Posted on 08/15/2006 10:11:10 PM PDT by jla
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Phyllis Schlafly
Phyllis Schlafly has been a national leader of the conservative movement since the publication of her best-selling 1964 book, A Choice Not An Echo. She has been a leader of the pro-family movement since 1972, when she started her national volunteer organization now called Eagle Forum. In a ten-year battle, Mrs. Schlafly led the pro-family movement to victory over the principal legislative goal of the radical feminists, called the Equal Rights Amendment. An articulate and successful opponent of the radical feminist movement, she appears in debate on college campuses more frequently than any other conservative. She was named one of the 100 most important women of the 20th century by the Ladies' Home Journal. Mrs. Schlafly's monthly newsletter called The Phyllis Schlafly Report is now in its 38th year. Her syndicated column appears in 100 newspapers, her radio commentaries are heard daily on 460 stations, and her radio talk show on education called "Phyllis Schlafly Live" is heard weekly on 45 stations. Both can be heard on the internet. Mrs. Schlafly is the author or editor of 20 books on subjects as varied as family and feminism (The Power of the Positive Woman), nuclear strategy (Strike From Space and Kissinger on the Couch), education (Child Abuse in the Classroom), child care (Who Will Rock the Cradle?), and a phonics book (Turbo Reader). Her most recent book, Feminist Fantasies, is a collection of essays on feminism in the media, workplace, home, and the military. Mrs. Schlafly is a lawyer and served as a member of the Commission on the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution, 1985-1991, appointed by President Reagan. She has testified before more than 50 Congressional and State Legislative committees on constitutional, national defense, and family issues. Mrs. Schlafly is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Washington University, received her J.D. from Washington University Law School, and received her Master's in Political Science from Harvard University. Phyllis Schlafly is America's best-known advocate of the dignity and honor that we as a society owe to the role of fulltime homemaker. The mother of six children, she was the 1992 Illinois Mother of the Year. |
You're just a font of wisdom 'n wit, aren't you.
Jack of all trades, master of none.
Well, at least she has a Masters. Doesn't mean I would subpoena her instead of Condi or Wolfowitz. The same reason I will listen to actual biologists than an advocate lawyer when it comes to evolution.
Right, and all this begins with the assumption that God is. I assume this is so, in part from creation all around us. You assume it is not so based on...your inability to believe? That's an honest question, and not meant to offend or demean.
"ID, carried to its logical end, IS creationism." And just as truthfully, evolution carried to its logical end requires abiogenesis ... yet requesting evolution scientists prove by example is touted as absurd. There are some strange forces at work on both sides of the debate.
Which part of that do you imagine makes her an expert in evolutionary biology?
Wrong question. What you, and your fellow ape-descendants, should be asking is what makes yourselves qualified to espouse and propagate an unproven theory, rife with deception and mendacious claims.
So she has no expertise, and rather than defend her inanities, you'd prefer to insult anyone who questions you. And you're actually surprised that ID/creationism has no traction, I'm sure.
Did Darwin have anything to do with application of evolution to social progress? Or, was social liberalism already in existence anyway just as relativity was a term in use in sociology long before Einstein's Year of Genius?
I believe a GOD probably exists I don't believe in the superstitious little god worshiped by most evangelicals who breathed life into mud and made man. That is a silly superstition akin to getting the 72 virgins in heaven. I also think science need to be taught in school not your mythology that you pass off as science.
No. We insist that our children not fall any further behind in science by indulging the whims of Schlafly and her ilk. I have nothing against Creationism. If you want to teach it in private or homeschool, go for it.
But it is not science, and should not be publicly funded. You say we ascribe to the religion of Evolution? No. We merely respect the scientific method, and where it leads us.
Ooh ooh ee ee
"Did evolution go nuts for millions of years and then just stop? An evolutionary age?"
Evolution does not work that way. As the theory explains, evolution through natural selection is a very slow-moving process requiring millions of years to produce results in living things. It is a continuous process, not something that happens in abundance at one point and then stops at another point in time. We tend not to find links or crossovers among species because all the species are still going through natural selection, and the species populations are still experiencing variations in physical traits.
I am about ten pages from finishing Ann's book. The best deconstruction of evolution I ever saw (in laymans terms) was on Fredoneverything.net - until I read her book. She most definitely twists the knife after insertion.
As evolutionists are forced to answer questions about their own "superscript font" (lame rathergate reference here), the house of cards completely collapses.
At least it does to those actually paying attention. ;)
>>The entire creationist belief system is predicated upon the notion that almost every scientist consciously puts aside the evidence to profess something they know is not true.<<
It may appear that way, especially to those on the "receiving end". But I don't think that is the case.
>>A whiner quoting the scientifically illiterate. Oh, yeah, I'm impressed. Not.<<
Ad hominem - after ten posts.
No doubt about it, this is a crevo thread.
>>The scientists studying and teaching evolutionary theory, knowing that it's an integral part of science, must always welcome criticism. What they don't welcome is persons who are totally ignorant of not just evolution, but of the methods of science entirely, telling them they're idiots and frauds and demanding that the government force them to teach to the students in their science classes that a religious creation myth is a valid alternative to genuine science<<
I agree. And if anyone ever tried to do that I would be again' it.
Well, they are descended from apes, so it's not expected that they practice good manners. ;^)
Did you read what Ann had to say about Archaeologists? It was actually pretty funny.
No offense. :)
The word "scientist" has about as broad a meaning as the word "evolution".
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