More Nerd Rage
Posted by SuperAntx on Friday, November 06, 2009 02:46PM
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#9 Jeff8500:
Hiro the Dragon King wrote:
> I wonder how he'd feel if they let him hand out Bibles in school and then let an Arab hand out the Torah...
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> "... the Gospel, and a clear presentation of intelligent design will be placed into the hands of fifty thousand ..." and forty-nine thousand will be placed in trash cans because "these students aren't stupid" and will immediately notice the libel in the preface.
Personally, I would cut out the preface and keep the book. It's pretty nice looking!
Saturday, November 07, 2009 09:43AM
#8 Hiro the Dragon King:
I wonder how he'd feel if they let him hand out Bibles in school and then let an Arab hand out the Torah...
"... the Gospel, and a clear presentation of intelligent design will be placed into the hands of fifty thousand ..." and forty-nine thousand will be placed in trash cans because "these students aren't stupid" and will immediately notice the libel in the preface.
Saturday, November 07, 2009 01:00AM
#7 SuperAntx:
I believe Richard Dawkins put it best by saying, "debating about evolution with a creationist is like debating the round world theory with someone who believes the world is flat."
What's interesting to me is how religion has evolved in order to compete with science. Certain stories are now not to be taken literally while phrases like 'intelligent design' are subtly slipped in to make things seem more scientific. Georges Lemaître, the guy who proposed the Big Bang theory, was a Roman Catholic priest and thought it fit in pretty well with "God created everything." Now I guess they're saying it doesn't make any sense.
Maybe it's just a massive conspiracy to make people angry.
Friday, November 06, 2009 11:06PM
#6 Mickemoose:
I lol'd.
Friday, November 06, 2009 09:33PM
#5 Tsfreaks:
I just puked in my mouth a little bit. What happened to the punch line?
Friday, November 06, 2009 08:24PM
#4 Zaole:
separation of church and state, kershi.
they're acting outraged about a doctrine derived from the very first amendment of the united states constitution; playing it off as a limitation of religious freedom instead of secularity for the sake of allowing religious freedom
Friday, November 06, 2009 05:04PM
#3 KershiVelix:
It is somewhat ridiculous with everything being limited, but they're overreacting with this.
Friday, November 06, 2009 04:37PM
#2 Zaole:
luls 'christianity being censored'
for a while i was pretty sure the video was a joke
and then i was let down
he listed like 30 complex "debunks" which apparently all fit in... a 50 page preface? i'd like to see this
i like how he says "we need to show them both sides of the argument and let them make up their own minds" and "we need to show them the right way [belief]-- the CORRECT way"
it's also quite underhanded to put pro-christian beliefs and 'darwin is a chauvinistic nazi' in a preface to the origin of species and then hand it out to people without revealing what the preface actually is; does this mean i can hand out bibles with "A Brief History of Time" in front of the actual Bible's passages?
Friday, November 06, 2009 03:46PM
(Edited on Friday, November 06, 2009 03:54PM)
#1 Jeff8500:
loooooool
I especially liked the part when he said not having fossil records of transitional species is proof against evolution, because Darwin actually addressed and refuted this in the book (I'm unsure if it was in the first edition, but it was, without a doubt, in the second).
However, the best part was, without a doubt, the part involving Darwin's "racism and discrimination against women". Someone needs to give the Bible a 50 page introduction including its racism and discrimination against women.
Friday, November 06, 2009 03:40PM