At approximately 4 p.m. Sunday afternoon, a few members of the newly recreated non-religious group, Alabama Atheist and Agnostics, did chalking in the Ferguson Plaza, outside of Lakeside Diner and outside of Reese Phifer Hall, according to Peter Sloan, vice president of Alabama Atheist and Agnostics and a senior double majoring in music composition and philosophy.
“While we were chalking somebody dumped water on what we were chalking, somebody spat at us,” Sloan said. “But really, overall, most people were polite.”
At approximately 6 p.m., AAA finished their chalking, Sloan said. By midnight, all the chalking had been erased and scrubbed clean by what appeared to be an organization’s effort.
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The chalking was redone from midnight until 1 a.m., Sloan said. The chalking was again found to be erased by noon on Monday.
BTW, the administration was extremely unhelpful to the atheist organization — essentially telling them to go Cheney themselves. I seriously doubt they would have treated a Christian organization that way.
And in other news, colleges have become commie indoctrination centers filled with radical America-hating feminazi professors who need to be blacklisted. The Young Conservatives of Texas said so.
Two bits of naked GOP hypocrisy about education for you today. (Eww, I just got a bad mental image from having “naked” and “GOP” in the same sentence.) First, this video call to volunteerism that was shown in a school assembly at Eagle Bay Elementary School in Farmington, Utah got the conservatives’ panties in a collective bunch:
Oddly (or perhaps not so oddly), conservatives don’t see anything creepy about (or seem to have conveniently forgotten) this address by Bush the Elder to American grade school students back in October of 1991:
Or this famous gaffe-filled photo op by The Most Holy George W. Christ The Infallible:
The “mythical” Separation of Church and State applies to everyone, even atheists, so we will pass a law banning all religious thought from school except Christianity.
Conservative University Founded by Jerry Falwell Bans College Democrats Club The club is barred from using Liberty University’s name, advertising events and holding meetings on campus
RICHMOND, Va. — Liberty University has ordered its fledgling College Democrats club to shut down, saying the group stands against the conservative Christian school’s moral principles.
Club president Brian Diaz said he was shocked to be notified by e-mail last week that the club was being banned by the private university in Lynchburg founded by the late Rev. Jerry Falwell. The university first recognized it in the fall.
“We were shocked, as well, that (the club) even got accepted. It was huge, and we were glad that Liberty did that,” Diaz said in a telephone interview from Orlando, Fla.
Well, yeah, it would be surprising that a theocratic university would tolerate dissident thought in the first place. And it’s not surprising at all that the university spokesdrone would attribute allowing the existence of an opposing viewpoint on campus to “an oversight by an administrator.” The First Amendment is an oversight to these nutbars.
According to the e-mail, the club must stop using the university’s name, holding meetings on campus, or advertising events. Violators could incur one or more reprimands under the school’s Liberty Way conduct code, and anyone who accumulates 30 reprimands is subject to expulsion.
And naturally, a right-wing fink tank is rushing to the defense of Theocracy U.:
John Whitehead, president of the Rutherford Institute, which advocates for Christian rights, including free speech, says private colleges have a right to limit such groups, but curbing the marketplace of ideas isn’t necessarily healthy.
Shorter John Whitehead: “Sure we’re for Freedom of Speech! Just not for *SHUDDER* THOSE people.”
And you wonder why I have little patience for religious conservatives…
I have never heard evolutionists explain it in a proven scientific matter.
See here and here for some scientific explanations and “proofs” of evolution.
It’s always a blob oozing out of the muck or a big bang in the universe.
The “blob oozing out of the muck” is a creationist’s strawman way of refering to abiogenesis. The Big Bang Theory has nothing to do with evolution, as one involves astronomy and cosmology while the other is the purview of biology once life finally arises on a planet. But if you really want to learn about the Big Bang (and are not asking a rhetorical question), you can find out more here.
OK, where did the muck come from?
If it was a big bang, how did the universe get started?
The big bang IS how the universe came into being. Pay attention.
At this point, I should note that the big bang and evolution are NOT mutually exclusive theories. You can have your cake and eat it in this case because the two theories are concerned with entirely different subjects.
What is the universe inside of? What is beyond the universe? If you say there are more universes, where does it stop?
Huh? I have no clue what your point is, dude. If anyone else wants to take a stab at parsing this nonsense, be my guest.
Science has no answers. God does.
Science has no answers? Not one? Okay then, if that’s what you believe, then I suggest that you turn off your computer, unplug your fridge, sell your TV, stop going to the doctor when you get sick, renounce all technology and go back to the caves. If you really think that a Bronze Age book written by committee and assembled by early Iron Age authoritarians with an agenda can do better at answering all of life’s questions, then you need to remove yourself from modern society and stop mooching off of the productive citizens who accept that science has at least some minuscule value, you damn freeloader!
This is the 21st Century. We need to have science education standards that reflect that fact. And the Theory of Evolution is at the core of modern biology. Therefore, I will withhold federal education dollars from any school district, any state board of education that makes any effort to weaken or eliminate from the curriculum the teaching of the Theory of Evolution in order to serve a narrow religious viewpoint.
RIO DE JANEIRO — Where’s Ecuador? Better not ask that question in Brazil.
A new Brazilian geography textbook for sixth-grade students doesn’t even include the South American country on the map.
In fact, the book distributed by the Education Ministry in Brazil’s most populous state botches the location of most of Brazil’s neighbours.
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The geographical jumbling baffled sixth-grader Joao Gabriel Anchieta, who looked over the map while being interviewed by Globo, Brazil’s largest television network.
Asked what would happen should he have to take a geography test based upon the map, Joao said he “would get a bad grade.”
So no matter where you live, you have a stake in this fight. Contact the SBOE and demand that they stop farting around and start putting students’ education ahead of their theocratic impulses.
