Charles Darwin film 'too controversial for religious America'

[HAL 9000 96]

I've always been curious of why America is one of the few, if not the only of advanced countries who still can't accept evolution as science and leave it out books and it's questioned.. I guess fundamentalism is quite strong, and I'm not sure that's a good thing. Even in countries with a high homogeneous religion, i.e. any Catholic country, don't have any problem with combining religion and evolution. Is it really just american protestantism?

I am not willing to blame any one organized religion. To me this is a social stupidity issue that ranks right up there with the things we allow out government to do to us in the name of certain cliched concepts of freedom and the apparent danger of critical thought as opposite to these same things.

yea I guess you're right, maybe after all leaving education to each state's jurisdiction is not a good Idea, without comparing it to international standards, it's dangerous to leave it to some numbnut that thinks that Fred Flintstone chilled with the Dinosaurs, and Evolution is fake since it doesn't go along with his beliefs

Its really scary that this is going on in what is supposed to be the most advanced country on the planet. As far as we know, our species only lives on this one planet... which makes it all the more scary to be faced with such ignorance.

[pedroh 21]

yea agree.. this really poses a problem with the ideal of 'freedom' that this country is so proud of giving to its individuals, is freedom so worth it even in if promotes ignorance?

[jundp 191]

Well we have a (deceased) mafia hitman on my wife's side (no joke).

I'll see your deceased Mafia family member and raise you a familial relationship to the Duke of Northumberland.....(wrong side of blankets 200+ years ago).....

Oooh. I'll see your Mafia man and royal connections and raise you a (unfortunately I am NOT joking) KKK leader and, in the same family line, a civil rights lawyer!

THAT is a combination!

I'm folding. ....

[HAL 9000 96]

yea agree.. this really poses a problem with the ideal of 'freedom' that this country is so proud of giving to its individuals, is freedom so worth it even in if promotes ignorance?

What would Kanye say?

[pedroh 21]

He'd probably say that Creationism is good, but that Kanye's Big Bang is better.. because of course, he might have created the universe

[HAL 9000 96]

He'd probably say that Creationism is good, but that Kanye's Big Bang is better.. because of course, he might have created the universe

that might explain everything speeding up away from the event horizon.

[pedroh 21]

maybe God's voice is like him singing thru a vocoder

[HAL 9000 96]

the outrage! Time for some Ezekiel..

[HAL 9000 96]

or...

[NickD 203]

World is already getting too complicated, I definitely need more RAM in my brain and recall is getting bad, took me two days to recall a house address I knew very well 25 years ago. Learn a computer language, it's obsolete in a couple of years, way to many different kinds of medications to remember, can't even memorized the 1,525 different government agencies we now have nor the eleven thousand pages of IRS rules and regulations. If I call someone, have to memorize 2-4 numbers instead of one. Just getting way to complicated, has to be an easier way.

[Joseph & Ana 0]

Where did the matter come from in the big bang? Was it created or is it eternal? No other choice.

Can you give an example of when something ever explodes and creates order? Why did it explode?

How does life form from non-living material? They may have gotten some amino acids and tar when they tried to zap life into existence, but thats not life. And if they did create life, it only proves that intelligence is needed to create life.

You claim you've proven macro-evolution - I'm not seeing it. Saying, "read so and so journal" is a cop-out. Just post here proof that one creature had different creatures later on down its line. Or do you believe in Ontogeny (sp?)Recapitulates Phylogeny?

World is already getting too complicated, I definitely need more RAM in my brain and recall is getting bad, took me two days to recall a house address I knew very well 25 years ago. Learn a computer language, it's obsolete in a couple of years, way to many different kinds of medications to remember, can't even memorized the 1,525 different government agencies we now have nor the eleven thousand pages of IRS rules and regulations. If I call someone, have to memorize 2-4 numbers instead of one. Just getting way to complicated, has to be an easier way.

I would say more disorder than complex.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Personally I believe that the universe and everything in it IS God.

[Peikko 1,575]

Excellent, we have at least one promoter of creatinism, the false god of ignorance, in our midst. How delightful.

[Joseph & Ana 0]

Excellent, we have at least one promoter of creatinism, the false god of ignorance, in our midst. How delightful.

And we have at least one person who never addresses anything but attacks poster after poster. DELIGHTFUL!

You shouldn't use broad generalisations to label this group or that. Because i'm asking questions that doesn't mean i'm a creationist. How do you know every issue that I agree or disagree with? hmmm? How do you know i'm not an old earth creationist? Hmmm?

Maybe you should address the issue at hand rather than slapping labels and grouping people together as "creationists" and "evolutionists". There are so many middle areas you aren't addressing here.

Sound familiar?

[Nik+Heather 122]

yea agree.. this really poses a problem with the ideal of 'freedom' that this country is so proud of giving to its individuals, is freedom so worth it even in if promotes ignorance?

What would Kanye say?

Ooh, I was disappointed that other thread got shut down, because I wanted to ask if anyone had seen the smackdown Jay Leno gave him....