people make me sad
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kippurbirdFrom the LA Times the other day : Their own Version of a big bang
Evolution = cause of all Societal ills
Ham considers that treason. When pastors dismiss the creation account as a fable, he says, they give their flock license to disregard the Bible's moral teachings as well. He shows his audiences a graphic that places the theory of evolution at the root of all social ills: abortion, divorce, racism, gay marriage, store clerks who say "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas."
Fossil record = Proof of Noah's Flood
In six hourlong lectures, Ham and his colleague David Menton, an anatomy professor retired from Washington University in St. Louis, laid out their best arguments for creationism. Ham described the fossil record as "billions of dead things … laid down by water" — proof, he said, of Noah's flood. Menton marveled at the mechanics of the human eye, far too intricate, he said, to have evolved by random mutation.
Brain Washed Children
Ham convinced her otherwise. As her mother beamed, Emily repeated Ham's mantra: "The Bible is the history book of the universe."
Ben Watson wasn't quite as confident. His father, a pastor in Staten Island, N.Y., had let him skip a day of second grade to attend. Ben went to public school, the Rev. Dave Watson explained, "and I thought it would be good for him to get a different perspective" for an upcoming project on Tyrannosaurus rex.
"You going to put in your report that dinosaurs are millions of years old?" Watson, 46, asked his son.
"No…. " Ben said. He hesitated. "But that's what my book says…. "
"It's a lot to think about," his dad reassured him. "We'll do more research."
Fun with Shadowrun
After one and a half sessions Matt has decided that his technomancer wasn't powerful enough or doing anything so he's making a mage. He also suggested (during play) that we who are doing something horribly illegal to call in some cops to help us because he knows some one on the police force casue he's a dirty cop. And we're like police = bad. First off they can't do shit. Second off they'd arrest us, just because, third off we don't want to involve anyone more because it's a SHADOW run. Silecnce and as few people who know about it as possible is better.
Other than that game play is fun, though learning how to play (the mechanics) is a bit confusing sometimes.
Evolution = cause of all Societal ills
Ham considers that treason. When pastors dismiss the creation account as a fable, he says, they give their flock license to disregard the Bible's moral teachings as well. He shows his audiences a graphic that places the theory of evolution at the root of all social ills: abortion, divorce, racism, gay marriage, store clerks who say "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas."
Fossil record = Proof of Noah's Flood
In six hourlong lectures, Ham and his colleague David Menton, an anatomy professor retired from Washington University in St. Louis, laid out their best arguments for creationism. Ham described the fossil record as "billions of dead things … laid down by water" — proof, he said, of Noah's flood. Menton marveled at the mechanics of the human eye, far too intricate, he said, to have evolved by random mutation.
Brain Washed Children
Ham convinced her otherwise. As her mother beamed, Emily repeated Ham's mantra: "The Bible is the history book of the universe."
Ben Watson wasn't quite as confident. His father, a pastor in Staten Island, N.Y., had let him skip a day of second grade to attend. Ben went to public school, the Rev. Dave Watson explained, "and I thought it would be good for him to get a different perspective" for an upcoming project on Tyrannosaurus rex.
"You going to put in your report that dinosaurs are millions of years old?" Watson, 46, asked his son.
"No…. " Ben said. He hesitated. "But that's what my book says…. "
"It's a lot to think about," his dad reassured him. "We'll do more research."
Fun with Shadowrun
After one and a half sessions Matt has decided that his technomancer wasn't powerful enough or doing anything so he's making a mage. He also suggested (during play) that we who are doing something horribly illegal to call in some cops to help us because he knows some one on the police force casue he's a dirty cop. And we're like police = bad. First off they can't do shit. Second off they'd arrest us, just because, third off we don't want to involve anyone more because it's a SHADOW run. Silecnce and as few people who know about it as possible is better.
Other than that game play is fun, though learning how to play (the mechanics) is a bit confusing sometimes.
