A Georgia state legislator, opposed to teaching evolution, wrote the following memo:

http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archiv...umPageTwo.html

The memo is about some Kabbala stuff being used -- well, read it. But note at the bottom he includes a link to "fixedearth.com". I've joked about Geocentrism being forced to be taught, but now it may not be so funny anymore.

-Richard

Oh, that's just scary. Yet so not surprising.

What's next? The Flat Earth Society gets involved?

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Boy that was a descent to the dark side.

now I have this in my head.
http://www.tsrocks.com/r/reba_mcenti...n_georgia.html

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Appropriate.
Who voted for that (insert favored Ad Hom Here)?
Turn the lights out on Him....

It appears that for some Georgians, the lights never were on.

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Not surprised this happened in GA.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068473/plotsummary

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To be expected, you know their out there. No expert on the law, but I don't see this as viable beyond making some noise. They would have to make connections that just aren't there.

If it does get thru, and somebody is deluded enough (or just wants to make said noise for noises sake) it will eventually get rebuked so strongly it will make the Judges findings in the Dover case look like kisses from their grandma.

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"Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

Yeesh. Darwin the Kabbalist? At least I hadn't heard it before; that's rare in these arguments.

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Gillian

"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

That's not the "red string" thing that Madonna's into, is it?

I agree, Gillian, his argument has the virtue of never having been tried at least.

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Old news, folks.

There was a story - quickly followed by an editorial - in the Houston Chronicle on this last week. Seems a Texas Leg, Warren Chisum, forwarded the memo to his colleagues. (There's a blog on this at the Chronicle's site.

In the Texas Rep's "defense", he hadn't read the entire memo or checked the Internet links.

In the Georgia Rep's "defense", he let someone else write the memo for him and he sent it out w/o reading it fully or checking the links.

In Darwin's defense, he was unfamiliar with anyone involved in this.

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I did like the bit about "the evolution monopoly in the schools". Dang evolution monopoly, its un-American. After that, we are getting rid of that dang algebra monopoly and their 2+2=4 indoctrination.

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Evolution Monopoly, huh? I call "Dibs" on the moth token, and I'd like to put hotels on Mutation Street and Natural Selection Avenue to complete that color.

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Hopes and dreams are shattering apart____With hope you can do your part
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Chance Card: Mass extinction. Go to Fossil Record. Go Directly to Fossil Record. Do not pass Evolve. Do not collect 200 strings of DNA.

And I'll take Hotels on Supervolcano, Climate Change, and Asteroid Strike.

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This made me laugh.

Maybe we, of the BAUT, can make up an "Evolution Monopoly"?

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Creationists make it sound as though a "theory" is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. -- Isaac Asimov

Sorry, no hotels allowed on utilities. But, if you own all four, you get paid extra when someone lands on one.

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Ah I see, they're just mad because the "Result of inbreeding" "failed mutations" and "species without teeth" are all named "Georgia Ave".

(just a joke, I actually like Georgia...good fishing there).

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"A long time ago, yet somehow in the future"

If there is any place that should appreciate the power of genetics, and it's role heridity and mutation; it should be in that area. I remember sitting in on a piece of field study by one of my Geography professors. He had done some sort of qualitative study in a region of the Blue Mountains. There were some really interesting tidbits on how remote and exclusive some of those ridge and valley areas are, but most amusing was this one picture of about 8 or 10 women. We assumed it was a picute of the female side of a large family. Turns out they were just a random gathering of women in one of the little isolated hamlets. We were told that some were related, but none closer than 1st cousins. They were all as similar as the usual pictures you see of identical twins.

Not a lot of mixing going on there.

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"Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience." -- Aldous Huxley

Is this for real? It looks like a joke.

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It's for real.

http://www.ajc.com/blogs/content/sha...olution_m.html

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"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right." -- Thomas Paine

Being intelligent is not a felony. But most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor. -- Heinlein

Creationists make it sound as though a "theory" is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. -- Isaac Asimov