tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post7765243398787941775..comments2024-03-27T14:50:47.345-04:00Comments on <center>Sandwalk</center>: Is Intelligent Design Creationism winning the debate in the scientific community?Larry Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05756598746605455848noreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-70108715272258615292015-01-31T01:42:27.374-05:002015-01-31T01:42:27.374-05:00"but I think it is interesting how the design...<i>"but I think it is interesting how the design hypotheses is spreading in public discussion."</i> <br /><br />It isn't, this is your imagination at work. Mikkel Rumraket Rasmussenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07670550711237457368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-17490389730869579772015-01-31T01:26:23.463-05:002015-01-31T01:26:23.463-05:00Mats, could you give an example of "There hav...Mats, could you give an example of "There have been politicians who claimed to believe in ID but when they are confronted publically at a larger scale they retract very quickly, and claim they are misqouted." <br />I also live in Sweden but missed that in the news. I would not claim that ID has wide support in Sweden but I think it is interesting how the design hypotheses is spreading in public discussion.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03503746944125068931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-9206960327740743422015-01-27T10:41:13.076-05:002015-01-27T10:41:13.076-05:00The mousetrap is also the very same... The vast ma...The mousetrap is also the very same... The vast majority of the "exponents" are chemists who don't research about Evolutionary Biology. They only reproduce Discovery Institute's stuff... Of course, there is not even a single paper about ID.Ronald Mourahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12464645325683623573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-7474195762863864112015-01-26T10:27:54.158-05:002015-01-26T10:27:54.158-05:00Ted:
Or an editor. God just might be tempted to b...Ted:<br /><br />Or an editor. God just might be tempted to blue-pencil Byers' name from the book of life for sins committed against prose.Nullifidianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15207390447020990907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-15888730795738317542015-01-25T20:32:04.754-05:002015-01-25T20:32:04.754-05:00Re Heliocentric vs. Geocentric models
Every once ...Re Heliocentric vs. Geocentric models<br /><br />Every once in a while, in the backwater I am obliged to inhabit, I on occasion, encounter a Creationist who challenges me with something along the lines of “Prove to me that Evolution is correct – I dare you!”<br /><br /><br />Depending on on many beers I just consumed I generally respond with something along the lines of: “Prove to me the Earth goes around the sun and not vice versa, and then I will oblige.”<br /><br /><br />Their dumfounded answer typically goes along the lines of: “Well – the Earth going around the sun is established fact – not like evolution.”<br /><br /><br />My answer: “Not at all! It all boils down to what one grants as acceptable criteria for a scientific model. The two propositions are equivalent. No one has lived long enough to make observations over deep time and nobody has left our solar system to observe what is happening from outside. Deduction is required in both cases.<br /><br /><br />For example, one can construct a model that the earth is indeed the centre of our solar system:<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJuvYcDfrAY<br /><br /><br />Of course, that model would not be considered the most "parsimonious" model! So it would appear that parsimony ALSO seems to be an important criterion in choosing one scientific model over another, not just their utility as intellectual devices to generate predictions and correct answers to precisely defined questions. (My intro to phylogenetics actually...)<br /><br /><br />So let's not forget that the heliocentric model constituted an immense challenge to Christian Orthodoxy and the inerrancy of the Bible (remember the so-called Galileo affair). Biblical reactionaries came to terms with heliocentricism just as they will eventually come to terms with evolution.<br /><br /><br />That said – the moon really does NOT orbit the earth depending on one’s frame of reference. The moon and the Earth together constitute a binary-planet system that together orbit the sun. OK, let's leave Hill Spheres out of this, for the time being, there still is no retrograde motion. Therefore, my point still remains - everything depends on one's frame of reference! (As Galileo, ironically, was the first to understand!)<br /><br />http://blog.world-mysteries.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Moon_sun_wrong-300x300.jpg<br />http://blog.world-mysteries.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/moon_sun_correct.jpg<br /><br /><br />Of course, if one were to evoke Einstein’s theory of relativity and change one’s frame of reference to the entire galaxy; the paths of the moon, the earth and the sun would resemble interlocking corkscrew spirals along some non-Euclidian curve in time-space. <br /><br />to recap - <br />Q: Does the Earth revolve around the Sun or vice versa?<br />A: Yes!<br /><br />But we digress.<br /><br />;-)Tom Muellerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09829281784362177069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-15533023809772259122015-01-25T20:20:39.832-05:002015-01-25T20:20:39.832-05:00ah yes Copernicus... a great but forgotten German...ah yes Copernicus... a great but forgotten German hero of science!<br /><br />;-)Tom Muellerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09829281784362177069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-29742142767646040142015-01-25T20:18:55.447-05:002015-01-25T20:18:55.447-05:00SRM & Piotr - Interesting points - check out
...SRM & Piotr - Interesting points - check out<br /><br />http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/02/25/most-democrats-dont-know-it-takes-a-year-for-the-earth-to-go-around-the-sun/<br /><br />I remember this number popping up like a whack-a-mole over the years<br />for example:<br /><br />http://www.gallup.com/poll/3742/new-poll-gauges-americans-general-knowledge-levels.aspx<br /><br />This is my personal favorite<br /><br />https://watchingthedeniers.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/army-of-darkness-33-of-americans-think-the-sun-goes-around-the-earth/Tom Muellerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09829281784362177069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-19222385438430561922015-01-25T20:08:02.325-05:002015-01-25T20:08:02.325-05:00Or perhaps they are educated well enough to classi...Or perhaps they are educated well enough to classify birds as dinosaurs. ;)Piotr Gąsiorowskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06339278493073512102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-68172586198491920732015-01-25T19:41:42.829-05:002015-01-25T19:41:42.829-05:00I wonder what fraction of that 42% comes from gene...I wonder what fraction of that 42% comes from general scientific ignorance rather than religious dictatesSRMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07299706694667706149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-27557421975514480962015-01-25T19:21:43.206-05:002015-01-25T19:21:43.206-05:00You my dear Newbie are a lying sack of shit.
A la...You my dear Newbie are a lying sack of shit.<br /><br /><i>A large number of Jehovah's Witnesses, including many children, have died due to their loyalty to the Watchtower Society. The May 22, 1994, issue of Awake! featured the stories of five children who died after refusing blood transfusions. These stories, similar in tone and rhetoric to the child-martyr stories of the Victorian era, depict children who inspired respect and acceptance for the Society as they happily sacrificed their lives to uphold the Watchtower's regulations. Unfortunately, however, the reality of the situation is often far grimmer. In a particularly horrifying example of how seriously Jehovah's Witnesses take the Society's prohibition, Paul Blizard, a former elder, tells of his experience when his daughter needed a transfusion. After Blizard accepted a court order requiring that his daughter receive a transfusion, an elder said, "I hope your daughter gets hepatitus (sic) from that blood."[6] Blizard, his wife, and even their daughter were then shunned by their congregation for not smuggling the girl out from the hospital to avoid the transfusion.[7]</i>*<br /><br />You routinely slaughter your children for the sake of your disgusting cult.<br /><br />* http://www.watchman.org/articles/jehovahs-witnesses/new-watchtower-blood-transfusion-policy/steve oberskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14067724166134333068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-1038307097775061492015-01-25T18:50:26.938-05:002015-01-25T18:50:26.938-05:00some data:
at least USA ranks ahead of Turkey:
...some data:<br /><br />at least USA ranks ahead of Turkey: <br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_of_support_for_evolution#mediaviewer/File:Views_on_Evolution.svg<br /><br />It is not clear to me that Canada does better:<br /><br /><i>59% of Canadians believe that humans evolved from less advanced life forms, but 42% agree that humans and dinosaurs co-existed on earth</i><br /><br />I wonder what the results would be if we excluded Alberta?Tom Muellerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09829281784362177069noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-47001119289983740432015-01-25T17:42:06.359-05:002015-01-25T17:42:06.359-05:00Steve,
My son is autistic. He was fine up until ...Steve,<br /><br />My son is autistic. He was fine up until about 18 months when he received a dose of many vaccines. While I have no proof, and the science behind it has been changed recently, as a parent I have seen my son turning from a cheerful, happy little boy to a zombie right in front of my eyes. <br /><b> I will emphasize this again for the sake of the majority who didn't have this experience and probably never will--there is no conclusive scientific evidence to support the notion that vaccines cause autism. </b>. <br />However, going to meetings with parents with kids with autism spectrum disorder, the agreement is almost unanimous--something has changed in their children’s behavior after receiving the vaccination, which in North America is mostly around 18 months of age.<br /><br />At 3.5 years of age my son has become totally mute. <br />I have gone everywhere and read all the publications available. <br /><br />At 3.5 years of age my son was put on gluten free and casein free diet. We also removed genetically modified corn and other GMOs products as much as possible. We found an MD who also believed in prevention, natural treatments as well as homeopathy. <br /><br /> My son was put on very strong antibiotics and vitamin 12 injections. Within about 6 weeks from the beginning of the <b>full treatment</b>we have noticed a gradual change in his behavior and some sounds came out of his mouth. <br />Today, my son is almost 12 years old. His speech is almost at the level of his peers though he is still in a special class. He is catching up but not in every area of schooling. <br />Thanks to going from door to door, he overcame some his social issues associated with autism. While not ideal, his interactions with peers are getting better. He recently joined a science course starting with robotics all the way through the theory of relativity. The instructor of the course actually called me and said that my son disagreed with some aspects of the theory of relativity. <br /><br />We love our children and we would never allow them to die. That is why we have become world’s experts in bloodless medicine. We have special committees of experts who educate doctors on bloodless and alternative medical treatments. That is why the network of bloodless treatments has expanded beyond Jehovah’s Witnesses. Newbiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12112647387206975751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-16227539830295638392015-01-25T15:00:35.181-05:002015-01-25T15:00:35.181-05:00Hey Newbie,
If they didn’t think it was appropria...Hey Newbie,<br /><br />If <i>they didn’t think it was appropriate to talk about child’s problem</i> why do they drag the poor tot around with them ?<br /><br />If they can't afford to provide the child with proper care why are they out trying to save the souls of others when they can't even properly deal with their own problems ?<br /><br />How does dragging the child around from door to door <i>make[s] the child feel a valuable and important member of the congregation and the society</i> ?<br /><br />Do you think that this is a form of child abuse ?<br /><br />Do you think that the parents time would be better spent not indoctrinating their child in a system of tribal ethics and morality and perhaps teaching it how to become a productive member of a secular democracy ?<br /><br />Just asking, as you seem to have an answer for most everything.<br /><br />What I find most weird and twisted about the JW cult is the willingness of JW parents to sacrifice the lives of their children in a pathetic attempt to vindicate their insane delusions by refusing to allow them live saving blood transfusions. This is truly disgusting behaviour and I say shame on you for providing moral and financial support to these moral cretins.<br />steve oberskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14067724166134333068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-39148600912465330202015-01-25T11:52:04.916-05:002015-01-25T11:52:04.916-05:00Steve,
"On the subject of weird, twisted cul...Steve,<br /><br /><i>"On the subject of weird, twisted cults, perhaps you can answer this question"</i><br /><br />Do you find Jehovah's Witnesses weird or twisted cult because there are mentally handicapped children or people among them? <br /><br /><i>"Why, whenever JWs knock on my door*, they invariably have an obviously mentally handicapped child in tow ? Seriously, this has happened several time in the last few years."</i><br /><br />It is possible that the same person--the mother or the father of the child--visited you over more than once and brought the child along. Or perhaps there are more handicapped children in the congregation who works the territory you live and their parents bring them along.<br /><br /><i>"I've asked them but they seem unwilling or incapable of providing a answer. Do you think this is fair to the child ?”</i><br /><br />Perhaps they didn’t think it was appropriate to talk about child’s problem in front of him/her. Or perhaps they didn’t think it made sense it explain it to you why they do that. Maybe the mother/father can’t leave it at home alone. Or maybe going from door to door with the parents makes the child feel a valuable and important member of the congregation and the society? Maybe it helps the child to overcome anxieties or shyness? If the parents did the opposite, would they help the child if it felt left out because of the retardation? Would it be fair?<br /><br /><i>”And why, if they offer people the chance to learn the benefits of living by God’s standards, do they always want money for that copy of the Watchtower that they always try to push into my hands ?”</i><br /><br />Jehovah’s Witnesses ask for donations toward their worldwide evangelizing work. They accept any donation, even very small. It is not the amount of donation that it is important to them, but the persons appreciation for the work and publications that are <b>free</b>. If one doesn’t wish to donate, he/she can still receive publications <b>free.</b><br /><br /><i>”For some reason they no longer call on me.”</i><br /><br />Perhaps they can’t find you home. Or perhaps they have determined you are not interested in learning about the benefits of living by God’s standards. I’m pretty sure they will not leave you unattended for a long time. It is usually 1 year before they come back to see if your interests have changed or if another person has moved in. We are pretty well organized. <br />Newbiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12112647387206975751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-45266886611924118182015-01-25T10:51:44.760-05:002015-01-25T10:51:44.760-05:00Hey Newbie,
On the subject of weird, twisted cult...Hey Newbie,<br /><br />On the subject of weird, twisted cults, perhaps you can answer this question.<br /><br />Why, whenever JWs knock on my door*, they invariably have an obviously mentally handicapped child in tow ?<br /><br />Seriously, this has happened several time in the last few years.<br /><br />I've asked them but they seem unwilling or incapable of providing a answer.<br /><br />Do you think this is fair to the child ?<br /><br />And why, if <i>they offer people the chance to learn the benefits of living by God’s standards</i>, do they always want money for that copy of the Watchtower that they always try to push into my hands ?<br /><br /><br />* For some reason they no longer call on me.<br />steve oberskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14067724166134333068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-81993044312726225102015-01-25T10:20:37.463-05:002015-01-25T10:20:37.463-05:00*
Does Science Contradict the Genesis Account?
&...* <br />Does Science Contradict the Genesis Account?<br /><br />"MANY people claim that science disproves the Bible’s account of creation. But the real contradiction is between science and, not the Bible, but the opinions of so-called Christian Fundamentalists. Some of these groups falsely assert that according to the Bible, all physical creation was produced in six 24-hour days some 10,000 years ago.<br /><br /><br />The Bible, however, does not support such a conclusion. If it did, then many scientific discoveries over the past hundred years would indeed discredit the Bible. A careful study of the Bible text reveals no conflict with established scientific facts. For that reason, Jehovah’s Witnesses disagree with “Christian” Fundamentalists and many creationists. The following shows what the Bible really teaches.<br /><br /><br />When Was “the Beginning”?<br /><br /><br />The Genesis account opens with the simple, powerful statement: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” (Genesis 1:1) Bible scholars agree that this verse describes an action separate from the creative days recounted from verse 3 onward. The implication is profound. According to the Bible’s opening statement, the universe, including our planet Earth, was in existence for an indefinite time before the creative days began.<br /><br /><br />Geologists estimate that the earth is approximately 4 billion years old, and astronomers calculate that the universe may be as much as 15 billion years old. Do these findings—or their potential future refinements—contradict Genesis 1:1? No. The Bible does not specify the actual age of “the heavens and the earth.” Science does not disprove the Biblical text.<br /><br /><br />How Long Were the Creative Days?<br /><br /><br />What about the length of the creative days? Were they literally 24 hours long? Some claim that because Moses—the writer of Genesis—later referred to the day that followed the six creative days as a model for the weekly Sabbath, each of the creative days must be literally 24 hours long. (Exodus 20:11) Does the wording of Genesis support this conclusion?<br /><br /><br />No, it does not. The fact is that the Hebrew word translated “day” can mean various lengths of time, not just a 24-hour period. For example, when summarizing God’s creative work, Moses refers to all six creative days as one day. (Genesis 2:4) In addition, on the first creative day, “God began calling the light Day, but the darkness he called Night.” (Genesis 1:5) Here, only a portion of a 24-hour period is defined by the term “day.” Certainly, there is no basis in Scripture for arbitrarily stating that each creative day was 24 hours long.<br /><br /><br />How long, then, were the creative days? The wording of Genesis chapters 1 and 2 indicates that considerable lengths of time were involved."<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/102006326" rel="nofollow">Does Science Contradict the Genesis Account?</a><br /><br />Newbiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12112647387206975751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-51002941728234950122015-01-25T10:08:05.239-05:002015-01-25T10:08:05.239-05:00ARE JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES CREATIONISTS?
"Jeh...ARE JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES CREATIONISTS?<br /><br /><br /> "Jehovah’s Witnesses believe the creation account as recorded in the Bible book of Genesis. However, Jehovah’s Witnesses are not what you might think of as creationists. Why not? First, many creationists believe that the universe and the earth and all life on it were created in six 24-hour days some 10,000 years ago. This, however, is not what the Bible teaches.* Also, creationists have embraced many doctrines that lack support in the Bible. Jehovah’s Witnesses base their religious teachings solely on God’s Word.<br /><br /><br /> Furthermore, in some lands the term “creationist” is synonymous with Fundamentalist groups that actively engage in politics. These groups attempt to pressure politicians, judges, and educators into adopting laws and teachings that conform to the creationists’ religious code.<br /><br /><br /> Jehovah’s Witnesses are politically neutral. They respect the right of governments to make and enforce laws. (Romans 13:1-7) However, they take seriously Jesus’ statement that they are “no part of the world.” (John 17:14-16) In their public ministry, they offer people the chance to learn the benefits of living by God’s standards. But they do not violate their Christian neutrality by supporting the efforts of Fundamentalist groups that try to establish civil laws that would force others to adopt Bible standards.—John 18:36."<br /><br /><a href="http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/102006321?q=ARE+JEHOVAH%E2%80%99S+WITNESSES+CREATIONISTS&p=par" rel="nofollow">ARE JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES CREATIONISTS</a>Newbiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12112647387206975751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-63681474130907858802015-01-25T01:30:50.864-05:002015-01-25T01:30:50.864-05:00Jehovah Wtinesses might have been banned, but the ...Jehovah Wtinesses might have been banned, but the Orthodox church is well and alive and increasing in strength in Russia. And they are a mix of YEC and OEC, one that is actually quite interesting to look at. <br /><br />I don't have direct observations on the situation in Russia but what happens there has a lot of influence on the priests and theologians in Bulgaria (who quote and invite the Russian ones all the time). For many of them the theory of evolution seems to just not exist - they just never mention it. You can hear some priest occasionally condemn it, but most of the time all you get is complete silence on the issue. The most prominent theologian in the country talks all the time about creation, Adam and Eve, original sin, etc. and the way he talks about it is as if the biblical story is literally true. But he has never mentioned evolution. Not once. <br /><br />So at some point I invoked Ockham's razor and the principle that where mere ignorance suffices as an explanation there is no need to propose a vast conspiracy and started to suspect that this silence is indeed due to ignorance. It might be hard at first to wrap one's mind around that - after all that stuff was thought in schools during communist times - but after some more reflection is not that hard to see how it could happen. First, it was taught but was taught through an ideological prism, so people developed suspicion towards it. Second, it might have been taught, but it was only once and superficially (even if aggressively), and at an age where the conflict might not have been apparent in the case of these people, and after that they were never exposed to the subject, because of the early specialization of college majors in the Eastern European university systems, where you enroll in a major from the very beginning and if it's in the humanities, you never take any science. Third, evolution and questions of origins are absent from the media even in a popular version (there are no equivalents to Sagan, Dawkins, Gould, etc.). <br /><br />As a result in a very weird and twisted way creationism wins by default without there being any battle. One should not underestimate the importance of the culture war for familiarizing both sides with the positions of the other; I will guess that quite a few people have ended up atheists as a consequence of the fact that their religious leaders have felt it was necessary to constantly condemn evolution, which lead some of their flock to read more about it and eventually move away from faith. Obviously not enough to significantly diminish the importance of the church, but it's better than nothing, and you don't get even that in the absence of a culture war. <br /><br />That's also why in terms of positions on the subject we're talking about a weird mess of YEC, OEC, and TE, because nobody has had to sit down, think about it and develop a coherent and consistent position. Which is actually not a good thing.Georgi Marinovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12226357993389417752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-25322327442151974852015-01-24T23:13:59.978-05:002015-01-24T23:13:59.978-05:00Ted: http://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos...Ted: http://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/t31.0-8/c0.0.851.315/p851x315/1523033_10152201749647145_1173109761_o.jpg<br /><br />Ted buddy, you cannot give constructive criticism to creationists. On any subject, but especially their grammar-- we tried, it has no effect. They're going to Heaven and you're not. That's the only thing that matters to them. Therefore, they are incapable of shame.Diogeneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15551943619872944637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-16112289951890828432015-01-24T22:20:15.207-05:002015-01-24T22:20:15.207-05:00Are demographers welcomed on this blog? If so here...Are demographers welcomed on this blog? If so here is my two cents worth. Otherwise, just ignore/delete this post. <br /><br />In fact it is Sweden that is next to dead. With a typical European below replacement birth rate, and an increasing Muslim population, Sweden will be all but gone soon.You better pray to God that he changes His mind and lets you live, because otherwise Sweden won't be around in another 100 years. It's a real pity too, because no country in the world makes women as beautiful as Sweden does. It will be a shame to loose them. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18300448624871622986noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-22647064533061539232015-01-24T15:34:58.500-05:002015-01-24T15:34:58.500-05:00This utterly irrelevant consideration, I cannot po...This utterly irrelevant consideration, I cannot possibly imagine,what your thinking off, atTedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17631163277582196326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-8838873858890937972015-01-24T15:06:30.190-05:002015-01-24T15:06:30.190-05:00Creationism is "dying" or becoming irrel...Creationism is "dying" or becoming irrelevant mainly because of YEC. The only OEC creationists in Europe and some parts of Easter Europe, except Russia where they are officially banned, are Jehovah's Witnesses. They however don't believe that creationism or ID should be thought in schoolsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-74049425855853235342015-01-24T13:35:16.686-05:002015-01-24T13:35:16.686-05:00The reply button doesn't work for me, either.
...The reply button doesn't work for me, either.<br /><br />Ted: People who are good at grammar go to Hell. Saved people go to Heaven.<br /><br />Diogeneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15551943619872944637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-60112340365366065442015-01-24T12:51:30.596-05:002015-01-24T12:51:30.596-05:00Mr Byers.
I hope for your sake that God is not an...Mr Byers.<br /><br />I hope for your sake that God is not an English teacher....Tedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17631163277582196326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-85816589832482567602015-01-24T11:25:08.478-05:002015-01-24T11:25:08.478-05:00(The reply button doesn't work on this compute...(The reply button doesn't work on this computer: this is a reply to Diogenes)<br /><br />Creationism has been sqtrong in Brazil for a long time: http://www.scidev.net/global/news/few-in-brazil-accept-scientific-view-of-human-evol.html<br /><br />I can't find the link right now, but I'm pretty sure that Rio de Janeiro had a creationist member of its state government some time around 2005. I can probably find the details on my office computer if you're interested, but not before Monday.Athel Cornish-Bowdenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05993242236208061356noreply@blogger.com