Comments on: What to do with Bible thumping students https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/12/what-to-do-with-bible-thumping/ Tue, 01 Jan 2013 16:08:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Jim Brock https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/12/what-to-do-with-bible-thumping/#comment-541778 Tue, 01 Jan 2013 16:08:08 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/12/what-to-do-with-bible-thumping/#comment-541778 It is a shame that so many young minds are closed to the mysteries of science. If only they would listen and THINK about it. Or even do some research on how the Bible came to be. What do they think of the Dead Sea scrolls? Nag Madi (?) Coptic writings? The Apocrypha? So many of these committed believers have no idea where their ideas come from. The Bible does present some useful lessons of personal behavior, but no useful insights for science.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/12/what-to-do-with-bible-thumping/#comment-541777 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:34:06 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/12/what-to-do-with-bible-thumping/#comment-541777 Re creationist students and trolls – do they not go away if you ignore them?

No. They eventually get elected to the school board if you ignore them!

]]> By: yogi-one https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/12/what-to-do-with-bible-thumping/#comment-541776 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 09:57:58 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/12/what-to-do-with-bible-thumping/#comment-541776 Greg doesn’t hose the trolls here because they prove his point so elegantly.

]]> By: Scotlyn https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/12/what-to-do-with-bible-thumping/#comment-541775 Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:33:46 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/12/what-to-do-with-bible-thumping/#comment-541775 Greg, I’ve just discovered your blog – very good post here, as are so many of your other ones. I hope this is somewhat on topic – not about teaching, but about Life and the Laws of Thermodynamics. I absolutely loved the way the authors of this article dealt with the issue in their advocacy of a “metabolism first” abiogenesis theory.

In their view, life may have started with a process that very conveniently provided a “downhill” entropy ride for the highly energetic electrons that were so abundant just after the formation of the early solar system. This process may have produced, as a side-effect, the variability, heritability and differential fitness features that allowed natural selection to begin working, with life as an emergent resulting complexity. I’d be interested in your views.

Re creationist students and trolls – do they not go away if you ignore them?

]]> By: DuWayne https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/12/what-to-do-with-bible-thumping/#comment-541774 Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:22:20 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/12/what-to-do-with-bible-thumping/#comment-541774 Oh PLEASE!!! Lecture us NOW about them natural remedies!!!

While you’re at it, you could explain to us exactly how 5-HTP interacts with the brain, as apposed to, hmmm, the Welbutrin I am taking these days. And please explain how 5-HTP would help someone who is schizophrenic, or someone like me, who is bipolar.

Inquiring minds that have probably spent exponentially more time learning about these natural remedies than you have, would love to hear what you have to say on the topic. Just be sure that you give us clear and concise explanations for how each of these remedies actually works with the human body and cite the evidence for their efficacy.

]]> By: Dan J https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/12/what-to-do-with-bible-thumping/#comment-541773 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:32:10 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/12/what-to-do-with-bible-thumping/#comment-541773 Is it just me, or does ED seem to be more off his meds than usual lately? They do still make Thorazine, don’t they?

]]> By: DuWayne https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/12/what-to-do-with-bible-thumping/#comment-541772 Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:26:32 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/12/what-to-do-with-bible-thumping/#comment-541772 Who’s party? I don’t have one, nor have I voted more than two or three times for a republicrat in my entire life and then only in local elections.

But again ED, you are nothing but a sick little parody – albeit one that would be funny, if it weren’t fairly clear you probably believe the crap you spew…

]]> By: DuWayne https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/12/what-to-do-with-bible-thumping/#comment-541771 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:44:42 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/12/what-to-do-with-bible-thumping/#comment-541771 ED –

You are a parody unto yourself. Seriously, we have had a remarkable amount of redistribution for decades upon decades now and while we still have to constantly strive to keep the loons from stealing our civil liberties. Note, such loons are not relegated to one side or another of some socialist paradigm. Rather they are everywhere, in virtually every political/economic paradigm, including extreme libertarianism.

So please, spare us your juvenile rantings (unless they include dick and fart jokes) that aren’t even worthy of a highschool student…

]]> By: DuWayne https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/12/what-to-do-with-bible-thumping/#comment-541770 Sun, 16 Aug 2009 12:32:45 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/12/what-to-do-with-bible-thumping/#comment-541770 I do not want your countr either.

You know, I am not for telling anyone to love it or leave it, but given you don’t want our country, you are welcome to fuck off.

]]> By: Stephanie Z https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/12/what-to-do-with-bible-thumping/#comment-541769 Sun, 16 Aug 2009 11:53:32 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/12/what-to-do-with-bible-thumping/#comment-541769 ED, given a choice, I would absolutely give you the freedom you think you want. Of course, I wouldn’t make you keep it for more than a couple of days. That would be cruel.

Read: http://tuibguy.com/?p=1414

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