"Censoring God: Why is the science establishment so threatened by the intelligent design movement?" is the title of the latest Whistleblower Magazine, the super-right wing tinfoil sombrero print edition of WorldNetDaily.
Why is the science establishment so threatened by the intelligent design movement? Because this movement is trying to force a quasi-religious philosophy down their throats and demanding that they call it 'science'. It's somewhat equivalent to forcing priests to unequivocally state that there is no proof that Jesus actually rose from the dead and that there is no real evidence that the Eucharist actually transubstantiates.
I can't imagine how a class on ID would go.
Day one: "Intelligent Design is the theory that all life was designed and created by an intelligence higher than humanity. Now, open your textbooks to chapter 1 and we'll start actually teaching you about real observable science."
If anything, it should be mentioned as "what science is not". They have a theory. They can offer no proof other than "Look at the eye! too complex MUST HAVE BEEN GOD! The bumblebee knows how to get back to the hive on its own MUST HAVE BEEN GOD!", whereas a microscope, a petri dish, and a small bacteria culture can unfold the concept of evolution in about 15 minutes, and it's available for the whole class to see.
-pb
Why is the science establishment so threatened by the intelligent design movement? Because this movement is trying to force a quasi-religious philosophy down their throats and demanding that they call it 'science'. It's somewhat equivalent to forcing priests to unequivocally state that there is no proof that Jesus actually rose from the dead and that there is no real evidence that the Eucharist actually transubstantiates.
I can't imagine how a class on ID would go.
Day one: "Intelligent Design is the theory that all life was designed and created by an intelligence higher than humanity. Now, open your textbooks to chapter 1 and we'll start actually teaching you about real observable science."
If anything, it should be mentioned as "what science is not". They have a theory. They can offer no proof other than "Look at the eye! too complex MUST HAVE BEEN GOD! The bumblebee knows how to get back to the hive on its own MUST HAVE BEEN GOD!", whereas a microscope, a petri dish, and a small bacteria culture can unfold the concept of evolution in about 15 minutes, and it's available for the whole class to see.
-pb
WorldNetDaily (your source for humor) ran an aticle about how some fundamentalist group wants Bush to open the Bible to some passage concerning repentence when he's "sworn in" to his "second term". A few people on WitchVox thought it was a good idea, but offered their own verses instead:
Proverbs 6:16-19
"There are six things which the Lord hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to Him: Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood. A heart that devises wicked plans, feet that run rapidly to evil, a false witness who utters lies and one who spreads strife among brothers."
And they say that the Bible isn't relevant today.
Another, more pointed suggestion:
Psalms 109:8
Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
Of course, there's more from that one:
Psalms 109:2-18
For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.
And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.
When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.
Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.
Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
If these crazy Paulists can take one line from their holy book and use it to justify their persecution of one group, they shouldn't mind when I take whole verses to justify the impeachment and incarceration of one man.
Ok, a bunch of men and a few women. Someone call The Hague!
-pb
Proverbs 6:16-19
"There are six things which the Lord hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to Him: Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood. A heart that devises wicked plans, feet that run rapidly to evil, a false witness who utters lies and one who spreads strife among brothers."
And they say that the Bible isn't relevant today.
Another, more pointed suggestion:
Psalms 109:8
Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
Of course, there's more from that one:
Psalms 109:2-18
For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.
They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.
And they have rewarded me evil for good, and hatred for my love.
Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand.
When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.
Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.
Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart.
As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
If these crazy Paulists can take one line from their holy book and use it to justify their persecution of one group, they shouldn't mind when I take whole verses to justify the impeachment and incarceration of one man.
Ok, a bunch of men and a few women. Someone call The Hague!
-pb
Pull plug on ACLU
Now look at you. You're fat and lethargic, like Elvis in 1976. You haven't had an attack on America in three years. You've slipped so far, you're being compared to an organization that DEFENDS THE CIVIL LIBERTIES OF AMERICANS. Shame on you, Al-Qaida. Shame on you. If the best you can muster is on par with defending the rights of a teenager in Wisconsin to wear her religious symbol like the rest of the students, you've gone off the map.
Of course, this is a victory for America. If the ACLU is as much a threat to our freedom and liberty as Al-Qaida, then we certainly have won the war on terror!
Now, it's time to pillory and burn some Godless man-sex promoters. LET'S ROLL.
-pb
And now that we know how easily government capitulates to the threat of lawsuits, it's time for someone to start suing over taxpayer support of this [the ACLU] degenerate group of God-hating perverts.Goodbye to the ACLU
Joseph Farrah, WorldNetDaily Exclusive Commentary
It is time to consider [the ACLU] organization as complete a threat to the future of the United States as al-Qaida. While al-Qaida uses physical force to destroy American buildings, the ACLU uses legal force to tear down American institutions. Whether against the Boy Scouts, Christmas, life, marriage, or the Pledge of Allegiance, the ACLU is at war on ordered liberty.Al-Qaida, you certainly have lost your punch. Three years ago, you were merrily flying planes into buildings and sending fanatical jihadis into the arms of 70-some odd virigins for all eternity. You were blowing up infidel outposts hilly-nilly, and supporting the Intifata, even if you don't really like Palestinians. You were fighting against Zion and The Great Satan, car bomb by car bomb.
-Hans Zeiger, WorldNetDaily Exclusive Commentary (in concurrence with the above)
Now look at you. You're fat and lethargic, like Elvis in 1976. You haven't had an attack on America in three years. You've slipped so far, you're being compared to an organization that DEFENDS THE CIVIL LIBERTIES OF AMERICANS. Shame on you, Al-Qaida. Shame on you. If the best you can muster is on par with defending the rights of a teenager in Wisconsin to wear her religious symbol like the rest of the students, you've gone off the map.
Of course, this is a victory for America. If the ACLU is as much a threat to our freedom and liberty as Al-Qaida, then we certainly have won the war on terror!
Now, it's time to pillory and burn some Godless man-sex promoters. LET'S ROLL.
-pb
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Democrats are at it again!
Democrats have heinously defiled World Net Daily's unscientific presidental poll. They've been logging on and VOTING FOR KERRY!
Kerry is up from 1.63% to around 25%. Some WND readers are crying 'foul'.
Uhm, hello? If you didn't want Dems to log onto your site and vote for Kerry, why didn't you just leave his name off there?
Who are you going to vote for on Nov. 2nd?
[ ] George W. Bush
There you go. No pesky Democrats.... or thinking.
-pb
Democrats have heinously defiled World Net Daily's unscientific presidental poll. They've been logging on and VOTING FOR KERRY!
Kerry is up from 1.63% to around 25%. Some WND readers are crying 'foul'.
Uhm, hello? If you didn't want Dems to log onto your site and vote for Kerry, why didn't you just leave his name off there?
Who are you going to vote for on Nov. 2nd?
[ ] George W. Bush
There you go. No pesky Democrats.... or thinking.
-pb
'How Democrats
steal elections'
We all know that in a Republic like ours, a representative democracy, the individual man is a moron, and realistically shouldn't be allowed to vote. These subversive Democrats are trying to UNDERMINE AMERICA by actually COUNTING THE VOTES THAT PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY TOO STUPID TO BE CASTING IN THE FIRST PLACE.
It's time we put a stop to these treasonous people. Their 'Constitution' is a document that has bred nothing but discontent. I URGE ALL OF YOU TO RISE UP AND TAKE BACK THIS REPUBLIC. If you truly love America, you WON'T GIVE THESE GODDAMNED DEMOCRATS A VOTE TO COUNT.
-pb
steal elections'
According to Bob Haueter, who served as chief of staff for former California Assembly Minority Leader Scott Baugh, and who is an expert on manual recounts, a Democrat lawyer intimately involved in "stealing" elections from Republicans through hand recounts admitted to the process and even shared the techniques involvedOH MY GOD DEMOCRATS ARE CHEATING BY ACTUALLY COUNTING VOTES.
We all know that in a Republic like ours, a representative democracy, the individual man is a moron, and realistically shouldn't be allowed to vote. These subversive Democrats are trying to UNDERMINE AMERICA by actually COUNTING THE VOTES THAT PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY TOO STUPID TO BE CASTING IN THE FIRST PLACE.
It's time we put a stop to these treasonous people. Their 'Constitution' is a document that has bred nothing but discontent. I URGE ALL OF YOU TO RISE UP AND TAKE BACK THIS REPUBLIC. If you truly love America, you WON'T GIVE THESE GODDAMNED DEMOCRATS A VOTE TO COUNT.
-pb
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"I'm Ok, You're Ok" -- Unless You're Christian"
Google has become the target of a lot of media lately with its Initial Public Offering, and rightly so. They're a huge, profitable company that's even managed to work themselves into our common parlance. We Google things now, as opposed to searching for them. It's a simple page with a simple service: You want to find something on the web?
Google it.
Google's business model is simple, too. They run short ads on the side of your search. These ads are simple blurbs put up by paying customers. The concept is that the ads will display when certain keywords are entered. Google's policy concerning these ads is "Don't Be Evil". They are very strict about not allowing hate, porn, or other badness into these ads. However, they don't censor internet that's searched. On one hand, they're a business: they don't want to promote hate, so they don't sell ads to people who promote hate. On the other hand, they're a service: If someone is looking for hate, they're not going to stop them.
Recently, Google declined to sell ad space to a Christian organization whose ideals Google determined to be 'hate speech', based on their hard-line anti-homosexual rhetoric. Obviously, this has touched off a firestorm.
In this article, there are a lot of misconceptions, and outright lies. Let's take a look:
Of course, with such a broad search, it's not beyond the imagination to think that something other than what you intend will display. A search for 'Clinton' also returned the seals of about 15 Clinton Counties, along with a number of towns named Clinton. There was also Hillary Clinton and George Clinton of Parliament Funkadelic fame, not to mention random images of many people around the country who happen to share a last name with our 42nd President.
Likewise, were I to search for 'teen sex' expecting to find information on teenage sexual activity statistics, I'd be a fool to think that the first site wasn't going to be a porn site.
Google's system is highly complex, but often, clever programmers will find a way to boost their page in Google's search. That's exactly what happened with the 'WMD' search, as well as 'Miserable Failure'. If John Kerry prevails as the winner in the November election, I would wager that something similar would pop up within a year's time.
Google is well within its rights to restrict advertising content that it deems questionable. They are also well within their rights to not restrict search content that is in the public domain. The business model and the service model don't have to abide by the same rules. Hate speech is not something that needs to be promoted. Google's non-biased search rankings show that it promotes itself.
When I searched for 'fags', I got GodHatesFags.com. Sad, too, because I was just looking for cigarettes.
-pb
Google has become the target of a lot of media lately with its Initial Public Offering, and rightly so. They're a huge, profitable company that's even managed to work themselves into our common parlance. We Google things now, as opposed to searching for them. It's a simple page with a simple service: You want to find something on the web?
Google it.
Google's business model is simple, too. They run short ads on the side of your search. These ads are simple blurbs put up by paying customers. The concept is that the ads will display when certain keywords are entered. Google's policy concerning these ads is "Don't Be Evil". They are very strict about not allowing hate, porn, or other badness into these ads. However, they don't censor internet that's searched. On one hand, they're a business: they don't want to promote hate, so they don't sell ads to people who promote hate. On the other hand, they're a service: If someone is looking for hate, they're not going to stop them.
Recently, Google declined to sell ad space to a Christian organization whose ideals Google determined to be 'hate speech', based on their hard-line anti-homosexual rhetoric. Obviously, this has touched off a firestorm.
In this article, there are a lot of misconceptions, and outright lies. Let's take a look:
When the word 'gay' is searched, the theme of the ads is strictly homosexual pornography sites.I just tried this. I entered 'gay' into the search bar, and then refreshed the page 10 times. A total of 43 ads displayed, mostly for Gay singles sites. Some of them had titillating content, but nothing that could even be remotely construed as 'pornography'. Not even close. What I saw was less racy than a 30-second Victoria's Secret ad. Most of them were pay sites, as well. There were also a few ads for advocacy and help groups.
Images offered by Google can also be obscene. A WorldNetDaily reader claimed, 'I often go to Google images, looking for pictures to use. Almost without fail you will find porn mixed in with innocent requests.' Searching for the word 'Clinton,' produced a nude woman, the reader said.The Google Images feature is the same as their search tool. Google makes no attempt to censor internet content. As for the Clinton search, however, I had to go down 9 pages into the search to find a thumbnail of a picture that no longer existed on the original server. The thumbnail was a photoshopped image of Bill Clinton and a Monica Lewinsky's head on a (thin) lingerie-clad body. It wasn't even large enough to actually see anything. Another racy-but-cartoony image appeared on page 22.
Of course, with such a broad search, it's not beyond the imagination to think that something other than what you intend will display. A search for 'Clinton' also returned the seals of about 15 Clinton Counties, along with a number of towns named Clinton. There was also Hillary Clinton and George Clinton of Parliament Funkadelic fame, not to mention random images of many people around the country who happen to share a last name with our 42nd President.
Another WorldNetDaily reader pointed out that when the word 'Jew' is put into Google, the second site listed is JewWatch, 'a venomous anti-Semitic website,' the reader stated.'Jew' has taken a negative connotation in recent history. It is no longer the most acceptable method of describing someone of Hebrew descent. Therefore, someone searching for 'Jew' likely isn't looking for something on Jewish culture. They're not looking for Israeli news. They're likely not trying to find a detailed history of Hebrew culture.
Likewise, were I to search for 'teen sex' expecting to find information on teenage sexual activity statistics, I'd be a fool to think that the first site wasn't going to be a porn site.
Yet another reader noted when one enters 'WMD' in the search engine, the first result is a page ridiculing President Bush about the lack of weapons the U.S. has found in Iraq. The page is disguised as a 'Page Cannot be Displayed' error message but instead is titled 'These Weapons of Mass Destruction cannot be displayed.'Well, when I searched for 'liberals', the fourth site down was "Laugh At Liberals", which is 'Conservative political commentary that satirizes the liberal left, with weblog, videos, and pictures.'
Google's system is highly complex, but often, clever programmers will find a way to boost their page in Google's search. That's exactly what happened with the 'WMD' search, as well as 'Miserable Failure'. If John Kerry prevails as the winner in the November election, I would wager that something similar would pop up within a year's time.
Google is well within its rights to restrict advertising content that it deems questionable. They are also well within their rights to not restrict search content that is in the public domain. The business model and the service model don't have to abide by the same rules. Hate speech is not something that needs to be promoted. Google's non-biased search rankings show that it promotes itself.
When I searched for 'fags', I got GodHatesFags.com. Sad, too, because I was just looking for cigarettes.
-pb
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