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AUSTIN – The second most powerful member of the Texas House has circulated a Georgia lawmaker's call for a broad assault on teaching of evolution.

House Appropriations Committee Chairman Warren Chisum, R-Pampa, used House operations Tuesday to deliver a memo from Georgia state Rep. Ben Bridges.

The memo assails what it calls "the evolution monopoly in the schools."

Mr. Bridges' memo claims that teaching evolution amounts to indoctrinating students in an ancient Jewish sect's beliefs.

"Indisputable evidence – long hidden but now available to everyone – demonstrates conclusively that so-called 'secular evolution science' is the Big Bang, 15-billion-year, alternate 'creation scenario' of the Pharisee Religion," writes Mr. Bridges, a Republican from Cleveland, Ga. He has argued against teaching of evolution in Georgia schools for several years.

He then refers to a Web site, www.fixedearth.com, that contains a model bill for state Legislatures to pass to attack instruction on evolution as an unconstitutional establishment of religion.

Mr. Bridges also supplies a link to a document that describes scientists Carl Sagan and Albert Einstein as "Kabbalists" and laments "Hollywood's unrelenting role in flooding the movie theaters with explicit or implicit endorsement of evolutionism."

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Read it here.

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Originally posted by Snuckles:
What do they put in the water down there?

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Originally posted by BetterRed:
Copernican and Darwinian Myths"...

Holy...
Copernicus peddled us a bunch of myths>?
Therefore, the Earth REALLY is FLAT!!!!!

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Hehe.. I do appreciate the irony of your post. A post that ridicules people for labeling Copernicus and Darwin's work as myths, itself propagates another myth!

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Originally posted by BetterRed:
the Earth REALLY is FLAT!!!!!

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Originally posted by oldgoat:
That Copernicus was an opponent of the flat earth theory, instead of the geocentric universe theory is not a myth, merely an error in what was a rhetorical device.

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Well, of course he was an opponent of flat earth theory. It was debunked centuries before his time. Did you read my wiki link? It would be like saying Einstein was an opponent of flat earth theory.

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Originally posted by oldgoat:
No I didn't read you link, and I am aware generally of the history of the proof that the earth is round, and as well that any well educated person in the middle ages was also aware. I wasn't responding to that, I was reacting to your quibble.

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Hehe... fair enough, fair enough. Allow me to add my own joke then.

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Originally posted by Nanuq:
People are too interested in quick sound bites to get a real picture of what evolution is really about.

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I was at a media training session last year where the instructor stated that "what you say in the next 8 seconds can have a profound affect on your job, bill, resolution, stock etc."