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Georgia considers banning 'evolution'

Couldn't we just ban conservative non-scientific Georgians instead?

As messy as our public education system is in this nation, these nutballs do in fact have unopposed control of a lot of the private educational institutions. I suppose we should just let the creationist have their way and not teach their children anything about evolution or biology or science, and let the Darwinian principle leave them (and the rest of the nation) in rural ignorance while the Indians, Japanese, and other countries actually have highly educated scientists instead of willfully ignorant pseudo-scientists.

Ass hats.

For the record, I'm all for teaching religious doctrine as part of a well-rounded education, but I mean a balanced comparative world-wide religion course covering more than "what flavor of Baptist or Presbyterian are you?". Keep any (even veiled) reference to the Bible the hell out of the science courses and put issues of faith within their proper context, which is nowhere to be found in a Petri dish without a lot more discussion and background.

Evolution is not an unproved theory, it is a fact just as much as Newton's laws of classical physics or Einstein's theory of relativity is a fact supported by an immense amount of experiment, documentation, research, independent verification, and does not require (or exclude) any 'magic goes here' appeals. It should be called the "Law of Evolution" not the "Theory of Evolution".

Creationism is a religious world-view, not a scientific principle, which seems predicated on the idea that the physical evidence was designed specifically to lie to us. The concept that any evidence you find can be discounted as 'the work of Satan' violates the entire point of the Scientific Method.


Stupid ass hats.

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The 101 Dumbest Moments in Business (2004 edition)

(7) In August, online "social planning destination" Evite sends an apology to its users for having cited Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement, as a "reason to party" in an earlier e-mail newsletter.

(15) In February, Seattle-based software firm Spam Arrest starts spamming people who correspond with current customers. The come-on? "Enjoy a spam-free inbox."

(17) Just three days before Martha Stewart and her stockbroker, Peter Bacanovic, are indicted for obstruction of justice, making false statements, conspiracy, and other charges, German researchers release a study showing that Erbitux—the ImClone drug that started the questionable-stock-trading foofaraw in the first place—does, in fact, reduce tumors.

(20) After years of bombarding Web surfers with annoying pop-up ads, wireless camera maker X10 files for bankruptcy in October, listing debts of more than $10 million. Among the parties stiffed: AOL, Google, Yahoo, and AdvertisementBanners.com, which won $4 million in a lawsuit against X10 shortly before the bankruptcy filing.

(32) British utility Yorkshire Water sparks an anthrax panic in the spring with a mass mailing that includes an unmarked envelope of white crystalline grains. Yorkshire Water explains that the packets of silica sand—which expands in water—are supposed to be placed in toilet tanks as part of its "Save-a-Flush" campaign.

(75) In April, Kraft rolls out an ad campaign to promote its new presliced, cracker-size cheese. The slogan: "We cut the cheese so you don't have to."

(77) Finally closing the books on a 16-year-old lawsuit, an Asheville, N.C., court rules in favor of 165,000 people who paid $1,000 apiece to Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's Praise the Lord ministry for stays at a resort that was never built. Lawyers receive $2.5 million for litigating the case; plaintiffs end up with $6.54 each.

(82) "We won't win any popularity contests. We don't really care what people think."—Recording Industry Association of America spokeswoman Amy Weiss, on the group's decision to file lawsuits against customers accused of Internet file sharing, including a 12-year-old New York girl and a 65-year-old Massachusetts grandmother. U.S. record sales remain stagnant after the RIAA launches its campaign in the courts, and an appeals court bans the RIAA's legal methods in December.