What can free-thinking people do to fight back against this frightening rise of creationism in the USA?
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Nothing. It's something you can't understand unless you believe. I can't understand how people believe but I have to accept that they do. Trying to control what christians believe and endeavouring to get them to change their minds about evolution is making yourself just as bad the people who preach that you're sinner and going to burn in hell and that you were made out of clay in the form of an intangible being.\nLet is fly. Freedom of thought, freedom of expression. If you're for it youcan't control it. xxx
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I agree its unthinkable.  \n\nI think most Americans will be abhorred at the thought.\n\nIf it happens, it will be motivated by ignorance of what free speech means.  And that will be the front.\n\nThe real battle would look kind of like the first:  State's Rights.
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How can I stop squinting with anger when my evil schemes are made public to Americans?
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You have a group of people who've grown up being taught that the USA is evil, and that by fighting it they get a free ticket to Heaven.  We then go right into the middle of their world to start a fight.  It is not something that will end in a matter of months.  \nNot defending or condemning the decision to go, but we have to understand that now that we are there, it may be a while before things calm down
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How about Darwinism vs Creationism taught in schools, or stem cell research, or legalizing illegal immigrants who have been here for over 25 years? All of these issues are currently not answerable for lawyers and there is not a law that is consistant in all 50 states for any of them.
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Educate their children.  \n\nWe're doing that now, and it's only a matter of time.  I quite honestly see the end of religion within the next 100 years.\n\nRichard Dawkins was saying something similar just the other day.  I think it was in the Washington Post.  He is of the opinion that the majority of educated people in the US, even those that attend church, are really atheist/agnostic.  They just don't put much thought into it, and/or don't want to admit it, due to the social stigma surrounding it.\n\nI think that's entirely plausible.  But regardless, as our children recieve better education, and the generations continue to grow intellectually, eventually, people will simply be too embarrassed to continue to believe in a god.
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(tsk, tsk..Linda...) Ahem, compared to people today, pretty much the majority of the founders of this great country, and its greatest universities (all the Ivy League schools started out as Schools of Divinity...more or less), were hard-core christians...so you could could end up founding a great country, and perhaps a great university...Your path of destruction will only provide you with your current level of amusement for a short time longer...and...if you summon demons, fallen angels, then you should be aware that there is a higher being that created them...and I guarantee you there is one... you just need to think things through a little bit more is all....maybe you'll get lucky and life will show you some lessons....life is much too comfortable today...people begin to lack reasons to call on God...but I think that's due for a change...
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I can't give you every single person who supports/opposes it. Here are some names (all contemporary, and only those I could think of off the top of my head), though [note: I define "opposers" as those who have specifically spoken out against creationism; I also define creationism as the literal intervention of god, that is to say, nothing could happen without a god there to make it happen, which is different than theistic evolution):\n\nSupporters:\nKent Hovind\nKen Ham\nHugh Ross\nRay Comfort\nWilliam Dembski\nMichael Behe\n\nOpposers:\nRichard Dawkins\nCarl Sagan\nPZ Myers\nEd Brayton\nMassimo Pigliucci\nCarl Zimmer\nJudge John Jones\nKen Miller\nStephen Jay Gould\nJack Horner\n\nPlease note that the number of people accepting of a position does not necessarily mean that position is correct. Also note that each of those mentioned in the opposition list are actual biologists, whereas those mentioned in the supporters list are preachers. Majority may not count, but schooling does.
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Stem cell research is being thwarted by Christian fundamentalists who have too much say in politics right now. Contact your congressmen and support stem cell research!
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See newt gingrich's comment about restricting free speech, kinda says it all. I say any attempt to limit free speech or any other attacks on our constitution should be dealt with by revolution!
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Ha! Logic, reasoning, science and critical thinking skills are tools of the devil to lure the weak-minded! Blind faith is the only intelligent solution! Besides, I know what God is like because he is described in a book written thousands of years ago, and he has spoken to me, and has ordered me to molest children and do a strip tease before his majesty.
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It's more complex than this, but your general direction is right. The analogy works best if you say "Bible in one hand, yet world leaders in pornography and drug dealing on the other", or "purveyors of democracy and independence on the one hand, but can't/won't count votes in Florida on the other".\n\nWhichever way you look at it, any country ruled by a President who thinks that the cause of science is best served by allowing "intelligent design" to be taught in school classrooms, has got to cause negative attitudes about the USA to forment across the world...and this is exactly what is happening.
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I believe creationists are definately evidence of de-evolution, but there's no way to stop this process because in becoming intelligent we have decided that to let people die and to be so competitive as to allow some to suffer is socially unacceptable..... hence, welfare and people living on life support. It's a catch 22.... allow the weakest to die off and progress... save them and evolve socially and we keep the crack baby population in the gene pool.... we can't win! Although there's no evidence that people who believe in creation couldn't survive in an Atheist world so who knows.... it'd be a great experiment though ;)
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Well, the US cannot do it alone. It is incumbent upon people all over the world to put their religions behind them, relegate these silly myths to history books, and embrace reason as a path to a better future.\n\nReligious people look at the world through a very cloudy lens that they call "faith." Their need to impose these chains on others is at the root of most of the world's suffering, and behind almost every war.\n\nThe fact that people will accept things without evidence just because some ancient book tells them to is insane. We need to put these books away.\n\nWe could see the end of war and a great reduction in suffering in our lives if we would only embrace reason and become reasonable people.
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My friends in Europe find it outrageous that America would even consider banning evolution from the classroom or teaching creationism along side it.  As far as I know, very few Europeans believe in creationism and reject evolution.  And I'm fairly sure the phenonomon of asking it be taught as science is uniquely American, and is aptly called a psychosis.\n\nshiba: I didn't say anything about the government banning the teaching of evolution (although many states have made frightening leaps in that direction).  However, many creationists do advocate it (spend a few minutes looking around this site if you don't believe me), and the government is taking them seriously enough to pass laws mandating that students be told things like "evolution is a theory, not a fact," and "there are many gaps in the theory of evolution."\n\nWhen you ask that creationism be taught along side evolution you're not asking for equal rights you're asking that Christianity be given more voice than other religions.  Creationism is based in religion.  Evolution is a part of science.  Science is not a religion.  Religion is not taught in public schools.  Teaching creationism in schools infringes on my right not to be Christian (unless, of course, you're prepared to mandate the teaching of Muslim, Buddist, Hindu, Wiccan, and Satanist ideology as well).  Every relgion has its own creation story.  To teach only the Christian one is not giving Chrisitanity equality, it's giving it exclusive favoritism.\n\nThere is no reason under the sun why the Christian story of creation should be taught in a science classroom.  But if it were, you would have to teach EVERY story of creation.  There is no more evidence to support the Christian creation story than there is to support the theory that the universe was created by the Flying Spaghetti Monster.  And don't bother to quote the bible at me, that does not constitute scientific evidence.\n\nYou actually don't have the right to force every child in the country to listen to your religion in science class.  Sorry, but that's not a reasonable request.  You're not fighting for equality, you're fighting for government-sanctioned superiority.
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You really need to sit down and think. Read the news from around the world. Pay attention to the critics and stop to analyze them. It's not as exciting as hunting, but it will help ALOT.\n\nIt's more than one, but our presidency and country needs more than one simple solution...
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bullshyt wayz for the government to brainwash us