Fight For Science (But Pick Your Battles)

If you are fighting for science, you are fighting for truth. But we do have to focus our efforts.

I was going to wait until August to post this, but it seems relevant since the debate about evolution in the Texas State Board of Education was rekindled (and may have already fizzled).

I filmed this with the iPhone 3GS and Olympus Stylus Tough (an old model).
I thought the waves would be a nice background noise, but they came across more like constant white noise. Sorry about that.

AP News:
Debate Begins http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_16053/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=cdew4Tnp
Fight Fizzles http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_15980/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=08eJYvEb

Texas Freedom Network: http://www.tfn.org/
National Center for Science Education: http://ncse.com/
Friends Of Texas Public Schools: http://fotps.org/ -- I haven't checked this site out more than just the surface, but it looks like a good group
Camp Quest Texas: http://campquesttexas.org/

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[mouthyweasel]

3:00 "I don't have to make it my mountain to die on."..... where do you think that expression comes from? Jesus dying on a hill called Calvary. It infects us, religion. This Bronze age superstition stultifies potential. The only difference between a christian and an ex-christian is that the ex-christian has read the bible. It's AWFUL. Embarrassing. NOT divine. Wake up, America. Put your "faith" in science and education. Don't ABUSE the minds of your children w/ bronze age fairy tales.

[ReligiousFiction]

@mouthyweasel - Hmm. I never thought of that phrase as being biblical. I always pictured someone scrambling up a hill with a flag in a post-enlightenment battle. I'm going to have to wiki that...

Hmm. Google did bring up an Exodus quote first. Seems like a reasonable explanation of the 'genesis' of that phrase... bad pun intended.

[crazedNdiffused]

Does your imaginary bass ackward straw family represents Christianity and validate your unsubstantiated nonsense? Or are you hi at the beach again?

Who paid for that education that left you socially clueless?

I want you to give back every cent of tax payers money you have usurped and every charity you have deprived a rational needy person of.

You can actually keep a smiling straight face falsely accusing all your benefactors? The Muslim is coming and he will set you straight.

[ReligiousFiction]

@crazedNdiffused - You certainly are crazed, and your statements are diffuse.

[DukeNavarre]

Yep. You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. The downside is that you have to think of your relatives as "flies". ;)

It's sad, but being demonstrably correct in your assertions is less persuasive to most people (i.e, the people who most need convincing) than being charming.

Don't take it yourself, your success in an argument, or your subject matter too seriously, and they'll take you more seriously.

It's ridiculous.

[tmmy773]

@tr2006x i can see what you're saying...and i think we should respect each other's ideas. but for me the breath of God is a better explanation for life. But i agree the Bible (OT) is mostly collection of stories from the Bronze age (or older). But that in itself doesn't make them not true or based on truth.

[tr2006x]

@tmmy773 Evolution is a much better explanation than this: "Genesis 2:7 the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being." :)))

It is supported by evidence too. The bible is a collection of fairy-tales conceived by Bronze Age people.

Actually I cannot conceive a more stupid explanation than the one provided by Genesis.

[brightgeistmovies]

support zoos? i don't think so!

[lolippi]

@afar1 lol you failed

[tmmy773]

@ReligiousFiction I believe in the changing nature of our world but also it is balanced with constants,

such as evolution within a species and not extra-species. Evolutionists try to claim no constants, that everything in flux and true Christians believe there are starting points and natural order. If a Christian believes in the modern view of evolution he or she is lukewarm and denies the word of the Lord. The bible clearly states creation of species. Do deny this is also denying the bible.

[crazedNdiffused]

@ReligiousFictionI Google'd it. Can't flack anyone helping but I do question a group that asks in the name of the Red Cross and then promises to give 100% to the Red Cross. I bet the red Cross would not support their mission statement you moron. Are you also color blind? No red in your perception of color? Picture a flag covered in cranberry sauce. It's called red flag' I'll just give directly to the red cross and avoid any risk based upon well documented human nature.

[mouthyweasel]

@ReligiousFiction Hmm, indeed. I reserve the right to recant my previous aspersion. "...Not my hill to die on," may actually be reference to military rather than biblical lore. Sometimes I'm overzealous in pointing an accusatory & admonishing finger at religion. I had no proof to substantiate my claim. I just HOPE I'm right!

Lesson: It's so easy to just admit when you don't know things with certainty. It's comfortable. It's honest. Religious holier than thou assholes should try it.

[crazedNdiffused]

@ReligiousFiction I am not a straw man like the people you create to validate your liberal insanity. Be specific and I will answer.