Espresso Shots [09-27-05]
'Intelligent Design' Debate Underway in Pa. Court
Eight Pennsylvania families are suing the Dover Area School District "for requiring ninth-grade students to hear a brief statement about intelligent design before biology classes on evolution." Aparently, these families feel the statement violates a separation of church and state. In a nearly unprecedented move (at least since the Scopes Monkey Trial in '25), a Darwinist from Brown University (a school founded as a result of the work of James Manning, a Baptist minister from the Philadelphia Association of Baptists, I might add) has taken the stand as an expert witness for the plaintiff--and allowed himself open to cross-examination, which should be fun. For an interesting and thorough analysis of the trial and testimony, see Jonathan Witt's post at the Center for Science & Culture.
I would just like to point out the progression of naturalism as it inched it's way into American society as conveyed in this FoxNews report:
Always Somebody Else's Fault
CNN Reports:
A darn shame.
You Knew It Was Coming...Didn't You?
Here's some intelligent commentary for you from the pen of Associated Press writer, Tom Raum:
Is this guy serious? Of course things were handled differently. What lunatic would think that these two storms would be handled the same way? I like to think we learn from our mistakes sometimes. As I recall, the governor of Louisiana and the mayor of New Orleans handled things differently, too. This is much ado about nothing except some far-left MSM "reporter" wanting to stir up an already aggitated hornets nest and get as much mileage out of this race angle as possible. It's just more of the same old, tired politics game. I really hope people aren't so naive that they can't see through this one. Perhaps I'm naive to suggest such a thing. Could someone please give this guy Jesse Jackson's phone number? I hear he needs a new press secretary. Never mind, I forgot Jackson's having tea at Sheehan's house, anyway.
If you really feel you must read the rest of this, the full story is here. For a little balance (and a great read, I must say), check out David Warren's article published in the Ottawa Citizen newspaper (Canada) on September 11, 2005.
Eight Pennsylvania families are suing the Dover Area School District "for requiring ninth-grade students to hear a brief statement about intelligent design before biology classes on evolution." Aparently, these families feel the statement violates a separation of church and state. In a nearly unprecedented move (at least since the Scopes Monkey Trial in '25), a Darwinist from Brown University (a school founded as a result of the work of James Manning, a Baptist minister from the Philadelphia Association of Baptists, I might add) has taken the stand as an expert witness for the plaintiff--and allowed himself open to cross-examination, which should be fun. For an interesting and thorough analysis of the trial and testimony, see Jonathan Witt's post at the Center for Science & Culture.
I would just like to point out the progression of naturalism as it inched it's way into American society as conveyed in this FoxNews report:
The history of evolution litigation dates back to the famous 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, in which Tennessee biology teacher John T. Scopes was fined $100 for violating a state law that forbade teaching evolution. The Tennessee Supreme Court reversed his conviction on the narrow ground that only a jury trial could impose a fine exceeding $50, and the law was repealed in 1967.Within a span of approximately 60 years, America went from Evolution being illegal to its acceptance as a legitimate subject to its dominance in schools to creationism's illegality. The staggering thing is that through this evolution, if you will, the majority of the population remained convinced of the existence of a Supreme Being. What gives? Darwinisms determination (plus the backing and P.R. of the materialistic scientific community) along with Christianity's apathy and anti-intellectualism of the mid-twentieth century made for a lethal combination. It's time for another change, don't you think?
In 1968, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned an Arkansas state law banning the teaching of evolution. And in 1987, it ruled that states may not require public schools to balance evolution lessons by teaching creationism.
Always Somebody Else's Fault
CNN Reports:
We don't know why this occurred? OK, Chief Biasotti, here we go: dude uses company computer to carry out his wildest, humanistic and instinctive (therefore, obviously legitimate) desires through the use of porn...company finds out...fires dude...dude gets mad that company found out and fired said dude...dude feels he has no responsibility (why should he, he just did what comes natural. How can he possibly have done anything wrong?)...gets mad at company for firing him for aparently no reason (after all, don't we all give in to our humanistic and instinctive--therefore obviously legitimate--desires?)...dude takes out his anger on the real "guilty" party. That's why. Lest we forget, we live in a society of victims where personal responsibility is a rare commodity as it is always someone else's fault and right and wrong is always relative depending on the situation--after all, who can really determine what is "right," anyway? The real tragedy is that if he hadn't killed himself and called one of those top-notch personal injury lawyers instead (you know the ones, "If you've been hurt in an accident, call..."), he could have owned that company after suing them for invading his right to privacy by checking out the child pornography that their employee loaded onto their computer.NEW WINDSOR, New York (AP) -- A fired employee walked into a nail polish factory Monday and shot the co-owners and a manager in the head before killing himself, police said.
All three of the people shot by Victor M. Piazza survived, although one was critically injured.
Piazza was fired from Verla International after being arrested in 2004 on charges he had child pornography on his company computer. He was sentenced to 10 years probation, police said.
"I'm sure that he was upset at management," said Police Chief Michael Biasotti. "We don't know why this occurred."
A darn shame.
You Knew It Was Coming...Didn't You?
Here's some intelligent commentary for you from the pen of Associated Press writer, Tom Raum:
Right, it has everything to do with the racial and economic status of the people affected by the two storms. Oh, and let's don't forget...they were all Democrats. Good plan, W (which we all know stands for "Whites only"). Get rid of 'em all and say the storm did it. Genius! Everyone knows if you were really compassionate you would have made sure as many people died in the second storm as did the in the first so no one in New Orleans (and those other two states...what were those again?) would get their feelings hurt.WASHINGTON - Whatever the reasons, residents of heavily Republican Texas seemed to get better treatment from the government during Hurricane Rita than the mostly black, poor and Democratic victims of Katrina in Louisiana. The issue of race is likely to linger in the aftermath of the two big storms.
Government mistakes in the first storm, including failure to provide a means of evacuation for tens of thousands of New Orleans residents stranded in flooding low-lying areas, exposed racial and social fault lines.
These divides may be reinforced, rather than diminished, by the government's far more robust response to Hurricane Rita.
Is this guy serious? Of course things were handled differently. What lunatic would think that these two storms would be handled the same way? I like to think we learn from our mistakes sometimes. As I recall, the governor of Louisiana and the mayor of New Orleans handled things differently, too. This is much ado about nothing except some far-left MSM "reporter" wanting to stir up an already aggitated hornets nest and get as much mileage out of this race angle as possible. It's just more of the same old, tired politics game. I really hope people aren't so naive that they can't see through this one. Perhaps I'm naive to suggest such a thing. Could someone please give this guy Jesse Jackson's phone number? I hear he needs a new press secretary. Never mind, I forgot Jackson's having tea at Sheehan's house, anyway.
If you really feel you must read the rest of this, the full story is here. For a little balance (and a great read, I must say), check out David Warren's article published in the Ottawa Citizen newspaper (Canada) on September 11, 2005.
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posted by DAVID C. PRICE at 9/27/2005 02:00:00 AM
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