Christians fight for their right to be intolerant of others

[Drewbacca]

Exactly. If you teach the Christian myths, why not the Muslum ones? Or Buddhist, Hindu, or even Satan's?

It did. The creationism - evolution - intermediary are very general topics. All of them are theories. I'm not specifically labelling Jesus, or Muhammud for creationist theories. In this class we had groups to cover the more notable (popular) creationism theories.

And then we did the same things with the points of evolution (modern evolutionary synthesis, natural selection, genetic drift, common descent, etc.).

The point is to have a well rounded curriculum. Creationism doesn't belong in a science lab because it's not a science (obviously) and I never said it did (find me where I said it did and you win). The point is that there's room to teach this stuff together without muddling anything -- a true unpartisan classroom that leaves the end conclusion on the students.

Oh and I don't believe these "Christian" folk should be given the right to harrass the homosexuals on campus. It's not their place.

[Dolemite]

Did they teach you the laws and beliefs of our dark lord Satan as well?

[YellerDog]

He mentioned creationism already.

[g0zen]

Creationism is the belief that we were created by a grand being, evolution is the creationist belief (and remember that although great strides have been made in the theory of evolution it's still just a theory that has only proven small changes in smaller animals, and still has yet to conclusively prove that man evolved from apes, although likely).

This right here proves you haven't read a goddamn thing diffx or myself has written because your head is lodged securely up your own ass. Also, your knowledge of evolution is about as scant as the average religious wacko. It omits that the entire field of genetics is founded on evolutionary theory and that many hospitals have witnessed evolution on the micro level with diseases that adapt to make themselves resistant to anti-biotitics over generations.

[mollipen]

But at the same time its okay for the left to prohibit the Ten Commandments from Courthouses. Yet those same commandments are what we base our laws after.

Everything in the Ten Commandments is common sense, and would have been instituted into our society whether or not that guy from Planet of the Apes brought them down on stone tablets or not. That's like saying that we have babies because God told us to.

[g0zen]

It did. The creationism - evolution - intermediary are very general topics. All of them are theories.

Again you misuse the word. Are you simply incapable of understanding what we've been saying here? Evolution as a theory is a FAR different thing than the BELIEF of creationism. One is supported with EVIDENCE and one is NOT. They are not the same, they are not equal.

[frostwolf ex]

That is unfortunately how it is defined in vernacular, but in science, theory = fact.

ok heres a slight quibble with this, because "fact" is, in the vernacular a final term, once somethings a fact, it simply is and cannot be changed. In "good" science nothing is a fact in that sense, a theory can be a idea that has been supported by repeted testing, and is considered a sound basis for future theories, but all of them can be changed by the future discovery of contrary evidence.

Thats just a thing that comes up that bugs me sometimes, evolution is supported by a significant amount of data, and has a sound basis for application, but to call it or any scientific theory a "fact" would stifle future study on the topic, because it implies that everything is known and nothing needs futher clarification. just a quibble from an old nat.sciences grad.

beyond that, these fellows are odd, im going to assume they are protestant and thus not technically in my religion

[Wilykat]

I really hope some of these extremists get over trying to portray Christians as a persecuted group in America. It's one of the most staggeringly dishonest things I can think of. From one of their recent conventions:

"You guys have become the Jews of the 21st century"

at the "war on Christians". There's plenty more comedy in that link.

[Josh]

Here is proof of human evolution.

Suck it.

[Thief Silver]

So if you're allowed to harass someone based on their sexual orientation, I reserve the right to insult this woman in any factual way such as the fact she is a bitch, a bigot, and an inconsiderate boob until my hearts content. I guess if I get that it's a fair case.