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NoNukes Inactive Member |
Congressman Broun sits on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.
quote: Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846) The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead. William Lloyd Garrison. It's not too late to register to vote. State Registration Deadlines
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Percy Member Posts: 22392 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 5.3 |
He should sit on the "Say something stupid for Christ" committee.
--Percy
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5930 Joined: Member Rating: 5.8 |
He's also Tea Party. Our tax dollars at work.
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Larni Member (Idle past 164 days) Posts: 4000 From: Liverpool Joined: |
I don't understand how people like this guy and Todd Akin can get on government science committees.
How do they get these jobs handed to them, what is the vetting procedure?The above ontological example models the zero premise to BB theory. It does so by applying the relative uniformity assumption that the alleged zero event eventually ontologically progressed from the compressed alleged sub-microscopic chaos to bloom/expand into all of the present observable order, more than it models the Biblical record evidence for the existence of Jehovah, the maximal Biblical god designer. -Attributed to Buzsaw Message 53 The explain to them any scientific investigation that explains the existence of things qualifies as science and as an explanation-Attributed to Dawn Bertot Message 286 Does a query (thats a question Stile) that uses this physical reality, to look for an answer to its existence and properties become theoretical, considering its deductive conclusions are based against objective verifiable realities.-Attributed to Dawn Bertot Message 134
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Dogmafood Member (Idle past 349 days) Posts: 1815 From: Ontario Canada Joined: |
I have to wonder if the guy actually believes this or if he is just appealing to the majority of voters. The fact that this sort of nonsense appeals to the majority of voters is depressing. I find it hard to believe that these people actually believe this stuff. I know plenty of rational people who all of a sudden become irrational when it comes to god and religion. How do they keep the rationality of the rest of their lives from washing away the irrationality of their religious beliefs?
Penn Jillett has a great rant on the subject.
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jar Member (Idle past 394 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined:
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Remember that he is an MD as well.
Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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nwr Member Posts: 6408 From: Geneva, Illinois Joined: Member Rating: 5.1 |
Penn Jillett has a great rant on the subject.
Yes, that was good. When I hear, say on the news, "70% of people believe X", I sometime mumble to myself "they believe X when asked." There is an awful lot of social pressure, and a huge tendency for people to bow to that social pressure in what they say.Jesus was a liberal hippie
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NoNukes Inactive Member |
I have to wonder if the guy actually believes this or if he is just appealing to the majority of voters. Representative Broun has no immediate need to appeal to voters. He is not facing any opposition from Democrats, and he won the Republican primary back in July. As someone has pointed out, Broun is an MD. Not many people would have bothered or had the knowledge to include a denunciation of embryology in their anti-evolution rant rant. Most people probably think and hope that that the doctors they visit are scientists. When a fundy goes to the doctor for treatment instead of to Wednesday night Bible study, hasn't the fundy already made the call that he wants secular science to be applied to his condition? Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846) The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead. William Lloyd Garrison. It's not too late to register to vote. State Registration Deadlines
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Tanypteryx Member Posts: 4344 From: Oregon, USA Joined: Member Rating: 5.9
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Larni writes: How do they get these jobs handed to them, what is the vetting procedure? On any kind of science committee, the committee chair, if he is a republican, asks "do you believe in the big bang or evolution?". If the answer is NO, they are on the committee. Simple. Sometimes there are further questions, like "do you believe life begins at ejaculation?", but generally it is understood that if you are a republican in congress, you already believe that.What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy
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NoNukes Inactive Member |
Some stats on how Democrats and Republicans view the theory of evolution
Republicans, Democrats Differ on Creationism
Sixty percent of Republicans are Creationists of the Broun strip.Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846) The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead. William Lloyd Garrison. It's not too late to register to vote. State Registration Deadlines
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Larni Member (Idle past 164 days) Posts: 4000 From: Liverpool Joined: |
Sixty percent of Republicans are Creationists of the Broun strip. That is a crazy high percentage. In the UK it is 17% Site Not Configured | 404 Not FoundThe above ontological example models the zero premise to BB theory. It does so by applying the relative uniformity assumption that the alleged zero event eventually ontologically progressed from the compressed alleged sub-microscopic chaos to bloom/expand into all of the present observable order, more than it models the Biblical record evidence for the existence of Jehovah, the maximal Biblical god designer. -Attributed to Buzsaw Message 53 The explain to them any scientific investigation that explains the existence of things qualifies as science and as an explanation-Attributed to Dawn Bertot Message 286 Does a query (thats a question Stile) that uses this physical reality, to look for an answer to its existence and properties become theoretical, considering its deductive conclusions are based against objective verifiable realities.-Attributed to Dawn Bertot Message 134
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Tanypteryx Member Posts: 4344 From: Oregon, USA Joined: Member Rating: 5.9 |
A truly sad state of affairs!
And then the stupidest members of each group get elected to congress. What a crappy system we've ended up with.What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy
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bluescat48 Member (Idle past 4190 days) Posts: 2347 From: United States Joined: |
Yes but England does,'t have the TEAparty evangelicals to contend with.
Edited by bluescat48, : spThere is no better love between 2 people than mutual respect for each other WT Young, 2002 Who gave anyone the authority to call me an authority on anything. WT Young, 1969 Since Evolution is only ~90% correct it should be thrown out and replaced by Creation which has even a lower % of correctness. W T Young, 2008
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NoNukes Inactive Member |
He's also Tea Party. Yikes. You are right. Perhaps this wasn't news after all.Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846) The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead. William Lloyd Garrison. It's not too late to register to vote. State Registration Deadlines
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jar Member (Idle past 394 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
But remember he is not just on the Science and Technology committee, he's on the Health Committee and Natural Resources.
Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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