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	Comments on: Antievolution legislation in Tennessee	</title>
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		By: Brad Feaker		</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/14/antievolution-legislation-in-t/#comment-499224</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Feaker]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 23:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Greg,

Thanks for the heads up - I have already written my state congress critters asking them to vote this crap down.  Man - sometimes it is so embarrassing to admit I live in Tennessee. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Greg,</p>
<p>Thanks for the heads up &#8211; I have already written my state congress critters asking them to vote this crap down.  Man &#8211; sometimes it is so embarrassing to admit I live in Tennessee. </p>
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		By: Warren		</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/14/antievolution-legislation-in-t/#comment-499223</link>

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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Pilty @8:

&quot;See, it depends on who you ask as to wether evolution is real or not.&quot;

No. It doesn&#039;t.

2 + 2 = 4, regardless of whom you ask.

Gravity is a fact, regardless of whom you ask.

Evolution is real, regardless of whom you ask.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Pilty @8:</p>
<p>&#8220;See, it depends on who you ask as to wether evolution is real or not.&#8221;</p>
<p>No. It doesn&#8217;t.</p>
<p>2 + 2 = 4, regardless of whom you ask.</p>
<p>Gravity is a fact, regardless of whom you ask.</p>
<p>Evolution is real, regardless of whom you ask.</p>
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		By: Achrachno		</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Blithery: To Vince whirlwind: No flying insects have only four legs, but some do *walk* on four of their six. Absolutely every insect, by definition, has three pairs of limbs. Some hold the front pair up, and only walk on four. Mantids are an example. 

In fact there is at least one group of flying insects with only four legs.  Nymphalidae (a family of butterflies, incl. mourning cloaks, painted ladies, etc.) mostly or entirely have only 4 legs as adults.  Not 6, but only using 4 in this case.  Life is very diverse, and it seems there&#039;s always an exception to any rule.

I don&#039;t think this helps a thumper&#039;s case though, since the Leviticus passage goes on to imply that there are insects with feet above their legs, and that&#039;s hard to even imagine.  That the Bible is regularly wrong is apparent to anyone who&#039;s bothered to read it straight through, but very few believers ever have.  That&#039;s why we have Baptists.



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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Blithery: To Vince whirlwind: No flying insects have only four legs, but some do *walk* on four of their six. Absolutely every insect, by definition, has three pairs of limbs. Some hold the front pair up, and only walk on four. Mantids are an example. </p>
<p>In fact there is at least one group of flying insects with only four legs.  Nymphalidae (a family of butterflies, incl. mourning cloaks, painted ladies, etc.) mostly or entirely have only 4 legs as adults.  Not 6, but only using 4 in this case.  Life is very diverse, and it seems there&#8217;s always an exception to any rule.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t think this helps a thumper&#8217;s case though, since the Leviticus passage goes on to imply that there are insects with feet above their legs, and that&#8217;s hard to even imagine.  That the Bible is regularly wrong is apparent to anyone who&#8217;s bothered to read it straight through, but very few believers ever have.  That&#8217;s why we have Baptists.</p>
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		By: MacTurk		</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/14/antievolution-legislation-in-t/#comment-499221</link>

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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Oh good Dog! And these people get to vote too?  I think there is a problem with the theory of democracy....

I would like to &quot;congradualte&quot; Piltdown Man on his consistency(the true virtue of the mediocre) in his spelling, his lack of logic and his use of Conservapedia.  If not a real Poe, he has definitely got the mindset down pat. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh good Dog! And these people get to vote too?  I think there is a problem with the theory of democracy&#8230;.</p>
<p>I would like to &#8220;congradualte&#8221; Piltdown Man on his consistency(the true virtue of the mediocre) in his spelling, his lack of logic and his use of Conservapedia.  If not a real Poe, he has definitely got the mindset down pat. </p>
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		By: Lynn Wilhelm		</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/14/antievolution-legislation-in-t/#comment-499220</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lynn Wilhelm]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wow, the nuts really came out of the woodwork on this one.
A fun morning read today.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow, the nuts really came out of the woodwork on this one.<br />
A fun morning read today.</p>
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		By: Larry Lipit0r		</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/14/antievolution-legislation-in-t/#comment-499219</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Larry Lipit0r]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I just figured out who Pilty is...... it&#039;s Bill O&#039;Reilly of &quot;the tide comes in and the tide goes out; never a miscommunication&quot; fame.

Seriously, if Pilty isn&#039;t poe, then we have a truly deranged fool among us.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just figured out who Pilty is&#8230;&#8230; it&#8217;s Bill O&#8217;Reilly of &#8220;the tide comes in and the tide goes out; never a miscommunication&#8221; fame.</p>
<p>Seriously, if Pilty isn&#8217;t poe, then we have a truly deranged fool among us.</p>
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		By: Dan J		</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/14/antievolution-legislation-in-t/#comment-499218</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan J]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Simply amazing. I have no doubts as to the reason the US is falling further and further behind the majority of the world in science education.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Simply amazing. I have no doubts as to the reason the US is falling further and further behind the majority of the world in science education.</p>
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		By: Wow		</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/14/antievolution-legislation-in-t/#comment-499217</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Wow]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Blitherypoop, and bats are birds?

What ever happened to the Giants living in the land of Nod, by the way? Ethnic cleansing?

PS bit of inbreeding after Noah (heck, even if you have to ignore Cain and Abel getting dirty with their sisters, or Lot doing it to his daughters, all sinful).

PPS I hope no Christian wears a polycotton mix because mixed fibers are an abomination.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Blitherypoop, and bats are birds?</p>
<p>What ever happened to the Giants living in the land of Nod, by the way? Ethnic cleansing?</p>
<p>PS bit of inbreeding after Noah (heck, even if you have to ignore Cain and Abel getting dirty with their sisters, or Lot doing it to his daughters, all sinful).</p>
<p>PPS I hope no Christian wears a polycotton mix because mixed fibers are an abomination.</p>
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		By: Wow		</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/14/antievolution-legislation-in-t/#comment-499216</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Wow]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&quot;We should teach it as a theory because it hasn&#039;t been proven that &quot;evolution&quot; as we know it has occured.&quot;

So we should teach the creation of the universe (or the world, or man or...) as a theory because it hasn&#039;t been proven to occur?

Shall we teach that the sun coming up tomorrow is a theory because nobody has EVER seen the sun come up tomorrow? (they&#039;ve only gotten as close as &quot;this morning&quot; which is in the past)

Nobody has EVER seen the inside of a solid brick, so is that a theory too?

Nobody&#039;s EVER seen a bullet shot from a gun entering people, so gunshot wounds are theory?

And I don&#039;t know ANYONE who&#039;s seen even a few million people, so the population of the planet is a THEORY?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;We should teach it as a theory because it hasn&#8217;t been proven that &#8220;evolution&#8221; as we know it has occured.&#8221;</p>
<p>So we should teach the creation of the universe (or the world, or man or&#8230;) as a theory because it hasn&#8217;t been proven to occur?</p>
<p>Shall we teach that the sun coming up tomorrow is a theory because nobody has EVER seen the sun come up tomorrow? (they&#8217;ve only gotten as close as &#8220;this morning&#8221; which is in the past)</p>
<p>Nobody has EVER seen the inside of a solid brick, so is that a theory too?</p>
<p>Nobody&#8217;s EVER seen a bullet shot from a gun entering people, so gunshot wounds are theory?</p>
<p>And I don&#8217;t know ANYONE who&#8217;s seen even a few million people, so the population of the planet is a THEORY?</p>
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		By: Phillip IV		</title>
		<link>https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/02/14/antievolution-legislation-in-t/#comment-499215</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phillip IV]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 12:22:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Rod @ #9:

&lt;blockquote&gt;Please describe the Theory of Christianity? It&#039;s only a theory, right? It isn&#039;t proven, there aren&#039;t any transitional forms, where are the fossils?&lt;/blockquote&gt;

You want fossils? Attend the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting, and you&#039;ll meet enough Christian fossils in five minutes to last you for the rest of your life. ;)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rod @ #9:</p>
<blockquote><p>Please describe the Theory of Christianity? It&#8217;s only a theory, right? It isn&#8217;t proven, there aren&#8217;t any transitional forms, where are the fossils?</p></blockquote>
<p>You want fossils? Attend the Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting, and you&#8217;ll meet enough Christian fossils in five minutes to last you for the rest of your life. 😉</p>
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