -- fairly punished for insubordination. Her real crime: daring to tell people about a lecture critical of intelligent design.
The Austin-American Statesman reported last week that science curriculum director Chris Comer's ouster followed her circulation of an email announcing an upcoming speech by Barbara Forrest, co-author of Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design and an expert witness in Kitzmiller v. Dover. That lawsuit was brought in 2005 by Dover, Pennsylvania parents upset with a school board's decision to teach intelligent design -- the belief that some phenomena can only be explained as divinely manufactured -- as a scientific theory comparable to evolution.
A federal judge sided with the parents and legally established intelligent design as religion, not science. But Texas education officials seem to disagree. .............

and more

Official Leaves Post as Texas Prepares to Debate Science Education Standards

...............Ms. Comer said state education officials seemed uneasy lately over the required evolution curriculum. It had always been part of her job to answer letter-writers inquiring about evolution instruction, she said, and she always replied that the State Board of Education supported the teaching of evolution in Texas schools.
But several months ago, in response to an inquiry letter, Ms. Comer said she was instructed to strike her usual statement about the board’s support for teaching evolution and to quote instead the exact language of the high school biology standards as formulated for the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills test.
“The student knows the theory of biological evolution,” the standards read, and is expected to “identify evidence of change in species using fossils, DNA sequences, anatomical similarities, physiological similarities and embryology,” as well as to “illustrate the results of natural selection in speciation, diversity, phylogeny, adaptation, behavior and extinction.”
The standards, adopted in 1998, are due for a 10-year review and possible revision after the 15-member elected State Board of Education meets in February, with particular ramifications for the multibillion-dollar textbook industry. The chairman of the panel, Dr. Don McLeroy, a dentist and Sunday School teacher at Grace Bible Church in College Station, has lectured favorably in the past about intelligent design. ..............

.....Ms. Comer said that barely an hour after forwarding the e-mail message about Dr. Forrest’s talk, she was called in and informed that Lizzette Reynolds, deputy commissioner for statewide policy and programs, had seen a copy and complained, calling it “an offense that calls for termination.” Ms. Comer said she had no idea how Ms. Reynolds, a former federal education official who served as an adviser to George W. Bush when he was governor of Texas, had seen the message so quickly, and remembered thinking, “What is this, the thought police or what?”...................

top picture: gary markstein bottom picture taken from: mattdowling.blogspot.com/2006_08_01_archive.html looks like rex babin is the artist though

proof positive there is NO such thing as evolution

please click on this link and watch a very short video of chuck missler and a jar of peanut butter PROVING beyond DOUBT evolution does NOT exist