goitta get ready for work…

Sadly it’s getting to where High School Biology teachers need to take special courses in “Evolutionary Answers to Creationist Nonsense” in order to be prepared to teach their classes and deal with the distortions.

Actually, there have been books about this since the mid-90s, training sessions on how educators, curriculum committee members and school board members can answer these superstitious people since the late 80s.

Fighting creationism is an evolutionary process. Knowledge vs blind faith. We usually win on a level playing field…

Sadly it’s getting to where High School Biology teachers need to take special courses in “Evolutionary Answers to Creationist Nonsense” in order to be prepared to teach their classes and deal with the distortions.

And the agenda of the Intelligent Design people goes far beyond the criticism of Biology. They actually want to transform the whole curriculum…they want the teaching of History to include prophetic and “destiny” elements. Y’know…the same stuff that Palin is telling her church that justifies the Iraq War…that it’s a god-directed set of events. They want to teach that leaders are placed into office because of some “Godly plan” (so don’t resist when a Republican gets into power…only resisting a Satanic Muslim is valid)…”the divine right of kings”. They want to place the Constitution and the Nations legal structure under a religious mantle…rather than a secularly derived one.
This was all laid out in the DI’s “Wedge” document. And one key aspect of the “Wedge” is using covert “stealth” candidates to move into key political positions to advance the agenda.

Drudge is still running “Lipstick” headers, seven hours after the National Enquirer began running their Palin family blockbuster tease. No mention in the Alaska media yet, either.

When the Edwards affair stuff ran in the Enquirer, Drudge had it up within MINUTES…

Even in the face of factual evidence to the contrary – Billions and Billions of years in the Archaeological Record – containing clear and unmistakable Factual Evidence of continuous, rationally discernible development – her Beliefs trump all of that.

How does she know the Earth is 6,000 years old? Well, if you take the Bible and start with Adam and Eve, corresponding to God’s Creation of the World, and then follow the listing of the generations of families, you get roughly 6,000 years of elapsed history to the present day.

Therefore, since the Bible is the Unerring Literal Truth for Sarah, that means the Earth and All of Creation is 6,000 years old.

She’s potentially one heartbeat away from the Nuclear Football, and she’s Certain these are the End Times, too.

Would Sarah send Our Troops to fight in a Religious War?

Her Beliefs trump reason and logic.

Beliefs are All that Sarah has – she has No Substance, No Rational Processes, and Worst of All No Character – She’ll say anything to Stealthily Advance her Religious Narrative.

Because it’s All She Has.

This is where I differ with Obama. He says that Palin “is clearly a deeply Religious person, and that’s good” but he fails to make the distinction that she’s Only Religious, and in an Extremist, Incredibly Hypocritical Way.

Sarah – “To tell the truth, I haven’t thought much about the Iraq War.”

Sarah – “The Iraq War is a tasking from God.”

Undoubtedly, she’ll soon say that she’s not a young earth creationist – and she’ll believe it with all her heart when she looks into the camera and delivers her line with deep conviction – but she won’t be able to articulate a non-Magical Thinking worldview, because that’s not who she is. All she’s Got is a lifetime of Magical Thinking, derived from her Beliefs about the Bible.

Like a 6,000 year old Universe.

And a Mission, in accordance with God’s Plan, for All of US.

Wake Up, America!

I can’t figure out why Obama’s campaign is not referring to Palin as the “not ready for prime time player,” since they are not ready to bring her out in public to answer real questions.

I’d recommend playing the fear card; I don’t want anybody who looks forward to the end of days in their own life time and believes that the war in Iraq is a mission from God to be anywhere near control of nuclear weapons. The mere thought of it scares the shit out of me.