Legislation opens classroom doors to alternative views of evolution, global warming, cloning

Bluenose wrote:

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The OED puty it thus:
apocryphal
• adjective 1 widely circulated but unlikely to be true: an apocryphal story. 2 of or belonging to the Apocrypha.
Obviously I am using definition 1.

I know, it was for Brian-O. But thanks anyway.

:-)

Brian-O, don't say I don't do you no favours. By the way, that clock's still ticking...

pecos_annie wrote:

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Come to West Michigan. You'll bump into more ID believers than not.

And that is why I don't talk to people. Not in person, anyway.
Well, not so much because of their belief as because of what it implies about them...you know.

Brian O wrote:

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Never heard of it.

I've heard of it, and I still don't get it.

Brian O wrote:

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You have "the church" confused with "the muslims", and yes, science did prove that the bumblebee can't fly in the '50s, look it up.

1)Woah, you fell for some big-time propoganda there. In actuality, during the "Dark Ages," The Muslims rose to control the Arabian Peninsula, and they allowd members of other religions to stay and live there--although they did have to pay slightly higher taxes. Meanwhile, the European continent had remained Christian, and was the agressor in a series of wars known as The Crusades, which were aimed at re-seizing control over the "Holy Land" of Jerusalem, located on the Arabian Peninsula.
I have even heard of a "Kiddie Crusade," where they sent in nothing but children armed with sticks and the promise of God's aide...unfortunately, they were also wiped out (in self-defense) but the inhabitants of the Muslim nations.

2)This is actually a good example to show that just because someone is a scientist, doesn't mean they know everything. Generally, a scientist specializes in a particular field of study, which is suited to the analysis of particular sets of data. This story involves someone like an aerodynamics engineer or such measuring the surface area of a bee's wing and the mass of the bumblebee, and discovering that (provided that the bee's wing remained completely straight while flying and lacking any other engines) a bee shouldn't be able to fly...at least not like an airplane. Of course, this was more suited for a biologist; as, since it would then be true that a bee would not be able to glide and soar like a bird or plane (a helicopter can't either, for that matter), the wing bends or something when it is flapped to...Well...I'm not a biologist, and if there's one thing to learn from this tale, it's that that means I have no idea how a bumblebee flies. Actually, come to think of it, I'm still kind of foggy about how a helicopter does it...I mean, I get the basics: giant fan, angled blades, like a vertical propeller, but... well, I'm not an aeronautics expert either. I'm just seventeen, I haven't learned everything yet.

anyway, good night and good luck.

Rucin wrote:

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I've heard of it, and I still don't get it.

I haz... my own fun.

:-(

The Dude wrote:

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I haz... my own fun.
:-(

Eh, that's allright. Have fun with your fun.
...Thundercats, right?