[Osx-nutters] The separation of church and state.

[Charles Bennett]

On Dec 5, 2007, at 9:40 AM, Chris Gehlker wrote:

>
> On Dec 5, 2007, at 5:47 AM, David P. Henderson wrote:
>
>> That is not correct. ID is nothing more than a name change in
>> reaction to a US Supreme Court ruling on teaching Creationism back in
>> the late 1980s. Check out the NOVA documentary on the failed attempt
>> of the Dover, PA School Board to insert an ID statement into the
>> science curriculum: specifically "Chapter 10: Separation of Church
>> and State." The documentary is available online at <http://
>
> I'm pretty sure David knows that. ID is a new tactic though, and it
> might have been more successful if the creationists had been better at
> concealing that it was just a tactic.
>

I was told by a friend that, in the Penn. case,  they didn't even  
correctly edit their own material, so "Creationism" popped up in a  
couple of places that should have said "Intelligent Design" and the  
Judge reamed them...

Want to fuck with the ID/Theist folks?

Try this tack.

I tell them they are "Almost Athiests, in that they believe in just  
ONE more God than I do.   I then tell them that if they can explain to  
me why all of the other gods are "false" gods, then they will  
understand why I don't believe in theirs..

If they are capable of thought, it makes them squirm..

(It's not original, but it been so long I don't know where the idea  
first popped up in conversation..)

=c=