Intelligent Design basically says that an intelligent designer (could be a god, could be many gods, aliens, ghosts, who knows?) has put together the world as we know it.

Creationism basically says that the God of the Bible Created everything we know of, out of nothing.

Evolution basically says that everything has changed over vast periods of time and suggests that there was a cosmic event ("The Big Bang") which started everything into motion.

So if a school board says they want to teach creationism, that is different from saying that they want to teach Intelligent Design.

Get your terms straight!

(The definition of terms are not quoted from any source, rather they are from my own simple understanding of each topic.)

Check out Steven C. Meyer in Focus on the Family's True U. He presents a very logical argument not only for creationism, but for the very existence of god.

I'm not sure what church you go to, but religion doesn't cure the rebellious human nature instilled in us by Adam's turning against God.

What?!! That is like saying we don't need the "Ten Commandments".

One reason I don't go to just ANY church. (newlifeinorlando.com)

This preacher doesn't just tell the congregation how to live, he tells the congregation how he lives.

For the record, I am not Southern Baptist, I am simply a sinful human who by God's grace and atonement am saved. This does not mean I am any less human or that I am flawless in any way. I am just the same if not worse than any of my fellow humans.

So, what you are saying is that, if they BELIEVE that a god Created everything we know of (Creationism) or if they BELIEVE that (Darwin's theory of) evolution, chance, and the big bang brought about everything we know of, that you are against it? So, no science in the classroom if the person teaching it believes what they are teaching?

That only applies to the US. In some countries if you see a girl on the street you want to have sex with and you ask and she agrees, it is legal for you to have sex with her, no matter what her age.

Americans and their "Christian values". That is why we are making regular normal people into criminals filling up our jails and causing our police forces to be so large. If the laws we have now were present in the time when Westerns were filmed, there would be a police force 10% of the population for each town rather than one Sheriff to keep the order (and the banks would still get robbed).

Setting an age limit for sexual relations is stupid, similar to the age limit with drinking, or smoking.

I think it is interesting how people think of CP as simply being a sexual act captured on a video or in pictures. That would be considered "hardcore" just as it is considered "hardcore" in the legal porn circles. Child Porn is essentially just any picture, video, drawing, or (in some cases) descriptive word, containing persons under the age of 18 in compromising situations, not necessarily sexual situations though. If the media is focusing on "private parts", or seductive imagery it can be called CP, but naked kids in a bathtub don't usually fit the criteria.

Child pornography is not necessarily child abuse. If it is "hardcore" it is, but when it is just suggestive imagery it is not.

Ever heard of Usenet, or darknet, or IRC Chat? I'm not real sure how things are presented in IRC Chat, or darknet, but I am quite familiar with Usenet. Which makes me wonder, why did the people in the article PAY for the CP which they downloaded? Are they just that ignorant that they know nothing about other "channels" for accessing their obsession? These are people who are high up in the "secret" organizations of the US and they don't know how to be secret about their dealings? Makes me fear for our country and its ability to actually have successful "secret" organizations.

Why would that be there only native environment if they have had millions of years to move to other parts of the world?

Haha, oh wait, thats not funny. If so, why only Africa though?

It just doesn't make any logical sense though. If there really are some sort of slightly evolved apes or monkeys or primates whatever you want to call them that were the previous edition of "modern day" humans, why aren't they still around? Why don't we find whole skeletons of these millions of years old humans/primates like we do the millions of years old other fossils? Why can't we teach ANY of the primates in the zoo to speak (not sign language either, out loud as most of us not at computers tend to communicate)?

I've seen the so called fossils, the skulls made out of fragments of bone, the pinky, toe, arm bones that someone thought would be the latest and greatest link. It just doesn't make logical sense. You complain about how the religious like to force feed you their doctrine and beliefs, but I am sick and tired of being fed the same nonsense coming from the "science" community about how we came from primates and how they are finding new evidence to prove their theories (oh, wait, I think they said it is fact, then why does it still need to be proved?) Stop looking for clues to bolster up your theory if it is fact!

Everyone has some sort of religion, whether it is something they visit weekly, or just something they think about and argue for on forums and in comments. Everyone has a religion. Not necessarily religion based on books, or gods, or something to worship, but something they base their beliefs and morals on, something that sets apart right and wrong for them, something that gives them a reason to live life and be a "good" person (or a "bad" person if they so choose). It may not have a name with an "ism" or "ity" at the end of it, but it is still something that the beliefs and morals are based on.

Funny how you say that religion is child abuse, I just find that funny.

Not world wide flood, world wide overflowing river. Get your facts straight. Oh wait, maybe it was a world wide tropical storm (wasn't there a movie about that?).

I semi-agree. I have a large library, that consists of CDs I have purchased and ripped into my collection, iTunes purchased songs and albums, songs and albums a friend of mine purchased on iTunes, items downloaded via P2P, and many many items downloaded via Usenet. My library is somewhere near 6 or 700 GB which comes to about 100,000 songs. I also DJ, and use my collection for this purpose, if I wasn't DJing I would probably reduce my collection to half of what it is. I want to make a shirt that says "Proud to be a Pirate!" Besides Music I also have quite a collection of pirated software, and PDFs, and "pictures", and movies. DVD rips of movies are awesome.

Wow, you teach Sunday School? What church is that? I hope the supervisors of the classes don't approve of your message. I'm not really sure how Biblical a teaching that is either.

When the iMac first came out I remember that big complaints were that it didn't have serial ports, or even a disc drive. It only had a CD drive. Yet it was still a big hit and brought on the evolution of USB greater than other computing platforms. It seemed as though Apple said that serial and SCSI ports were a thing of the past and moved on with USB and firewire connections. So, lacking USB ports doesn't bother me about the device.

Do we really want to be just like China, North Korea and Russia? Aren't they countries where freedom is suppressed if it even exists? I guess that shows you where our government officials want this nation to go, down the communist tubes...

I live in Orlando, Florida. Using a wifi tracker on my iPod I find that there are a bunch of networks in my neighborhood and most of them are locked. As I have traveled to other neighborhoods and even apartment complexes it often seems as though everyone has wifi and that they are all locked. As far as secure systems, I don't really know how secure our systems would be. Our house uses Macs and I have always assumed they were pretty safe, but I don't really know. I'm sure if someone REALLY wanted to hack or access our systems, it would be possible.