We don’t need high school classrooms being used to further an anti-religious agenda, either.

Teaching basic science is not an anti-religious agenda.

How about we compromise and teach evolution (not creationism which is not science) in college?

How about we continue teaching basic science in school? I can;t imagine what could possibly be going on in your head that would make you think that it’s in any way okay to stop teaching basic science in school in order to abase ourselves to religious fanatics.

Your entire comment is a massive false equivalency and an apologia for religious fundamentalism.

That was for the militant atheists. Now to the fundamentalists; stop pushing creationism. It’s stupid. Sure, you don’t want your kids to think they’re animals with no souls. Why not explain to your kids the concept of paradox? Evolution and faith can coexist because of paradox. They’ll understand better when they’re older. But stop promoting that creationism crap and demanding that politicians pretend that they don’t know that it’s crap.

“The word God is for me is nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this.”

“It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.”

Anyone who claims Einstein believed in God is perpetuating a lie.

i’d love to restrict their votes, but who decides who votes? slippery slope.

I don’t want to restrict anyone’s vote no matter how ignorant they are. Although, I certainly do want to change the electoral voting system so it doesn’t give more votes to people that live out in the sticks (who are over-saturated with right wing radio air pollution) than people who live in cities.

But, what I am talking about is that we need to stop catering to dogmatic imbeciles and move humanity forward ourselves. They keep us stuck in the mud debating with them while we should be taking care of dire issues instead.

The “debate” over evolution was solved a very long time ago and the media needs to ignore these morons so we can all evolve. And, we sure as hell as Americans need to vote these dimwits the hell OUT of office ASAP.

where do you intend to leave them?

I’d like to leave them without vast control of our government, natural resources, human rights, etc. They need to be sidelined while the rest of us try to fix this horrific mess they’ve made for us all. They’ve proven themselves not only to be inept, but also dangerous.

how far do you think we can get without their economic/ populous input?

It would be like releasing chains on humanity.

I’m a Christian, and my position is that if your personal interpretation of the bible contradicts observable and provable facts, then you’d have to be unbelievably arrogant to think that your interpretation trumps reality.

“Why, that feller looks like one of those science-y folks. Why should I trust HIS opinion about science?”

That said though, I do think his view on creationism is really short-sighted. In fact, he might be surprised to learn that about half the scientists in the world are deists.

On the “religiosity” scale, deism is about as far from creationism as you can possibly get.  Your opposition to atheism is completely off-topic.

If you’re going to say “well, deism is creationism because you believe the universe is created” don’t bother.  It’s one of the stupidest arguments ever made, right up there with Otto’s (of the Simpsons) “they call them fingers but you never see them fing!”

Unless we can convince James Cameron to start doing erotica.  Letter writing campaign?

Another way to say it is if your theory being true requires almost all other scientific knowledge to be false you probably need to go back to the drawing board.

Well I’m sick of the lot of you, I cant be bothered to reason with you any more, I’m astonished that nice reasonable people like Bill Nye continue to try and do so.

Just remember this, those of us who believe that science is a useful tool and does the job of identifying how the universe works very well, just remember when the first couple of billion people die as a result of climate change or something else we discovered by using science. Just remember that we told you so but you chose to be stupid and cleverly argue your way out of responsibility for anything because it went against your religious beliefs.

I believe that religious zealotry itself damns the human race to extinction. That’s not a scientific fact unlike the age of the earth but it is my belief.

I wanna raid his browser cache, providing he doesn’t delete it on a regular basis or use private browsing. Also, check out his DVD stash.

Sorry to make the point, but as a liberal Baptist who fully subscribes to the theory of evolution, it felt like a distinction worth making!