This kind of rubbish coming to Ireland

Kernunos · 07-08-2008 11:34am #1

Well Northern Ireland anyway. Just read there abouta DUP politician trying to get Creationism taught in Northern schools either alongside or instead of Evolution Theory. He also wants the Giants Causeway to have signs that give a Biblical explanation for its formation.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2008/0807/1218047756470.html

dr.bollocko · 07-08-2008 11:36am

Oh for **** sake.
Right.
This is just not going to happen.
Even if I have to march for it.
Whatever it takes. Let them have their nonsense, but don't teach it like it's real!

Rev Hellfire · 07-08-2008 11:48am

Its not exactly new up there, considering where the DUP comes from and its connection with the Free Presbyterian church, its not something to be that surprised about.

MrPudding · 07-08-2008 11:50am

DUP idiot wrote:

The problem to date has been that we only have a narrow interpretation from an evolutionary point of view as to how these particular stones were formed

So the stones evolved?

MrP

Zombrex · 07-08-2008 12:15pm

Kernunos wrote: »

He also wants the Giants Causeway to have signs that give a Biblical explanation for its formation.

hahahahahahaha
hahahahahahaha
hahahahahahaha
hahahahahahaha

:pac::pac::pac::pac:

Point and laugh children, point and laugh

suckslikeafox · 07-08-2008 12:19pm

Wicknight wrote: »

Point and laugh children, point and laugh

Normally id agree with ya but people actually believe this crap

Zombrex · 07-08-2008 12:21pm

suckslikeafox wrote: »

Normally id agree with ya but people actually believe this crap

And we should point at them and laugh

Dades · 07-08-2008 12:52pm

Wicknight wrote: »

And we should point at them and laugh

Might I direct you to the Charter here.... oh forget it...

/ starts pointing >>

Zombrex · 07-08-2008 1:04pm

It is funny they mention the Giant's Causeway, because that is often used and an example of something that appears to be quite ordered and structured and designed but that has a perfectly natural non-intelligent explanation, once you find out what it is. This is used in parallel with evolution to show that just because we at one point have a hard time understanding how something structured can appear from nature doesn't mean it can't.

But obviously these people think it can't, despite a very sound scientific explanation.

I would love to see what competting theory they have,

hairyheretic · 07-08-2008 1:26pm

Wicknight wrote: »

I would love to see what competting theory they have,

Does it involve noodly appendages?

Galvasean · 07-08-2008 1:30pm

Wicknight wrote: »

But obviously these people think it can't, despite a very sound scientific explanation.

I would love to see what competting theory they have,

Well I visited the place as a kid. The legend goes it was built by giants.

Rev Hellfire · 07-08-2008 1:45pm

Wicknight wrote: »

I would love to see what competing theory they have,

I heard it involved two giants...

eoin5 · 07-08-2008 2:12pm

The DUP have lost all credibility, they just like to make a song and dance about everything now. Last week it was homophobia, I wonder whats up next week?

MrPudding · 07-08-2008 2:19pm

eoin5 wrote: »

The DUP have lost all credibility, they just like to make a song and dance about everything now. Last week it was homophobia, I wonder whats up next week?

To say that they have lost all credibility implies that they had some to start with... To us, as reasonable people they seem like idiots. To their followers they can do no wrong.

MrP

Dave! · 07-08-2008 2:32pm

What a disgusting moron that man is.

aidan24326 · 07-08-2008 2:38pm

Wicknight wrote: »

I would love to see what competting theory they have

I wouldn't be expecting much other than the usual 'god did it' answer.

AtomicHorror · 07-08-2008 3:52pm

Mervyn Storey wrote:

The problem to date has been that we only have a narrow interpretation from an evolutionary point of view as to how these particular stones were formed.

The theory of evolution has nothing to do with the formation of rocks.

Mervyn Storey wrote:

She tells us she's all for equality; surely if that is the case, you can't have one set of interpretations being taught at the expense of others.

If you assume all interpretations are actually equal then the curriculum is going to get very crowded.

Zombrex · 07-08-2008 3:55pm

AtomicHorror wrote: »

The theory of evolution has nothing to do with the formation of rocks.

Nor for that matter does the age of the Earth, or radiometeric dating, have anything to do with evolution.

Dades · 07-08-2008 4:08pm

Wicknight wrote: »

Nor for that matter does the age of the Earth, or radiometeric dating, have anything to do with evolution.

...until someone claims that the earth is less than 10,000 years old, thereby rendering evolution impossible.

Zombrex · 07-08-2008 5:35pm

Dades wrote: »

...until someone claims that the earth is less than 10,000 years old, thereby rendering evolution impossible.

Yes but it isn't evolutionists who claim the Earth is old. The Earth being old simply means that there is a time period that evolution could work, but evolution doesn't state the Earth is old.

Creationists in their rush to attack evolution seem to think everything they dislike stems from evolutionary science. In fact there are completely unrelated areas of science that contradict their literal interpretation of Genesis. They largely ignore this because to them evolution is the be all and end all.

toiletduck · 07-08-2008 6:08pm

I'm wagering "It was a dock for Noahs Ark" :pac:

Flamed Diving · 07-08-2008 6:23pm

A stairway to heaven?

Galvasean · 07-08-2008 9:53pm

toiletduck wrote: »

I'm wagering "It was a dock for Noahs Ark" :pac:

Goooood... :pac:

Flamed Diving wrote: »

A stairway to heaven?

Winner!

AtomicHorror wrote: »

If you assume all interpretations are actually equal then the curriculum is going to get very crowded.

I certainly can't wait until the Flat Earth Society, Holocost deniers and people who believe lizards rule the world come banging on the classroom door.

CCCP^ · 07-08-2008 9:55pm

Wait for the Rapture. That's when the party's going to happen, when all these assholes **** off. THEN IT'S OUR PLACE!!! YAAAARGH!

Galvasean · 07-08-2008 9:57pm

CCCP^ wrote: »

Wait for the Rapture. That's when the party's going to happen, when all these assholes **** off. THEN IT'S OUR PLACE!!! YAAAARGH!

The Rapture will be great. The believers get to go to heaven. We get to live in a world free from ID.

Dades · 07-08-2008 11:10pm

Galvasean wrote: »

The Rapture will be great. The believers get to go to heaven. We get to live in a world free from ID.

And the creationists get to live in one free from I.

Galvasean · 07-08-2008 11:13pm

Dades wrote: »

And the creationists get to live in one free from logic.

fixed.

robindch · 08-08-2008 1:26am

Galvasean wrote: »

The Rapture will be great. The believers get to go to heaven. We get to live in a world free from ID.

Sounds like Douglas Adam's Golgafrinchans all over again -- how could we convince fundamentalists that the rapture was nigh? A 500-foot tall inflatable Jesus on the White House lawn, smiting anybody who thinks he's not there?

Zillah · 08-08-2008 4:39am

I don't think something thats inflatable is capable of much smiting

Dades · 08-08-2008 9:40am

Zillah wrote: »

I don't think something thats inflatable is capable of much smiting

Oh, ye think so?

Dave! · 08-08-2008 9:42am

Hey has the Thanks option been removed from A&A?

I want to express my appreciation of Dades' above post but in the absense of a handy button, I can think of no alternative way to convey that sentiment

This kind of rubbish coming to Ireland

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