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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-26-05 10:51 PM
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Poll question: OK, you guys can teach Creationism if we can teach:
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stillcool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-26-05 10:54 PM
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1. Birth Control....... & ..always question n/t
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etherealtruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-26-05 10:55 PM
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2. How about : Sorry you can't teach creationism ever...
No way, no how...
(Unless it's part of a comparative religions course)
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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-26-05 11:00 PM
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6. You wouldn't make a deal with the devil
to teach Occultism? :evilgrin:
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charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-27-05 12:29 AM
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17. I would
If the Jeezo-Fundies get their hooks in the school curriculum across the nation, then I want the floodgates opened to all religions. Let them deal with their rugrats coming home and telling them it's turtles all the way down.
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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-27-05 01:34 AM
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19. LOL or the significance of the five points of the pentagram n/t
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-26-05 10:55 PM
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3. Reason
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jdj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-26-05 10:55 PM
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4. great poll!
in the manner of "let's make a deal".
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Scooter24 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-26-05 10:59 PM
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5. Being a Democrat - Principles For A Better America
:)
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MuseRider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-26-05 11:01 PM
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7. Science is for science.
You can teach it in your church or your home or in religious class in a religious school or in a comparative religion class. See? They have so many places where it is appropriate and where do they want it?
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Walt Starr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-26-05 11:01 PM
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8. They can't teach Creationism unless
they are willing to teach it in a mythology course of a literature course.

I have no problem with Creationism being taught in the proper context.
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wtmusic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-27-05 12:03 AM
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13. And of course they would say evolution is not being
taught in the "proper context", fact vs. theory, blah blah blah

already too many threads on that issue
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Walt Starr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-27-05 09:47 AM
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22. Evolution is a scientific theory and follows the rigor of that state
thus a science class is an appropriate place for that.

creationism does not even rise to the level of scientific hypothesis. It is not even an hypothetical situation and thus, is lowered to the category of mythology or literature.
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NAO Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-26-05 11:26 PM
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9. Matthew 25:31-46 (the Biblical Mandate for Welfare, SS, Medicaid)
Yep, those Bible Beaters do have ONE thing right: God IS going to "judge us as a nation".

Unfortunately, they missed the criteria by which He is going to separate the "sheep nations" from the "goat nations". Jesus tells us that God is going to decide who goes to Heaven and who is cast into Eternal Hell based on...domestic policy. Specifically on subsistence programs and social programs for those in need.

Religious Reichers, read it and weep (gnash teeth too, and all that other stuff):

Matthew 25:31-46
http://bible.gospelcom.net/passage/?search=Matthew+25:31-46

If we can teach THAT in the schools, they can teach Creationism.

P.S. I propose that we erect giant stone tablets with this Bible passage inscribed on them and place them in front of every Federal Assistance Office in the country.
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Arkana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-26-05 11:28 PM
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10. All of them
The best is the intro to atheism--they'd be spitting with rage.
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charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-26-05 11:34 PM
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11. Wrong venue
If they insist on their gunk in science classes, I'd only concede if they allow Science Preachers in their churches.
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Freedom_from_Chains Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-26-05 11:38 PM
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12. The swinging lifestyle
and the fallacy of monogamy.
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Dark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-27-05 12:14 AM
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14. The Golden Rule. Cause they ain't gonna hear it in their church.n/t
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ZombieNixon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-27-05 12:22 AM
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15. Scientology 101
Xenu is coming!

:crazy:
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GliderGuider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-27-05 12:23 AM
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16. The Golden Rule?
"He who has the gold makes the rules."

Sorry, I don't see this as a good trade off.
;-)
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Selatius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-27-05 12:31 AM
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18. Creationism, if it is to be taught, should be taught in philosophy class
not in the biology lab.
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Tux Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-27-05 02:42 AM
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20. Teach
Religious tolerance which would be mandatory for a kid to be an adult citizen. Otherwise, it's the military for life.
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Warren DeMontague Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-27-05 03:01 AM
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21. How about "Every OTHER Fairy Tale Known To Man"

...as fact, of course. Or "plausible alternative".

Wait, scratch that... as long as we're going to be peddling shit -presumably in science class- that has absolutely no evidentiary basis whatsoever to back it up, I say we also include every piece of fiction ever written, the weird dreams I personally had last week, and the ramblings of insane homeless schizophrenics.
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