150 years since the Origin of Species...Follow

And the crazies are already out and about. Kirk Cameron, best known as Mike Seaver from Growing Pains, is spear-heading an effort to hand out 50,000 copies of "Origin of Species" at campuses around the country... with a 50 page introduction talking about:



When I started watching the video, I was convinced this was tongue-in-cheek for the first two minutes or so. Now I'm just shaking my head, thinking "Oh, crazy people..." I am curious to read the book's introduction, if they came to UF, just to see what the evidence they present is for creationism. Hopefully UF is large enough to get some folks handing out books!

I like how he calls atheism a "brainwashing."

Only 50,000 copies?

Slacker.

I wonder if I will see one of these distributors on my campus? We've had groups like 40daysforlife before.

You act as if the two are contradictory.

I did not make that assumption, but I'll continue with it.



In logic? Perhaps.

In practice? Rarely.

People conflate descriptive evolution with prescriptive evolution all of the time, and lots and lots of the people who I hear espouse social, prescriptive, evolution - that only the fittest should survive, rather than do survive - are either hardcore Christians, or hardcore nihilists. It's perfectly expected, if perhaps not (perhaps, I'm not sure I agree) that someone influenced by fascism, and that influence doesn't have to be overt, to be simultaneously "christian" and "darwinist." God may have designed me to just be ******* awesome and better than everyone, so it is my right to survive because I am fittest.

Now we can tell a story about how someone isn't really darwinist, because they don't understand all of the science and hands-off approach of observing, rather than actively working toward eugenic perfection, but we can tell the same story about how the same person doesn't really get what it means to be christian, because of a failure to understand the history of the religion. What I mean is that, it's a losing game to ask whether hitler was influenced more by christ or more by darwin. By no charitable appraisal of either will anyone think that they can devolve to such brutality.

In the reading of "I use x more than y" being similar to "I use x but not y." Precisely, in that x is significant but y is not at all. The statement itself carries not contradictory denotation, but connotes a sort of um... norm that, because of x, y isn't there.

That's just my reading allegory, and she's more than welcome to correct it.

I swear to God, you two could fuck up a 20-some with the Dallas Cheerleaders.

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And you'd be pretty much guaranteed not to observe any taint.

And I wouldn't want to observe it in the first place.



You've never heard a sentence like that be used to minimize the importance of something? It really doesn't matter until she replies, but I absolutely can use that form of sentence to infer a sort of inverse relationship.



Nor does most of the Christian doctrine that we see used to placate nations or to act as political tools, have to do anything with Christ or his theory of soteriology.

Unless you're actively looking for it.

Which was the point.

Then I don't know what the argument is about, because I have conceded that it is entirely possible that I am incorrect, or at least thought I did. Let me check.

Yep, I did.

Hitler breathed oxygen.

You ****.