Notes"It would be a lot more helpful if you would advocate good science teaching and the importance of scientific understanding for a strong and thriving America."Unfurl
Notes"Either way, you need a hypothesis, and you need to test it -- but you know right then whether the end result, if it's proven, would be a theory or a law."Unfurl
Notes"It is not important to know how they work or where they come from; rather, it is enough to know they were created by a Designer, and that somehow they fit into some grand scheme."Unfurl
Notes"They think that the state has the perfect right to take your embryos away from you and implant them in another mother. And they think that they have the right and obligation to do this, even over your objections."Unfurl
Notes"They discriminate, exclude and belittle. They make a virtue of closed-mindedness and virulent ignorance. They are an ugly, violent lot." Amen.Unfurl
Notes"The Roman Catholic Church opposes such procedures because embryos often are destroyed in the process." At least they're consistent, I guess.Unfurl
Notes"Aping Hindu rituals to a T, a monkey appeared at an Orissa temple, prayed for an hour folding its hands in the traditional sign of respect, took prasad, put vermilion on its forehead - and then fled."Unfurl
Notes"In the nearly ten years since the publication of Behe’s book, by contrast, I.D. has inspired no nontrivial experiments and has provided no surprising insights into biology."Unfurl
Notes"Nestling deep in the Ozark mountains of Arkansas, in the heart of America's Bible Belt, this is the first dinosaur museum to take a creationist perspective."Unfurl
Notes"In order to live in this science-dominated world, you have to be able to discriminate between science and non-science ... They want to rewrite the rules of science."Unfurl
Notes"The Christian gamers' position is that, while you may fight the Devil and lose, you may not fight as the Devil." Yeah, but I bet play-as-Devil patches hit the net one week following release. Also, nude Mary Magdalene, ala Lara Croft.Unfurl
Notes"It’s always both cute and pathetic listening Fundamentalists try to use the language of empiricism ... sort of like seeing chimpanzees wear little human clothes ..."Unfurl
Notes"If the church thinks divorce and homosexuality are problematic, it should initiate the real dialogue to address these problems in-house rather than relying on state-sponsored coercion to affirm doctrinal beliefs."Unfurl
Notes"Not since the time of Noah has God used water so effectively to harass sinners and wreak havoc upon those who don't flatter Him with sufficient regularity."Unfurl
Notes"...one explanation for the high incidence of design inferences in American adults may be a lack of quality science education." So forcing Creationism into Science Education only worsens the situation.Unfurl
Notes"How would we have reacted to a powerful Arab mullah who appeared on television, on September 20, 2001, to read a passage from the Koran about how the fools who reject Allah will be thrown from their towers?"Unfurl
Notes"The primary reason I believe, of course, is because the Bible tells me so. That's good enough for me, because I haven't found the Bible to be wrong about anything else." Look harder.Unfurl
Notes"...millions of Christian fundamentalists may believe that environmental destruction is not only to be disregarded but actually welcomed – even hastened – as a sign of the coming apocalypse." Wow. Can we ship these people off to their own Earth, soUnfurl
Notes"I am sorry if my column offended you, but please understand: I am deeply offended by the notion that myths invented in the Bronze Age by superstitious desert nomads should be given exactly the same credence as the work of people like Darwin and EinsteinUnfurl
Notes'...churches could define whatever it was they called "marriage" (you know, that thing with a 50 percent success rate), and leave the government to certify legal "unions"...' So why not?Unfurl
Notes"So if we're going to cherry-pick biblical phrases and ignore the central message of love, then perhaps we should just ban marriage altogether?"Unfurl
Notes"I’m looking for a better option than either thundering self-righteousness or avoidance. It will involve risk. But it will also involve patience and gentleness and respect."Unfurl
Notes"Alas, the new iMac cannot bow before the cross. At best, it can only give a downward nod or an upward look, and that would just communicate half-hearted politeness rather than an attitude of worship." Those nutty Christians.Unfurl