The Loch Ness Monster and Creationism

Excepty for Global Warming is real, Nesse is not.

 

I think you need to get out more. There's a (*)(*)(*)(*)load of perversions in this world and most of them can be laid at the feet of greed. Child porn rings and websites aren't paid for with prayer. There's money to be had in perversion.

But you're right on CC...he seems a bit on the edge of obsession. prepares to get a "dislike" from CC

 

You're right; I'm so diseducated.

 

A little electric kool aid and bath salts will fix you right up.

 

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flood-myths.html

There, that should keep you busy.

As for the one male, one female thing...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_man_or_woman

Basically, a lot of the world's cultures reiterate the same creation myths.

 

Vouchers aren't a free market system though. A system using government money isn't the "free market" at work anymore than public funding for education in general.

If you're going to argue in favor of a free market for education, then it has to be purely private money being used.

 

To be fair to the Catholic Church, they've implemented strict programs to prevent abuse. You can't change a pedophile's nature. He or she will always try to find some career path, be it coaching, teaching, or preaching, that puts them around kids. The goals now have to be minimizing informal adult contact with kids.

 

The issue I take with them is that there have been multiple incidents where an accused priest is moved to some far away district. It's as if they're more concerned about saving face than saving children.

 

This was my issue with them, as well. I had a male friend who was "touched" by a priest who later was moved and now is in prison. However, I also have seen the implementation of a program to prevent this in the future and that makes me happy to see.

This is not the case yet in public schools, who likewise "hide" abysmal behavior. You have teachers who want to "hang" with the students, which always makes me suspicious.

Meh. I hate this subject because I think pedophiles are useless wastes of breath.

 

In my geology class we watched a video that questioned if Dinosaurs were completely extinct at the time of early man. It was a very good video. I still remember it. This geology class never argued that the earth was 4000 years old.

Your source is questionable for two reasons.

First, it gives no reference in the textbook to the argument that dinosaurs may exist today as being evidence against evolution.

Second, the argument that the claim that dinosaurs exist today comes from one lone radical who claims that is what he was taught, Jonny Scaramanga, 27.

Given that your source clearly has access to the textbook and that its provides no quote in the text for the crux of its argument I can only assume that the entire source for the crux of its argument comes from that one lone nut!

 

And there haven't been multiple incidences in schools as well?

Was Jerry Sundusky not protected by Penn State for over a decade as he raped children?

 

Crocodiles are "dinosaurs"...they just aren't cool dinosaurs.

Sorry...I get off on tangents when dinosaurs are mentioned.

 

Has even one pedophile priest been excommunicated yet? I have heard/ read of many very petty excommunications through the churches history, but never for priests raping little kids. It's inexcusable. They should be excommunicated and handed over to the police as the church should hold an obligation to its congregation over its clergy.

There are many amazing Catholic priests/ clergy members. Its a shame that the church's handling of these sex scandals puts them all in a bad light.

 

The entire earth was not covered in water in Noah's time. Adam and Eve are not our one common ancestor.

 

I'm sure there's some of that going on, but when it comes to public schools, I've seen more of the opposite tendency. Public teachers are usually under the microscope. A lot of parents have unrealistic demands of teachers, and if a teacher is even rumored to be abusive (especially a male teacher), then he/she will often get fired.

Granted, this is also dependent on tenure and how unionized a school's staff is. I live in a right to work state where teachers get paid poorly compared to most states, so it doesn't take much to get a teacher fired. It's also why it's hard to find quality teachers here.

 

Sandusky worked for a private college, not a public one.

There are also a lot of implications that he was supported by local law enforcement and politicians. I think that says more about State College, PA than it does about public schools.

 

Maybe in your district. Our city has an incredibly poor stats in this regard. It's just incredibly disappointing and for that reason alone I understand home schooling.

 

What state are you in?

 

Penn State is private? I think you need to go buy a dictionary.

Just google sexual abuse and coverup. You will find plenty of examples of schools covering up sexual abuse by teachers.

 

Were these floods not localized events but which must have appeared as world-wide phenomena to a neolithic man since they affected everything the narrators of these flood myths had known about the world? These legendary floods were a result of a warming of the climate throughout the Mesolithic and the Neolithic and consequently the rising sea levels. For example, it is speculated that the Mediterranean and the Black Sea were once separated by a "dam" at the Bosphorus with the Black Sea sitting much lower and covering about half of its current area. As the sea levels kept rising this dam was breached or raptured flooding the Black Sea coastlines and any settlements there. To the witnesses with a limited scope of geography, this destroyed their entire known world and must have seemed like a world-wide catasthrophe. A similar fate may have afflicted the settlements established around the Dead Sea basin. Same for the Persian Gulf that was once half its current size and where the exposed land may have hosted the Garden of Eden. Then these areas were gradually flooded in giving rise to a legend as Margot has mentioned of a man called Ziusudra. The gods according to this legend became very irritated with the mankind who appeared to them as too noisy and sent down flood to destroy the pesky creatures. Thereafter, there was no one left to make sacrifices to the gods which envoked in them a feeling of extreme hunger. The sole survivor of mankind, Ziusudra upon reaching some destitute land made fire and a sacrifice which made gods flock to it like flies to a honey. Gods realizing their mistake thereafter pledged never again to threaten mankind with extinction.

In North America a glacier dam raptured in Montana at the end of the ice age resulting in an apocalyptic flood which carved out a channel occupied today by the Columbia River.

 

New York. We're coming down, but it is still unacceptable as far as I'm concerned.

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/NYC-Teachers-Sex-Abuse-Molestation-Assault-Pedophiles-Investigation-140368333.html

 

Free market from the perspective of competition. Funding really has no issue on the issue.

 

They are "related" to dinosaurs, in the same way that birds are, but they are not dinosaurs. The dinosaurs are extinct.

 

This is very entertaining. Just like having a cat.

LOL

 

Well, there is a way to fix that. You just pass legislation that states that all school books shall be printed alike. Which they should anyway considering how often people move. Then stipulate that no federal money can be used for religious teachings during normal school hours.