What A Bunch Of Brats (Removing the flag)

[seer]

Creationism doesn't belong in the classroom.

You mean like "in the beginning God created the heavens and earth?"

[Leonhard]

You mean like "in the beginning God created the heavens and earth?"

No I mean as in Scientific Creationism and Intelligent Design. Neither of those belong in the biology class.

[seer]

No I mean as in Scientific Creationism and Intelligent Design. Neither of those belong in the biology class.

So you don't believe that God intelligently designed the evolutionary process? It was all by accident?

[Leonhard]

So you don't believe that God intelligently designed the evolutionary process? It was all by accident?

No I mean Scientific Creationism and Intelligent Design (which is a rebranding of Scientific Creationism) don't constitute science, and neither should be taught in the biology classroom.

[Bill the Cat]

Creationism doesn't belong in the classroom.

Sure it does. My daughter is taking a religion class in college, and it is being taught there as part of one of the world religions.

[Leonhard]

Sure it does. My daughter is taking a religion class in college, and it is being taught there as part of one of the world religions.

What I'm saying is that Scientific Creationism should not be taught in the biology class, the same goes for its rebranding: Intelligent Design.

[Bill the Cat]

What I'm saying is that Scientific Creationism should not be taught in the biology class, the same goes for its rebranding: Intelligent Design.

Sorry, I forgot the

[Leonhard]

Sorry, I forgot the

And my sarcasm detection kit is broken.

[Tassman]

Sure it does. My daughter is taking a religion class in college, and it is being taught there as part of one of the world religions.

Certainly 'Comparative Religion' needs to be taught...preferably in sociology classes. Any educated person needs to understand about the many religions that arose over the course of human history...especially as some of them are still with us.

[Tassman]

Granting your offhanded insult, yes. It's none of anyone else's business what I teach my children about irrelevant matters like what happened millions of years ago.

No it isn't.

Yes it is. Libertarian free-will is logically incoherent.

Exactly. CHOOSING. Which we are not hard wired to do. It is free.

Again, just another part of free will. Choosing an action and doing it.

Our subconscious has been informed to a large extent by how we've been socialised and inculcated with community values and a myriad other determining factors and it is this that influences us to make one decision rather than another decision.

No. It may INFLUENCE our choices, but it does not make them for us.

So how do you distinguish between your choices and the subconscious influence of a lifetime of experiences and social acculturation?

[Abu Njoroge]

I am a liberal. These morons dont realize to burn a flag is like slapping a veteran in the face. Love my country but fear my government.

[Leonhard]

I don't care who burns the danish flag, I got another one right here. But you won't get me to put it away. I wear the red and white colors on me every day, and if anyone doubts that they can come over here and take off my sweater.

A flag is what binds countrymen together. It's what you stand united under. Right AND LEFT. Conservative, liberal, rich, poor.

What kind of taste in your mouth do you have burning your own flag?

[demi-conservative]

*flag rant mode on*

As a dane I love my country's flag. You'd have to tear it from my cold dead hands.

We tend to be ambivalent when its burned. You wanna burn our flag, well go you. I have another one right here! What you won't get me to do is making put the flag away. I don't care if there's a psychopathic serial killer who murdered an entire kindergarten with our flag, I'll still celebrate my birthday with plenty of the red and white flags. It'll still go up on the flagpole (taken down after sunset, never allowed to touch the soil).

You mean you'll just do 'unconditional surrender' when push comes to shove.