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It goes much deeper than that. This whole mess started when Good As You investigated and found that CFA had ties to a fundie group that is anti-gay, etc. Then fundies like Tony Perkins were calling them "militant homosexuals" and other ridiculous slurs when in fact Good As You was only telling people to make a decision on your own on whether to eat there. It was this reaction that fired up some members of the gay community, but of course fundies are constantly lying about gays and dehumanizing them. Personally I wouldn't touch their overpriced crap with a ten foot pole. For a couple of pennies I can eat a pickle with two tablespoons of salt between two slices of bread and get the same effect.

Once the nuclear furnace fuses elements on the periodic table up to iron gravity takes over. There's nothing to believe - it just happens.

So are teen pregnancy rates, STD rates, divorce rates, etc. I guess the US is falling apart socially, but it's "all 'dem liburals." Just an added note, this guy was completely 100% anti-gay (against hate crimes legislation, civil marriage for same sex couples, for the defense of marriage act and the constitutional ban on marriage for same sex couples). Apparently the claim for the protection of the "sanctity of marriage" didn't apply to his own, as he found it completely appropriate to bop (at least one) of his staffers. That, my friends, is one definition of hypocrisy - and it always comes from the "family values republican christians."

Classic! This one on "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" is also good: http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2010/03/22/100322sh_shouts_rudnick#ixzz0j2LEyA9J

Ditto.

That tells me YOU have issues with white people in general.... and christians..... well jews too... and that certainly is borne out with your incessant hatred towards anyone not muslim such as IDF or americans in any mideast conflict against your brown brothers. Do you ever wonder how many traitors we have in this country, those who would sell out this country or harm this country.. for their muslim religion??? I think your 1% is a VERY low number. WOAH! You'd better be careful and slow down. The US has a long history under republican regimes, yes, I wrote regimes, of murderous tactics of Middle-Eastern citizens, from the Iranian debacle back in the '50s to Reagan's cynical happiness of deaths in Iran and Iraq for eight years to George Bush's ultimate order to kill thousands of retreating Iraqi medical personnel after a cease fire to his son's illiterate move to invade Iraq with its "Alqaida" connections. The "good christian republicans" have been responsible for millions of senseless deaths of Muslims over the last 50 years, and you'd know this if your source of news was beyond Fat Limbaugh and Fixed Noise. I'm an American, and an Atheist. Islam is a religion that is far more peaceful than christianity. Do your research. It's not that difficult.

Well, Miss California certainly is a bigot, and one could argue Perez is too although I prefer to see him as a whiney bitch. Miss California needs to understand that marriage is a civil contract that does not involve christianity. She also needs to understand that the "biblical" definition of marriage is far from "one man and one woman." Therefore, she is the bigger bigot IMO, but even worse, she's a bumbling, air-headed, stupid bitch.

I'm not a gifted scientist either, but this argument fails in so many ways it's laughable - on scientific and logical grounds.

Well, this particular world, and all of the others in our universe, certainly weren't created. They evolved from collapsing clouds of gas and dust resulting in stars and their satellites (if any). The dust itself was the result of supernovea explosions - the deaths of massive stars that collapse upon themselves so violently that fusion produces the higher elements on the periodic table and subsequently this dust is blown back into space. When these clouds come close enough to other clouds, gravity takes over and another star is formed. It's simply a recycling process. If I had to bet - I'd go with the big bang - a singularity erupting into a fireball resulting in our universe. There is evidence for it - an expanding, cooling universe. How did it all originate? I don't know - but that doesn't mean that question will never be answered.

LOL! I'm quite sure he's not familiar with it.

I'm all for this, and I can't wait for the US to catch up with other progressive nations on this planet to ensure that two committed same-sex couples enjoy the same equality to destroy the "sanctity" of marriage that only christian heterosexual couples in the US have been able to exploit at a 50% rate.

Katrina was clearly in god's Accu-Wrath weather forecast for New Orleans in light of the impending gay pride parade. Considering the unbelievable number of Americans that believe this shit, why would you ask such a ridiculous question?

The Left is not upset, they know that he is not a fundamentalist. A fundamentalist would not support many of his views. Correction made.

It may have been sensational but it was quite accurate. Both Metropolitan Edison and the NRC were in complete denial of the condition of the reactor despite clear evidence to the contrary. The public quickly caught on to what it viewed as lies. That coupled with the fear of an unseen killer that is radiation resulted in the negative public opinion of nuclear power in general.

If properly overseen I have would have no fear at all of even living next door to a nuclear facility, but the industry itself has obstacles that it cannot overcome - some of which could lead to disaster. Operators aren't trained to properly handle common mode failures (two or more simultaneous, independent failures - which led to the TMI accident, for example). Those who could comprehend the intimate workings of the "machine" that is the reactor are usually overqualified to be operators. The NRC is comprised mostly of people not familiar with the technology. No one has been able to come up with a good solution for the disposal of spent fuel. The enormous costs of construction and INSURANCE make it virtually unapproachable by the utilities, etc. Fear it or not - it's not a viable solution for our future energy needs.

Actually I wasn't talking out of my ass - I wrote that I viewed a trailer and my comment is based on that. Listen, I'm a trained scientist myself and it sickens me that these ID folks have only one agenda - to shove their mythology down young, impressionable, scientifically immature students. That to me is child abuse, plain and simple.

I was actually going to see this until I saw a trailer where Stein is sitting in the back of what was clearly a biology classroom where a lecturer was discussing evolution. He repeatedly asks "how did it all begin?" in the most annoying way. Good grief - abiogenesis has absolutely nothing to do with evolutionary biology. You'd think someone involved with the film would know this. But then again these are the same people who cannot grasp the basics of the scientific method and thus realize ID has no business being taught in any science curricula.

Actually it's pretty clear it certainly wasn't for electrical generation - no transmission lines, poor location and no turbines.

Why was it bullshit with Nixon? He was a geopolitical genius and garnered much respect for the US from the international community. Leaders around the world had great respect for him. It would be delusional to believe Bush would ever earn such a title.

"Believe in" is improper in this context. The correct question is "do you accept the big bang theory?" The theory is that our universe erupted into a fireball from a singularity. Scientists can explain the evolution of the universe from a point just after the eruption. The reason I accept the theory is that it has supporting evidence (expanding and cooling universe). As to how the singularity came to be remains unknown, so you aren't the only one who questions that. The best we can do is discover what we are able to given the evidence.

They think nothing of tossing around a few million years here on earth. Why should 1 yr. of light speed make a difference? Is that what you think scientists do - toss around a few million years? Distance and age measurements of the universe are only approximate. The age of the earth, for example, is approximately 4.5 billion years, give or take 200 million years or so. This is determined by the measurements of radioactive decay of SEVERAL elements. An error of 100 million years either way makes for quite an accurate estimate.

Doesn't that mean neither supporting nor denying the idea of ID? How can anything be "neutral" and only discuss one side of it? Actually I meant the "neutral" comment concerning religion and government (not ID in particular). Any governmental entity should be absolutely neutral concerning religion - it should not promote one over any other - this is what Newdow is fighting to preserve. "In God We Trust" is just as offensive as "In Allah We Trust" or "In Zeus We Trust" to me. As has already been mentioned ID is not a scientific theory, and for that reason alone it shouldn't be discussed in biology classes. Where should it be discussed? Church, home or religious studies courses.

You and many others think he is an asshole, but I agree with everything he's trying to do. Any governmental agency should be absolutely neutral concerning religion. Also, how could you see no difference between Newdow and Robertson (on opposing sides)? Robertson is a vile being who has on several occasions endorsed the killing of his fellow human beings and recites the ugliest of hatred towards gays and atheists, among others.

But shouldn't public schools be secular in nature in their curricula? This is exactly as it should be. ID is not a competing scientific theory to evolutionary biology - it is not even a scientific theory.

Like you know, wait, if you are liberal you THINK you know, sorry I base my statements on logic and evidence. That's all. If you're presenting evidence for "god did it all" versus biological evolution, please expound forth. Global Warming? I can't comment on that, as I am not an expert in the field. Unfortunately there are plenty of parents teaching their children that creationism is a fact and evolutionary biology is a complete falsehood - a "religion," so to speak. The bottom line is that any scientific branch of research is testable and falsifiable, valid statistical studies are just that - valid, etc. Politics has nothing to do with this discussion.