Dinosaur Shocker (YEC say dinosaur soft tissue couldn’t possibly survive millions of years)

Smithsonian Magazine ^ | May 1, 2006 | Helen Fields

[andysandmikesmom]

Its just so perfect...I guess that is why I noticed it...I can, on occasion, be perceptive...thanks...

[Conservative Texan Mom]

King Prout taught me how to post pics. Look, our at what our calf,Sugar, can do!

[AndrewC]

The calf is doing a Darwinist thing, nose-picking.

[AndrewC]

Dar·win·ism    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (därw-nzm)
n.

A theory of biological evolution developed by Charles Darwin and others, stating that all species of organisms arise and develop through the natural selection of small, inherited variations that increase the individual's ability to compete, survive, and reproduce. Also called Darwinian theory.

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Darwin·ist n.
Darwin·istic adj.

Source:The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

[Right Wing Professor]

In that case, if ‘my’ Sunday mornings are fair game than so are ‘your’ philosophical naturalistic classrooms - on the weekdays. Because how you shoehorn your hunter gatherer creation myth to adapt to it is everyone’s problem.

"I know you are, but what am I?" has never been a particularly intelligent response. But thanks for playing!

[JCEccles]

You know how Stalin dealt with religious believers and other "nuts and troublemakers" don't you? He had them confined to psychiatric hospitals or shot.

There isn't the slightest doubt in my mind that if the three branches of our government were controlled by people sympathetic to the ACLU, within ten years religious believers in this country would be rounded up like cattle and liquidated to "improve the species."

Ideas have consequences. Evil ideas have evil consequences. That's the lesson of the 20th Century, when social Darwinism and atheism controlled more than half the earth's population and genocide became all the rage.

[Coyoteman]

When you post a picture, include in the img src command,
after the url, one additional phrase, something like width="550"
and they won't run off the page.

Include this within the angled brackets, separated by a space.

[Right Wing Professor]

There isn't the slightest doubt in my mind that if the three branches of our government were controlled by people sympathetic to the ACLU, within ten years religious believers in this country would be rounded up like cattle and liquidated to "improve the species."

Run out of risperidol?

[Coyoteman]

Here is a member of our herd (now deceased) using the [width="550"] command inside of the angle brackets:

[SirLinksalot]

3. Option #2 is direct from conspiracy-theory-central, and isn't worth even the minor inconvenience imposed on the electrons that are holding that option on your screen. Nice try, but no cigar.

Addendum to option #3 : Option #3 could be the one that is questionable because it has been repeated ad nauseum and resorted to when the evidence is weak. Nice try too, but still no cigar.

[Heartlander]

The post applies - shoehorning philosophy is what it is… You have your problem with it and so do I… and I say this as a skeptic of purely natural (void of intellect) reasons for our human consciousness. Sociobiology is reading tea leaves and applying them to our past.

[JCEccles]

Dawkins: Religion equals 'child abuse'

Scientist compares Moses to Hitler, calls New Testament 'sado-masochistic doctrine

Controversial scientist and [arch-darwinist] Richard Dawkins, dubbed "Darwin's Rottweiler," calls religion a "virus" and faith-based education "child abuse" in a two-part series he wrote and appears in that begins airing on the UK's Channel 4, beginning tomorrow evening.

Entitled "Root of All Evil?," the series features the atheist Dawkins visiting Lourdes, France, Colorado Springs, Colo., the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem and a British religious school, using each of the venues to argue religion subverts reason.

In "The God Delusion," the first film in the series, Dawkins targets Catholicism at the pilgrimage site in Lourdes. "If you want to experience the medieval rituals of faith, the candle light, the incense, music, important-sounding dead languages, nobody does it better than the Catholics," he says.

Dawkins, using his visit to Colorado Springs' New Life Church, criticizes conservative U.S. evangelicals and warns his audience of the influence of "Christian fascism" and "an American Taliban."

The backdrop of the al-Aqsa mosque and an American-born Jew turned fundamentalist Muslim who tells Dawkins to prepare for the Islamic world empire – and who clashes with him after saying he hates atheists – rounds out the first program's case for the delusions of the faithful.

In part two, "The Virus of Faith," Dawkins attacks the teaching of religion to children, calling it child abuse.

"Innocent children are being saddled with demonstrable falsehoods," he says. "It's time to question the abuse of childhood innocence with superstitious ideas of hellfire and damnation. Isn't it weird the way we automatically label a tiny child with its parents' religion?"

"Sectarian religious schools," Dawkins asserts, have been "deeply damaging" to generations of children.

Dawkins, who makes no effort to disguise his atheism and contempt for religion, focuses on the Bible, too.

"The God of the Old Testament has got to be the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous, and proud of it, petty, vindictive, unjust, unforgiving, racist," he says. Dawkins then criticizes Abraham, compares Moses to Hitler and Saddam Hussein, and calls the New Testament "St Paul's nasty, sado-masochistic doctrine of atonement for original sin."

John Deighan, a spokesman for the Catholic Church, took issue with Dawkin's denunciation of religion, telling the Glasgow Sunday Herald, "Dawkins is well known for his vitriolic attacks on faith, and I think faith has withstood his attacks. He really is going beyond his abilities as a scientist when he starts to venture into the field of philosophy and theology. He is the guy with demonstrable problems."

Madeline Bunting, a columnist for the Guardian, who reviewed the series, wrote: "There's an aggrieved frustration that [atheist humanists] have been short-changed by history – we were supposed to be all atheist rationalists by now. Secularization was supposed to be an inextricable part of progress. Even more grating, what secularization there has been is accompanied by the growth of weird irrationalities from crystals to ley lines. As G.K. Chesterton pointed out, the problem when people don't believe in God is not that they believe nothing, it is that they believe anything."

[Conservative Texan Mom]

Sorry, I'm not a sympathizer.
Choices have consequences. Ideas may influence a person's choice, but, in and of themselves, ideas do not have consequences. Evil choices have evil consequences. Choices motivated from hate have evil consequences.
You can find atrocities committed throughout history that nay be based on an idea, but are rooted in hate. Hate is the motivating factor for the violent choice. Hate is also a by-product of fear(now I sound like Yoda.)If we were to elect hateful representatives, who hated Christians, then yes, we would have trouble. They might even use Darwinism to justify their actions, but it would still be based on hate, which may have evolved from fear. Some on these threads may very well fear the reverse. What is scary to them is which system, science, or religion is fueled more-so by emotion?

[Conservative Texan Mom]

Thank you! It is a wee bit big huh?

[andysandmikesmom]

Excellent post...when evil people, make evil choices, they will use anything they can latch onto, to justify those choices...they will twist philosophies, twists ideas, twist science, twist religion, twist whatever is available to fit their own scenario...better to carry out evil acts, while claiming that those acts are based on such-and-such an idea...we cannot take it, that those who are carrying out these evil acts, even really understand what the idea they are using, really does mean...

[Conservative Texan Mom]

How's this?

[andysandmikesmom]

Girl, now that you have learned to post the pics, you have gone wild with the animal pics...I love em...

[AndrewC]

Here is the source for his picture.

<IMG src="http://www.coyotepress.com/images/eyes.jpg" width=550 border=2>

Here's a teeny tiny version

[Conservative Texan Mom]

Look, little mutant horses. This is fun!

[RunningWolf]

Ideas have consequences. Evil ideas have evil consequences.

And I will add that Ideology's have consequences, Evil Ideology's have consequences. That is the lesson of the 20th Century, when social Darwinism and atheism controlled more than half the earth's population and genocide became all the rage.

Social Darwinism and atheism are still the rage. And now it has spread & morphed, but has not changed at its core.

To the Darwinist, essentially human life is for naught. Unborn human life is a meaningless toy to be played with, or as a commodity to be to be exploited by ((dultard to megalomaniac at the other end of the microscope))

The Darwinist wants to deny that we are conceived and born as Man. Rather he wants to step in and determine if and when man becomes man. If one listens closely to the Darwinist, his answer is 'never'. The Darwinist in the arrogance of his intellect, reveals his crushing ignorance.

Wolf