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Texas Evolution Lobby Making Power Grabs to Promote Their Censorship Agenda
Discovery Institute ^ | May 28, 2009 | Casey Luskin

Posted on 05/29/2009 11:20:59 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts

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1 posted on 05/29/2009 11:20:59 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: metmom; DaveLoneRanger; editor-surveyor; betty boop; Alamo-Girl; MrB; GourmetDan; Fichori; ...

Ping!


2 posted on 05/29/2009 11:21:28 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts

Thanks for the ping!


3 posted on 05/29/2009 11:22:18 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Alamo-Girl

How is Texas going to purge these people after the “divorce”?


4 posted on 05/29/2009 11:23:31 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, Bowman later)
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To: MrB

LOLOL!


5 posted on 05/29/2009 11:24:28 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: All

Also, see what the Temple of Darwin is doing to ICR in Texas:

Censorship in Texas: Fighting Academic and Religious Discrimination

http://www.icr.org/article/censorship-texas-fighting-academic/


6 posted on 05/29/2009 11:25:30 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: Alamo-Girl

Seriously, removing the gov’t benes and welfare isn’t going to affect some of them.

I guess we’ll just have to remove any means of power from them - that’ll do it.


7 posted on 05/29/2009 11:26:00 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, Bowman later)
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To: GodGunsGuts
The Texas evolution-lobby

LOL!

Let me guess, there's also a Texas Gravity Lobby?

8 posted on 05/29/2009 11:26:33 AM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: qam1

There’s a global warming lobby, a fetus isn’t human lobby, and a homosexuality is genetic lobby.

All are theories.


9 posted on 05/29/2009 11:36:05 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Justice is blind. Sonia Sotomayor is not even qualified to sit on an IMPARTIAL jury.)
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To: qam1

> Let me guess, there’s also a Texas Gravity Lobby?

Unlike the effects of gravity, which can be empirically observed, evolution relies on drawings and conjectures about what may have, could have, might have, probably have, happened.

Everybody has watched an object fall to the ground.

Nobody has seen a shrew turn into a bat.


10 posted on 05/29/2009 11:37:10 AM PDT by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: MrB
Actually I would imagine the majority of Texans find the attempt by any group to run roughshod over their collective will to be rather amusing ... at first.

To try to convince by debate is one thing, but to get pushy with Texans is well .... not very smart.

Remember Goliad, the Alamo and San Jacinto!

11 posted on 05/29/2009 11:37:48 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: qam1

My home state is doing so well in these bad times. It would be a shame if this was clouded by pseudoscientists trying to teach kids biblical literalism in science class.


12 posted on 05/29/2009 11:38:37 AM PDT by GunRunner
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==Let me guess, there’s also a Texas Gravity Lobby?

Yes. It was originally started by Sir Isaac Newton way back in 18th century England. He was of course a biblical creationist.


13 posted on 05/29/2009 11:38:46 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts

And yet it was only Newton’s scientific theories that posited natural causes for natural phenomena that accomplished anything.

As a theologian Newton was a heretic.

As an alchemist Newton was a quack.

It was only where he found MATERIAL causes to explain MATERIAL phenomena that he made any progress in science.


14 posted on 05/29/2009 11:41:27 AM PDT by allmendream ("Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be redistributed?")
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To: Westbrook
Where as the theory of creationism depends on ?
15 posted on 05/29/2009 11:47:09 AM PDT by sticker
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To: GodGunsGuts

Pretty obvious which side of this thing has stuff to hide, isn’t it?


16 posted on 05/29/2009 11:49:44 AM PDT by varmintman
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> Where as the theory of creationism depends on ?

Who said anything about creationism?

We were talking about evolutionism.

In any event, they are both theories employed to explain the same evidence based on different world views.

However, given the endless frauds in evolutionism, e.g. Haekel, Nebraska Man, Piltdown Man, Java Man, Ntional Geographic’s “Dino Bird”, etc, and the fact that no explanation exists for organs that would be “vestigial” until wholly functioning, e.g. the eye, I would say that Intelligent Design is the more intelligent explanation.

However, if you want to believe...

* Everything came from nowhere out of nothing for no apparent reason.

* Life is just a curious side effect of an unknowing, uncaring cosmos.

* A man is a dog is a bear is a pig.

* When you die you are just so much compost.

* Ergo, the best you can hope for is a life of self-gratification and a painless extinction.

... I certainly won’t try to stop you.

Just don’t expect me to gladly furnish moneys by the threat of lethal force to propagate your silly, even dangerous, notions.


17 posted on 05/29/2009 12:00:22 PM PDT by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: GodGunsGuts
the Texas evolution-lobby

Those guys are pikers! The Texas Round Earth lobby actually got our textbooks changed!
18 posted on 05/29/2009 12:01:21 PM PDT by BJClinton (One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: qam1
Let me guess, there's also a Texas Gravity Lobby?

Yeah, they're really holding our kids down!
19 posted on 05/29/2009 12:02:22 PM PDT by BJClinton (One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Alamo-Girl
Remember Goliad, the Alamo and San Jacinto!

We went 1 - 2.
20 posted on 05/29/2009 12:03:40 PM PDT by BJClinton (One Big Ass Mistake America)
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