Unbelievable video of a man speaking at the Florida evolution hearings.

[madfloridian]

Run time: 03:38 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5UiUWa34cY   Posted on YouTube: February 16, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: February 18, 2008 By DU Member: madfloridian Views on DU: 3924

 
It is almost self-explanatory. I am embarrassed for my state. Here is what the website that posted the video had to say.

Now I'm sure this guy thought his rhetoric was cute, but it was nothing more than rhetoric. All this really shows is how pathetically out of touch some Floridians are with modern science. I think this video more than anything else is evidence that Florida should make evolution a larger part of their science curriculum. Florida, do you really want to condemn your youth to doltish ramblings that mimic this guy's? I certainly hope not. Please, please, for the love of all that is holy; quickly, quietly, up your education standards.

I wrote more from that website about a shocking poll on the subject

[ulysses]

1. sounds like a preacher.

But yes, we're all star stuff in the end.

[roguevalley]

40. watch the people behind him. I personally would sue him for the

waste of irretrievable minutes listening to his psychosis if I were on the board.

[baldguy]

2. Another faithless fundamentalist.

He has a belief system so fragile that he needs to search for proof - and not being able to find it makes some up.

[better tomorrow]

3. New Quote.....

The original quote was, "All this really shows is how pathetically out of touch some Floridians are with modern science."

All I have to say is that I, too, am embarrassed for my state, just like MadFloridian. After all, we got disenfranchised in 2000 with hanging chads and then again in 2008 in the primaries with delegates. The quote should be: "all this really shows is how pathetically out of touch some Floridians are with modern voting."

[madfloridian]

5. Good one.

:hi:

[BlueJazz]

8. I'm from Florida also....sigh.....but hate to admit it.

:)

[ulysses]

! the truck driver anecdote about being on I-60?

Run time: 03:38 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5UiUWa34cY   Posted on YouTube: February 16, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: February 18, 2008 By DU Member: ulysses Views on DU: 3924

 
There is no Interstate 60.
http://www.answers.com/topic/list-of-interstate-highways?cat=travel

[madfloridian]

7. I never thought about that. Interesting.

That was such a weird tale..I did not know whether to laugh or cry.

[A HERETIC I AM]

9. lol...You caught that too, huh?

and exit 5## whatever? There are only 4 stretches of interstate inside a state long enough to have a mile marker 500 or higher. I 5 in CA, I 90 in Montana, I 10 across Texas and I 20 across Texas.

People like that make me ashamed to be a Floridian.

[A HERETIC I AM]

4. "Argumentum ad Orangeum"

What a fucking nitwit.

[madfloridian]

6. LOL

:rofl:

[graywarrior]

10. This is why I am fleeing this state.

I work with people like this. They make "decisions" that effect other people. Scary shit.

[ClintonTyree]

15. Same here....

left 4 years ago and I don't regret it one iota. Snow and ice I can deal with, ignorance and superstition...... no.

[jhrobbins]

34. What is the deal with Florida? Not rhetorical - I'm really asking.

[Kitty Herder]

11. Yes, sir, we're all related to oranges.

So what? Was there a point to all that? I mean besides displaying his mind-boggling ignorance for all the world to see?

[bjobotts]

12. Heightened stupidity, an embarrassment to the orange.

[bjobotts]

13. page 167 was all he could find to take argument with? Shouldn't go off his meds.

[trusty elf]

14. Yikes, that IS embarrassing!

Sigh, I'm glad I live abroad and am thus somewhat removed from this peculiarly American brand of ignorance and bone-headed stupidity.

That clown wears it like a badge of honor!

It's shocking, appalling, and embarrassing, yes, but It's also very funny, actually!

What a magnificent rhetoritician! Move over Cicero!

[barbtries]

16. that was so embarassing i couldn't keep watching.

my 15-year-old son, a sophomore in high school, is taking world history. his teacher laid it out as if the kids were free to make a choice about history: there were the oldest human bones found (4.8 million years old), then there is the creationist theory, that gawd started it all in 6 days some 6,000 years ago, then there's intelligent design...

public school in NC, USA. eek

[Kokonoe]

17. He's right, oranges are not cats & dogs.

Lets give him credit for that. And why didn't they let him collect everyones money.

[liberal hypnotist]

18. We live in Florida and there are more!

Every once in a while, we run into a poor mentally deformed thinker like the speaker in the video. They are allowed to vote, shop, drive and intermingle with others. After years of of misinformation they believe what they say-facts are unimportant.

They believe god has given them the correct information. We are returning to the Northeast where people like the speaker are treated as being mentally ill. He may have children.

[madfloridian]

25. Ha Ha "vote, shop, drive and intermingle with others."

Yep in Florida they are allowed. :o

[Deny and Shred]

27. They can certify election results and be Governor, too.

That was priceless. He was pitching the Board of Education, no less. Wow, that sure was convincing. I bet somewhere in our USA, a teacher is presenting things roughly the same way, sad to say.
Someone ought to study the environmental factors in Florida that naturally selected that guy.

[Phred42]

19. maybe Oranges make you stupid.

[paparush]

20. Where will you flee to? This mind-cancer is spreading across our nation.

People willing to suspend disbelief. The worsening economic gloom will only foster this willingness to cling to the supernatural.

[wolfgangmo]

42. Just a thought about fleeing

Although my wife and I have decided to stay in the fight, I must admit that we have thought of leaving.


Canada is very nice and similar enough to the US in some ways to be comforting. They get a LOT more for the same tax rates we have .



New Zealand is off the hook beautiful and they will fast track immigration for anyone on their list of occupations/professions that they need.



England. It's expensive but you get great infrastructure, deep history, an educated population , 4 - 6 weeks paid vacation a year and you are hours away from the rest of the EU.



You have options. Check them out.

[L. Coyote]

21. For the sake of humanity, women must be selective in mate choices.

In particular, I hope they know a fool when they meet one.

Be careful who you mate with, or you end up with oranges for brains! :rofl:

[rasputin1952]

23. Thank heaven he wasn't fondling rhubarb like he was fondling

those oranges...:evilgrin:

on edit: or a banana...:eyes:

[rasputin1952]

22. So why did the oranges have to be connected to dogs and cats?

Seems to me, he was far more related to vegetable matter than any cat of dog I ever knew.

I was discussing Genesis w/a friend of mine one day, and asked that if the story was true, as described and he was prone to accept, if Adam and Eve had Caine and Abel, Cain kills Abel, why are we here, the genetic line ended at that point?

For that matter, why did God tell Cain to go build cities and get himself a wife...cities for who, a wife from where?

He told me that we don't have all of the answers, and I replied, "precisely, and that is why we search for the answers".

[iamthebandfanman]

24. wow , hes the king of 'out of context'

isnt he ?
lol

no, it couldnt mean that we all need each other to co-exist and depend on each other for survival... naaah.. that couldnt be what it meant.


yup, we are are 4th cousins of oranges. i told jimmy not to stick his thingy in there !

[Iwillnevergiveup]

26. In fairness to Floridians

the audience sure seemed underwhelmed.

[Plucketeer]

28. Global warming wouldn't be ALL bad.

Watching the Science channel last night, it was reasoned that the state of Florida would disappear if all the ice on the planet melted. See - there's good 'n bad to everything! :woohoo:

[Mr_Scarecrow]

29. Hilarious

how the guy relates the "trucker's story" and gets in a nasty swipe at the people he's trying to convince. To paraphrase, "The maggots combined with the turkeys and the result was the Board of Education. Now kindly do what I'm telling you." Sure!

All this guy had to do was appear reasonable for three minutes. Instead, he proudly displayed his ingorance and sociopathic people skills. Intelligent design? I think not!

[H8fascistcons]

30. I know who went to school with this freak!!!

It was the decider Foster W. Brooks....(Georgie Bush)

[CarlG]

32. Had to be home schooled

So how many home schooled children are educated just like him.

[Kjaereste]

36. Homeschooling is for progressives, too.

I'm a Floridian and homeschooled my children so they *wouldn't* be exposed to this sort of "education." Please don't stereotype people.

Kate

[wolfgangmo]

43. Some but not all ...

... I know some very well educated home schooled kids ... of course I don't hang out in the dumber churches.




... Now is you want to meet some off the hook well educated kids then go and check out a Waldorf school. Without fail, the kids that I met from Waldorf schools were WAYYYYYYYYYYY ahead of the curve.

[CarlG]

31. Rapture, please hurry

I could not believe this. It has to be made up. The orange has more intelligence than this man. I really hope the rapture comes soon and gets these religious fools out of here. Course then we are stuck with the other faith religious fools. Showed this to some other christians and they were embarrassed.

[KansDem]

33. self-deleted

[pjt7]

35. DUMB DUMB

How did he get the microphone?

[EvolveOrConvolve]

37. A case study in logical fallacies

This should be shown to middle schoolers and explained in detail how it is wrong on many many levels.

Do we not teach critical thinking skills any longer in our schools?

[lumpy]

38. He's related to a turnip

x

[wolfgangmo]

44. I grew up on the prairies...

... and we would say that he is a son of a corncob.



If you have to ask what that means, you don't want to know.

[Arbolitoazul]

39. Thank God intelligence design has not been approved

In many states. i believe Kansas approved it, and correct me if I'm wrong.

[Fedja]

41. He's just confused.

Confused about "close relation" and "distant relation". Same as his parents were when they married in the family.

[provis99]

45. I'd be less embarrassed being related to an orange than be related to him

At least an orange has brains enough to shut its damn fool mouth rather than look stupid.