Comments on: The Discovery Institute & the Culture Wars: Giving up on Secrecy http://acandidworld.com/2008/08/10/difail/ Democracy in America Mon, 28 May 2012 22:56:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Contra Anonymous DI Legal Intern: Common Misconceptions About Intelligent Design, Part 1 « Submitted to a Candid World http://acandidworld.com/2008/08/10/difail/#comment-10925 Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:02:44 +0000 http://www.acandidworld.net/?p=1222#comment-10925 [...] the legality, and scientific nature, of teaching intelligent design (ID). I have to say, when your own fellows admit that ID isn’t a scientific theory, your credibility becomes a problem… but moving [...]

]]> By: The Trojan Horse is Empty « Submitted to a Candid World http://acandidworld.com/2008/08/10/difail/#comment-10774 Sat, 06 Jun 2009 15:48:09 +0000 http://www.acandidworld.net/?p=1222#comment-10774 [...] public eye (“Is intelligent design the same as creationism? No.”). But late last year, cracks started to develop, and on Monday (as PZ Myers acknowledges), the Discovery Institute’s Michael Egnor finally [...]

]]> By: bipolar2 http://acandidworld.com/2008/08/10/difail/#comment-5188 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:56:28 +0000 http://www.acandidworld.net/?p=1222#comment-5188 ** Super-size me Jesus! **

• Fattening the pigs of Animal Farm

Obama wants to reach out to fundies? Casting pearls before the swinish, he’s already carried obligatory politico-religious hypocrisy too far. The “Rev” Rick should be seen for the lying porker that he is. McCain was correct in 2000 about religious rot at the GOP’s core.

• Junk-food faith for a fat-head nation!

A nation overwhelmingly god-fearing also overwhelmingly rejects science. My fellow country-persons lack the critical intelligence to evaluate the garbage they put in their brains.

The US is an aberration among developed nations in its affinity for xian enthusiasms and in its failure to accept now elementary basic truths like evolution via natural selection.

• On the road to internal exile

America the free? Nonsense. I am an atheist, an *anti-supernaturalist* to be precise. Therefore, I belong to the most despised minority in the US. Why according to GHW Bush, I’m not fit to be a citizen.

I’ll tolerate fundies only when everyone’s “freedom of conscience” under the US Constitution is restored and respected. The US is still (barely) a secular state which has the misfortune of selective amnesia towards the political ideology of christo-fascism, dominionism. If you haven’t read Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” do it before election day.

The US has been a secular state from its inception. It is *not* one nation under a non-existent god. Nor under child molesting priests, nor under fanatical tax-dodging televangelists, nor under cabals of delusional fundies seeking to overthrow the Republic.

The people are sovereign.

bipolar2 © 2008

]]> By: Contra Anonymous DI Legal Intern: Common Misconceptions About Intelligent Design, Part 1 http://acandidworld.com/2008/08/10/difail/#comment-5189 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:00:57 +0000 http://www.acandidworld.net/?p=1222#comment-5189 [...] the legality, and scientific nature, of teaching intelligent design (ID). I have to say, when your own fellows admit that ID isn’t a scientific theory, your credibility becomes a problem… but moving [...]

]]> By: Cephus http://acandidworld.com/2008/08/10/difail/#comment-5187 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:54:09 +0000 http://www.acandidworld.net/?p=1222#comment-5187 You’re absolutely right, just look at Expelled for a good example. You’ve got Stein on the one side making it very clear that Intelligent Design is religious in nature and the guys from the Discovery Institute on the other going “SHHHH! Don’t tell anyone that!”

]]> By: Olorin http://acandidworld.com/2008/08/10/difail/#comment-5186 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 01:21:56 +0000 http://www.acandidworld.net/?p=1222#comment-5186 Casey Luskin’s post on Evolution News to spin away from Medved’s statement. Wait for it….

5…4…3…2…1…

]]> By: Gotchaye http://acandidworld.com/2008/08/10/difail/#comment-5185 Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:29:55 +0000 http://www.acandidworld.net/?p=1222#comment-5185 I imagine that, after Kitzmiller, ID has become less a method of convincing the larger world that creationism is scientific and more about keeping existing creationists on the same page. The point now is to provide intellectual cover for those creationists who want creationism in schools – they can argue their point without having to fully grasp what it is they’re doing.

]]> By: Martin http://acandidworld.com/2008/08/10/difail/#comment-5184 Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:42:12 +0000 http://www.acandidworld.net/?p=1222#comment-5184 Yup, that’s working fine:)

]]> By: Progressive Conservative http://acandidworld.com/2008/08/10/difail/#comment-5183 Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:15:51 +0000 http://www.acandidworld.net/?p=1222#comment-5183 “if you’re serious about your religion, as I try to be, then your religion is connected to everything you do – certainly to everything that’s important to you.”

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that attitude per se. I would argue that most people of faith allow their faith to guide them. But there are also eartly rules that are just as important. For example, I may think it is un-Christian to charge my client a 10% mark-up on a service we performed and think 5% is more reasonable, but it doesn’t mean I should subvert our accounting procedures to soothe my concience.

]]> By: Ames http://acandidworld.com/2008/08/10/difail/#comment-5182 Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:40:14 +0000 http://www.acandidworld.net/?p=1222#comment-5182 Is that okay at the bottom?

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