Posted on 06/29/2010 4:21:08 AM PDT by Christian_Capitalist
Rand Paul Won’t Say How Old the Earth Is
Charles Johnson
The Lizard Annex 6-28-2010
From PageOneKentucky.com, here’s a video of GOP candidate Rand Paul addressing a convention of Christian homeschoolers, and dodging a question about the age of the Earth.
The questions asked by the homeschoolers in the video: 1) are you a Christian, 2) how old is the Earth, and 3) will you let the UN take our children. Yep, really. And these are the teachers asking these questions. They’re raising a generation of kids who are ignorant anti-science fanatics, afraid that the United Nations is going to come and kidnap them. Good grief.
Did he dodge the question because he’s a creationist and he knows that he shouldn’t reveal it for political reasons, or because he’s not a creationist and he knows he shouldn’t reveal it for political reasons? Either way, this is very sleazy behavior.
My opinion: I think he probably is a creationist, just like his father Ron Paul, because his world view matches the creationist world view in every respect.
The commies have to get our kids. That's why they seek to outlaw homeschooling and parental authority. It is the current and active agenda of the left to make sure that those kids you're "breeding" end up as the ideological children of the left.
The actual demand of the actual free market is not just in education, it is ALSO in what someone is going to DO with that education.
The Free Market has a demand for actual highly trained biologists.
The Free Market has no similar demand for highly trained creationists.
If ‘you and your kind’ refuse to teach your kids science in this highly competitive and increasingly technological world you may well out-breed us; but quality has a way of winning out over quantity.
My “kind” will say “The results of these data do not show statistical significance between groups”.
Your “kind” will say “Do you want fries with that?”
Not always.
If they aren’t they’re sued into oblivion by some God hating parent in cahoots with the ACLU.
Would you like to see AGAIN the statistics showing grassroots support for teaching creation in public schools? I’d have to look it up but I know I have it available.
2006 nationwide CBS Poll:
Numerous further studies could be cited, all of similar percentages.
School boards, even in conservative strongholds, that introduce creationist lesson plans, get thrown out by voters. How do you explain this?
It's proven useless to fight the Supreme Court's protection of Evolutionism in the Government Schools.
Ergo, the solution is not to attempt to "capture" the Government Schools, but simply to abolish them.
He who pays the piper, calls the tune. None of your arguments really matter, if Creationist Parents get to choose with their pocketbooks, as to what kind of schools we wish to send our kids.
We'll out-spend and out-breed you and your kind. Simple as that.
School boards that attempt to introduce creationism in school get voted out of office.
Moreover, once you decide to teach religious beliefs in public school; do you teach Mormonism in Utah, Islam in Michigan? How would that be determined?
I also have stats on SAT/ACT scores for homeschoolers.
Given the fact that there's a lot more of us than there are of you, and the fact that we breed a lot more kids -- allow the Free Market to work, and in a few generations "your kind" won't say anything at all.
Because there won't be enough economic demand to support Evolution-Only Schools.
You claimed that 80% support teaching creationism.
“Since those who support the teaching of Creationism as the sole or alternate explanation of life on Earth (80% of all Americans)”
Got a source for that?
And you seem to be blind to the fact that there is more than just education at stake here. The Free Market is not just education. It is what PRODUCTS and SERVICES you are going to provide WITH that education.
Science education provides value, there is a Free Market demand for highly trained scientists.
There is no similar Free Market demand for highly trained creationists.
That is because science produces value in terms of discovery and products.
Creationism produces nothing of value.
Actually, this parents Christian creationist homeschooled kids were all INVITED to join the honors programs in their respective big name private universities.
The public school kids they know are the ones flipping burgers.
The public school system is so abysmal that there’s no way that the couple days they spend on the ToE n Sophomore Biology is going to make any difference in the future of those illiterate dropouts.
I know. And the homeschoolers ALWAYS crush the Evolutionists in every area of intellectual endeavor.
But, the Evolutionists like to believe that they're the "smart ones", all competitive evidences to the contrary.
So, I don't even bother getting into a pizzing contest with these Evolutionist morons whom I know don't rank anywhere near my own 1490 SAT score (I really think I could have broken 1550 if I wasn't such an undisciplined wild child, and had actually studied for the thing -- and I'm an old enough coot to be talking about the old SATs, not the more recent dumbed-down versions). I permit them their conceits...
...and just remind them that the only reason that Evolutionism survives, is the Subsidy and Monopoly advantages that they enjoy due to Evolutionist Government Schooling.
Eliminate that, and they'll be bred out of existence soon enough.
Therefore there will be Free Market demand for education that would produce a scientist.
The Free Market has use for science.
The Free Market has found no productive use for creationism.
You use a funny selective advantage natural selection argument for someone who doesn't subscribe to the theory of evolution through natural selection of genetic variation!
My and my “kind”, assuming we reproduce after our kind, will be highly trained professionals with advanced degrees in science, and high paying jobs, provided by the Free Market, because they know that we will produce value.
Creationism (55%), or Theistic Evolutionism (27%).
55% + 27% = 82%
Are you actually incapable of simple arithmetic? Really?
I wouldn't worry about it. Most fast-food places have registers which will do the math for you, these days. I'm sure you'll be fine.
And you seem to be blind to the fact that there is more than just education at stake here. The Free Market is not just education. It is what PRODUCTS and SERVICES you are going to provide WITH that education.
You just don't get it, do you?
Given the Economic choice, we will not send our children to Evolutionist Schools, REGARDLESS of your purported "Product Value" for Evolutionism.
It doesn't matter what "Product Value" you believe Evolutionism has, if Parents aren't willing to spend money teaching it to their kids. Given a Free Market educational system, Creationist Parents WILL NOT send our children to Evolutionist Schools, because we consider it a form of Child Abuse.
Evolution-Only Schools will die out, because the Parents, who have the Money, won't purchase their services.
Preach on, Eagle Eye.
Actually, he has. You just don't believe him.
I repeat:
Given the Economic choice, we will not send our children to Evolutionist Schools, REGARDLESS of your purported "Product Value" for Evolutionism.
It doesn't matter what "Product Value" you believe Evolutionism has, if Parents aren't willing to spend money teaching it to their kids. Given a Free Market educational system, Creationist Parents WILL NOT send our children to Evolutionist Schools, because we consider it a form of Child Abuse.
Evolution-Only Schools will die out, because the Parents, who have the Money, won't purchase their services.
We’re already teaching religious beliefs in public schools, secular humanism and atheism, which is being dictated by the government.
Local schools should be paid for and run by local communities and reflect local communities standards.
Government control of public schools has ruined them, as it ruins EVERYTHING the government gets its hands on.
You cannot justify the damage done to education in this country all in the name of supporting the teaching of evolution. Kids in public schools can barely read and write, if they graduate in the first place.
How do you think that teaching the ToE is going to correct that? Will it make them more literate and numerate?
If they can barely read and write, what makes you think that they can correctly understand the ToE and what harm do you think that teaching creation is going to do?
Until the Scopes Trials and evolution was introduced into public schools and creation gradually edged out, all kids were taught creationism and the Bible and it happened during the first couple centuries of this country’s history, when tremendous advances were made in scientific research and technology.
Clearly that situation didn’t hinder the progress we made then.
Public education has continued to decline in the last century, at the same time that creationism was being forced out of public schools and evolution introduced.
It goes to disprove your assertion that bringing creation back into public schools is going to ruin public education.
You’re now left trying to explain how the very thing that you claim is necessary for our country to succeed coincides with the steady continued decline of science and math in the public education sector, and how your solution is going to improve it.
My kid’s were 1530 SAT, 32 ACT and 33 ACT.
And all going into science/technology fields.
Real dummies, eh?
I confess the sin of Envy, but applaud your parentage.
Now I really wish I had studied for the SATs. I really would have liked to break 1500, at least. 1490 was just so close, I could taste it.
Oh well, I have my excuses. Hard for a teenage kid to have much discipline when his dad just died.
And this comment really shows your prejudices and arrogance that has turned me off from homeschoolers such as yourself. I teach them at the freshman/sophomore college level. Physics. And they're great at reiterating and regurgitating. Haven't seen one yet that is as good thinking outside the box as they are being an information automaton. Your supposed scientific arrogance and elitist attitude is a perfect example of what I see daily in class. It does not do the Christian faith good. (And I am one)
Next time, why don't you try getting to know me a little better before you start with the insults. Thank you for your concern.
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