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RagAss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 11:29 AM Original message |
Want to know what Creationism and Anti-Science buys us? |
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Lerkfish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 11:34 AM Response to Original message |
1. not sure I understand the connection. |
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RagAss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 11:37 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. The promotion of fables to explain reality, instead of science. |
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Lerkfish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 12:23 PM Response to Reply #2 |
8. I thought you were assigning economic consequences to philosophical viewpoints |
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Synicus Maximus (828 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 08:48 PM Response to Reply #2 |
25. Would that be the fables about the Buddah or Vishnu? |
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RagAss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 09:47 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. like dinosaurs roaming the earth 6,000 years ago |
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canetoad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 09:50 PM Response to Reply #2 |
27. Grokked ya |
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FiveGoodMen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 11:38 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. I think it's: If we teach irrationality to ourselves and our kids, we'll have no one that can cope |
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RagAss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 11:39 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. need more evidence |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 11:44 AM Response to Reply #1 |
5. Losing technical prowess has no effect on our ability to be a technological leader? |
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Lerkfish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 12:20 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. outsourcing is not a result of a lack of qualified american technology experts |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 12:22 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. This isn't about outsourcing, it's about education |
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Lerkfish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 12:26 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. oh perhaps. but when the OP contains this phrase |
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BlancheSplanchnik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-09-10 03:26 AM Response to Reply #10 |
31. seems like the economic condition is a logical result of the educational one. |
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Duppers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 02:00 PM Response to Reply #6 |
16. if this country takes the 'palin path', it will be. nt. |
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Zoeisright (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 12:56 PM Response to Reply #1 |
12. Yes there is. If we don't teach logic and critical reasoning, |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 12:25 PM Response to Original message |
9. in my experience many religious nutters with science interests go into engineering or medicine... |
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GoneOffShore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 12:40 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Some of the wackiest commenters on Pharyngula are engineers. |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 01:04 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Ahhh, nothing like a nice little bit of engineer bashing |
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GoneOffShore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 10:47 PM Response to Reply #14 |
30. Only reporting here. |
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Kurt_and_Hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 01:00 PM Response to Original message |
13. Is there a divine order of who is supposed to clean who's toilets? |
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RagAss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 02:21 PM Response to Reply #13 |
17. Wow ! Talk about turning an apple into an egg. |
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FiveGoodMen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 02:27 PM Response to Reply #13 |
18. I would think that, ideally, the Chinese and the Americans would each clean their own toilets |
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dionysus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 10:37 PM Response to Reply #13 |
29. i am unsure even why that was what you brought away from that post. |
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Duppers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 01:57 PM Response to Original message |
15. amen to the spirit of your post |
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RagAss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 02:29 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. Thanks for cutting to the gist of it. The image I used was a hook... |
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Bert (445 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 03:12 PM Response to Original message |
20. Stop nitpicking |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 07:48 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. Thanks, Bert. Nice post. nt |
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Duppers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 10:10 PM Response to Reply #20 |
28. "Stop looking at higher education as some kind of elitist plot" |
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BreweryYardRat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 04:08 PM Response to Original message |
21. "There is no greater responsibility of an American than to put a fucking end to this shit right now" |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 07:49 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. You're pretty bright for a rat, lol. +1 nt |
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tavalon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-08-10 08:44 PM Response to Original message |
24. That's rather optimistic |
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