Kristine
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| Quote (didymos @ April 21 2008,12:52) | WAD wants to fill your chasm:
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You think the following statement from the AAAS is going to help heal the chasm in our society over evolution and ID*?
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Oh, so that's what Expelled is really about: healing the rift between Science and Faith. All that stuff on Nazi's and Academic Freedom is just a sideline. Really, what matters is that the two camps need to come together....like at an intersection or, what's the word I'm looking for? Crossroads?
Hey, WAD: fill your own chasm. |
So WAD wants me to believe in God. Fine. I wish he and Ben Stein et al would come out and say it. 
Quit trying to trick me with intelligent design and all that crap. But they have to guarantee a "win."
The real problem is, even if I were to believe in a god, I wouldn’t believe in the “right” one to satisfy them. I would still accept evolution as both a theory and a fact, and while religion makes a belief in the afterlife possible, I would still think that it has nothing whatsoever to do with what you think inside your head (i.e., no hell). I wouldn’t fit in at SWTS. I wouldn’t be a global warming denier. Well, that's not good enough for them, either.
So WAD is fighting two battles – against atheists, and against believers who don’t fudge the science (and we already know this). But my point is, WAD should be talking about these two “chasms” at the very least, then. But in fact, he and his friends are waging a War Against Everything—science, education, the “liberal” media, Hollywood, the best seller list, the art world, the music world, potential film audiences, belly dancers, etc.  My point is: Who expelled whom? He can rejoin reality any time he wants to for pity’s sake! Once he and Ftk and Kevin & Co. stop going around pushing doors marked “Pull” on this desert isle that they themselves have exiled themselves to, that is.
Nobody kicked them out of the sandbox but themselves, so it's no one else's fault that their battles are multiplying. Yeah, go have a bad day on your kid's birthday about this crap! (It's not like I think that evolution is ever going to thank me for all my much speaking on its behalf.)
Someone at my blog said, "This is much ado about nothing" - and really, it is. (It's been a fun nothing, though.) 
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