Exhibit on Darwin creates Bush bash at museum gala

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[Stark_GOP]

"Ah, the hasty generalization fallacy."
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Nope, just the facts of the article and what can be deduced from it.

Your only recourse is to provide facts that counter the original article.

[RightWingAtheist]

However, they are making the Republican Party out to be nothing more than a bunch of uneducated theocratic bent morons. I am afraid they are succeeding. :-(

For evidence of this, here's what someone posted at another board:

Now. I believe you can make a serious case for the conservative nature of ANY film that deals with science running amok -- the "there are things Man is better off not knowing" philosophy. It's an inherently ascientific, pro-ignorance position which is usually brushed aside by the sheer cheesiness of the film in question and the fact that (at least in films of the 50s and 60s) I believe 99.9% of filmmakers _did not intend_ active promotion of such a worldview -- Americans were frightened to death of atomic weapons, but did not generally decry the advancement of science for the good of humanity. Of course, that worldview has changed -- science is now looked upon as too expensive, too dangerous, too immoral to be allowed free or partially-free room to advance. As I said, this new backward attitude is rampant in genre literature -- the worst perpetrator is the hugely popular Michael Crichton, who just recently stepped up his anti-science position from underlying them (Jurassic Park, The Lost World, Swarm) to outright propagandistic harange (State of Fear). These books will all be translated into film at some point, and all will carry the anti-science (and hence, ultra conservative) political message.

And this wasn't at a science or political discussion board; it was on a film discussion board. This conservative=anti-science meme is spreading, and becoming ever more malignant as we speak. And the people helping to propagate it aren't liberals but so-called "conservatives" who define the movement solely on the basis of Biblical literalism, and wind up being held up as representative of a good 40-50% of the general population.

[Dimensio]

Nope, just the facts of the article and what can be deduced from it.

You "deduced" that because a bunch of Hollywood liberals speak positively of the theory of evolution that everyone who accepts the theory of evolution is a Hollywood liberal. That's a logical fallacy. It is no more valid than me finding a group of Islamic terrorists who believe in six-day creation and concluding that anyone who believes in six-day creation is an Islamic terrorist.

Your only recourse is to provide facts that counter the original article.

The existence of conservatives who accept evolution counters the original article. Well, it counters your warped interpretation of the article. The article itself is just about a bunch of self-congratulating leftists who think that their fame and their political leanings give them omniscience. The article itself leads to no conclusions about the theory of evolution itself, and any claim otherwise only demonstrates that you have an agenda and are looking to trash a valid scientific theory by grasping at any straws that you can find.

[jwalsh07]

This is the crowd evolutionists are getting into bed with.

This is hillarious, I thought the article was written by scrappleface. Anybody "conservative" defending this crap should be sent to the doctor forthwith.

[rtbwood]

One day, Jon Stewart, Tom Brokaw, Neil Young, you will all stand in awe, regretting your ill-advised comments spoken last night, and you will bow your knee and recite together....."Jesus Christ is LORD".

[Virginia-American]

1. How could evolution and natural selection produce homosexuals who cannot propagate the species?

I know at least three gay men with children.

Also, if some particular combination of genes makes men more susceptible to homosexuality, and if having unattached men around promotes the survival of a group (which carries the genes which combined), then homosexuality wouldn't contradict the facts of biology. (I emphasized the "if"s because I don't have a clue whether or not that's the case.)

[Stark_GOP]

I know there are many conservatives which support evolution.
Please give me the name of a liberal which supports ID or creationism?

[Just mythoughts]

There is another thread posted recently about nobody, I mean nobody filling this exhibits collection plate.

Guess they didn't realize evolution is a government funded program, and they will need to lobby a Congressperson.