There IS a problem with addressing a specific theory as if it is truth, or controversy. One may teach Greek creation stories of Atlas holding the world on his shoulders in the "people once believed that.." category.

The category of "perhaps this is an alternative to scientific evolution theories" is entirely different and almost completely unjustifiable, in my opinion.

Almost thirty percent of the world are Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist and other traditional Asian religions. Almost 10% fit in a smattering of others (traditional tribal, Sikhism, Jainism, etc).

I'm not sure, but perhaps that dictates the teaching (in the same light) of the Vishnu, Brahma creation story. It might be worth referencing the Buddhist doctrine that pondering the creation of Universe is a bit contrary to Buddhist ideals. Or perhaps the giant Tortoise creation myth that is very common in geographically diverse tribal religions.

To be fair, 20 years ago, I learned about many of these in Social Studies class. I don't think there's any controversy teaching that.

It's the migration of these theories into science class, when there is relatively no scientific merit to them, that is vexing.

We have just as much scientific evidence of Noah's flood or Adam and Eve's garden as we do of Vishnu growing a giant flower from his navel, from which a many-headed deity was hatched.

*shrug*

Glen Beck approves of your Hitler reference. :-)

Well, actually, while the number of seafood restaurants will decline, the remaining ones will be able to charge a MUCH higher price.

After all, there are sustainable farming operations for ALMOST all types of fish, but the quantities are limited. The few that can't be farmed may never be widely available again (whale, crab, and a few others come to mind).

Wow, srsly?

I won't say anything other than... CITATION PLEASE.

I personally have reduced my use of gasoline by almost 4 times from that of the lifestyle my parents lead by making choices in my own life. I use about 1/8 the electricity of my parents. It's really not hard, if you give a fuck about anyone other than yourself.

I'm planning to spend a year on the ocean, living on a small yacht "off the grid", a life based exclusively on wind and solar power in a few years. What have you done to improve the life of your progeny? (and I'm talking about 10 generations from now, which rules out spewing spittle while pointing at the size of your 401K).

Do you realize the level of the absolute asshattery (or perhaps ignorance) that you have demonstrated with the "YOU GUYS ARE STUPID POOPYHEADS" tone of this comment?

Lay off the Limbaugh crack, it'll make you smarter and generate more salient debates, rather than regurgitated internet flamebait.

But those are two facts.... simply strung together.

Is it a mantra to repeat two facts? hmmm...

Hah. Because in the 3rd world, American trash gets dumped right in your backyard, rather than down in Texas where nobody gives a shit. :-)

You just made me spit my tea all over my keyboard.

Sheesh, have some restraint :-P

ahhhhh ROFL

Bullshit.

I have a co-worker who constantly pulls the "dude, RTFM" on everyone like he knows the answer. But when you pin him to the wall, frankly, he constantly doesn't.

He frequently chortles when someone asks a question "dude, didn't you learn this in 4th grade?" but he then gets the same thing wrong the next time he has to do it because he can't ask the same question (having teased someone for asking it before).

Knowing a lot is very different from being a jackass, which is what is implied in the GP's answer.

Asking credible questions incorporating the previous steps you attempted to answer your own question gains you a lot of support and will make you a wiser person in the long run.

Simply being a turd and thinking you already "know it all" just impresses people who don't know any better. Those who do know just roll their eyes and quietly check you off in their head as a know it all turd.

Yeah, but if "janitor steve" gets a virus, the IT department is liable and responsible to fix it and probably has the means to identify the virus and/or re-image the machine.

When your home machine craters and takes a few dozen other VPN nodes with it, they have to just sigh and say "damn users".

I worked in an office a number of years ago when the Nimda virus was floating around. We managed to keep it completely off the network for 3 days, but someone connected to an old archaic dialup system that was still active (and not firewalled) and infected the whole damn place, and I spent the next 80 hours not sleeping, trying to keep the business from going under because they had over 1000 computers that were totally useless bricks.

So... I gotta say that i see both sides.

That's an interesting point. The -istan countries were bent over and raped by Mother Russia.

This is a bit akin to saying.

"I have proof God doesn't exist. See, his priests are assholes! That proves it!"

While you might be right about Al Gore, it doesn't make the initial claim any less probable.

ROFL.

Leviticus has like 500 commandments to stone people.

Leviticus 20:27

"'A man or woman who is a medium or spiritist among you must be put to death. You are to stone them;"

Oye.

I think that's supposed to read

"are supposed to turn the other cheek"

The christianists in the bible belt haven't followed Jeebus for a long ass time.