1. Trailer for Religulous

Comment #191382 by rodentfuel on June 10, 2008 at 6:58 pm

This movie looks really cool! Bill's a trip.

Is there a release date yet?

I agree that the producers of this movie should invite Ben Stein. Then maybe buy Ben some new shoes as a bribe to get him to stay and actually learn something about religion - it's ridiculous!

Stein on shoe addiction…
http://web.archive.org/web/20031011032027/www.eonline.com/Gossip/Morton/Archive/2003/030917.html

2. Animal Science Without Evolution

Comment #184821 by rodentfuel on May 26, 2008 at 8:54 am

As a second, third and fourth grader I went to a fundamenalist ACE school. I don't recall doing any of the science PACE's, but I did hear this anti-science propaganda growing up. Here's a description of one ACE science packet.

"The ACE science packet (1986) used in private Christian schools says that Darwin is an important figure in science but that his theory of evolution is wrong:


- The Bible is completely against any such theory. Evolution claims that man arose through a series of random changes. The theory leaves no room for man's responsibility or man's sin. If evolution were true, no man would be born a sinner because Adam would never have fallen and committed the original sin of disobedience to God. If evolution were true, Christ would not have needed to die for our sin."

Who can argue with that? Evolution is wrong because Adam would never had fallen and committed the original sin. Wow! I never thought of that.

What a disgrace! The level of dishonesty in these home school science rags is sickening. The adults who write this stuff or push this stuff on kids know better... or least they should know better. No wonder I was behind in math and science when I finally got back to the public school system in 5th grade.

3. These dim-wits believe in anything but God

Comment #181636 by rodentfuel on May 17, 2008 at 6:39 pm

Mr. Pitcher proclaims "the enemy of pluralism is not religious education, but secular fundamentalists." What the !?!

I know what secular is and I know what fundamentalism is, but what the heck is secular fundamentalism?

Okay whatever... sign me up... I'm a secular fundamentalist. But it sounds like some sort of absurd name calling exercise.

Mr. Pitcher again with the strange rhetoric, "I would have embraced Satan in order to give up physics at school;"

These folks are always grouping us with SATAN. That really irks me. First of all I don't believe in Satan. Secondly even if this estranged deity did exist... we would have little in common (except a love of heavy metal music and a thing for warmer climates).

I think the real "dim wit" here is the author of this article.

For more on secular fundamentalism try this link
http://atheism.about.com/od/secularismseparation/p/SecularFundies.htm

4. A New Jack Chick Tract: Moving On Up!

Comment #175043 by rodentfuel on May 4, 2008 at 9:02 am

The lake of fire! Noooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's the same stupid story every time, isn't it?

5. Mount Vernon schools to hire investigator in Bible case

Comment #169558 by rodentfuel on April 26, 2008 at 9:47 am

I'm from Ohio... so this kinda thing is not very shocking (given that we are an hour away from the Creation Museum). Well the cross thing is shocking...

Interesting note on this topic - Mr. Freshwater (no Tiktaalik in his family tree) was told to stop handing out anti-evolution materials back in 2006. Ohio teaching standards actually do not allow this type of thing.

Here's the letter to Mr. Freshwater from the school board.

http://www.dispatch.com/wwwexportcontent/sites/dispatch/local_news/stories/2008/04/22/2006_complaint.pdf