“anti-health care crowd”? Do you mean people who care about anti-health? (Whatever that is.)
“anti-health care crowd”? Do you mean people who are against health care? Apart from a very few people who reject modern healthcare (it’s one word, like “dumbass”) for religious reasons, who is this “crowd” you speak of?
“anti-health care crowd”? Or do you mean people who are opposed to the current attempt at health insurance reform being pushed by Democrats? Are you aware that they aren’t actually trying to reform healthcare, but rather who pays for it and how?
Since you can’t clearly articulate what it is you’re afraid of, but take the opportunity anyway to sling insults at those who disagree with you, I posit it’s you who’s screaming like a frightened child.
I’m sorry, I didn’t realize you were that stupid. I’ll try again with small words that your knobby little mind can gum into the tasty pap of understanding.
I’m referring to the people against the current health care reform going through congress. If you care to actually discuss it, why don’t we pop over to another thread?
Yes, and it provides an all-purpose excuse for hijacking any thread at any time–The side I don’t agree with on Issue A is stupid, just like the side I don’t agree with on Issue B. This makes a message board very tiresome, very quickly.
Except that there’s an actual equivalency to the whole thing:
Health Care Reform Opponents - Go the Town Hall meetings and disrupt things.
ID Proponents From This Classroom - Go to message boards and disrupt things.
It was the first thing I thought of too, seeing as the two situations are so similar. If he hadn’t said it, you be freaking out at me right now.
Maybe I’m reading it wrong. It says “(3) provide at least 10 posts defending ID that you’ve made on “hostile” websites”. I took that to mean that they’re defending a particular point against some counter argument. I guess that’s not necessarily the case, but if I were the teacher that’s what I’d expect. In which case I would consider it a great learning experience. But even assuming that’s not the case. These kids will get exposed to more counter arguments than they’d probably get in class.
Wait, just thought of a big downside. If they came and quickly posted here and they ran away after one response from Der Trihs. That’d be enough to turn them into YECs. :eek:
If you were the teacher you’d be a much better one than Dembski.
How likely is there going to be an ID thread on a hostile website - without an IDer starting it? It is not like we are spending a lot of threads trying to think up clever refutations to ID, which would be defended by the brave dope. I’d suspect that the student would start a thread, saying ID is correct because - and then dump the standard crap. That would seem to meet the requirements. It would be nice if the poster stuck around to really defend ID, but he or she would no doubt get their asses handed to them, and probably wouldn’t want Dembski seeing it. After all, that is what usually happens in GD ID threads.
I know it is against the rules to start a board war, but I wonder if it is against the rules to invite the students to try their hand here? Then we’ll know for sure what’s what.
For godsakes, again – NOT ALL CHRISTIAN DENOMINATIONS TEACH CREATIONISM!!! Gah! Dude, are you aware that the guy who came up with the Big Bang theory was a Catholic priest?
Dammit! I was looking forward to September, when the students generally have better things to do than troll this board. Now September will be June all over again. :mad:
True. And the guy who first figured out that descent is provided by genes was a Catholic priest. And the guy who married Mendelian genetics to (the as of that point, unidentified mechanism for) Darwin’s Descent with Modification was a devout Orthodox Christian.
I knew a number of guys who went to the seminary who studied biology, chemistry, and physics. (I suspect that they only had a single intro course, each, but the classes were there. Of course, they were Catholic and Lutheran seminaries and not associated with Dembski’s outfit.)
I know that, but why is any science relevant to training for religious ministry? I mean, I wouldn’t expect a business school to have an anatomy department.
However, priests and ministers generally receive liberal arts degrees that require some minimum amount of science in the curriculum if they wish to be accredited. I would be surprised to discover that a business school offering a bachelor degree had no science classes, (although I would be equally surprised if they offered anything as specific as anatomy or organic chemistry).
I must have had the wrong idea about seminaries. I thought it was a specialized professional-graduate program like med school or law school – not like, say, West Point or Annapolis, where you get a complete college education with emphasis on military training.