Georgia Congressman promotes site which promotes GEOCENTRIC model of universe

[ck4829]

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.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/DN-evolution_14tex.ART.State.Edition1.298e1cb.html

"Read all about the Copernican and Darwinian Myths"

"The Earth is not rotating...nor is it going around the sun."

http://fixedearth.com/

[Nikki Stone1]

1. Why is ignorance being touted as freedom?

Just wondered.

[TechBear_Seattle]

3. Ignorance means being free of doubt n/t

[Nikki Stone1]

5. Free of doubt is free of thought

I think this is part of a larger aim

[shain from kane]

2. Mr. Bridges, the men in the white coats are here to see you.

[originalpckelly]

4. OMG! ROFL!

:rofl:

You know I have a feeling the Congressman knows the Earth goes around the sun, because he's out in space. :crazy:

[silverweb]

6. Wow.

Just... wow.

There can be no reasonable explanation for such insane, unrestrained ignorance.

:crazy:

[Richard Steele]

7. Every time I think these loons have hit bottom, another one whips out a shovel.

This frothing asshat site is LITERALLY claiming
that the sun revolves around the earth. I'm speechless!

[SaveElmer]

8. This has been tried before...and failed miserably in the courts...nt

[Manifestor_of_Light]

9. Geezz......

Kepler, Galileo, Bruno, Copernicus, Magellan, Sagan, Feynman, Einstein and all those guys are busy red-lining the marble tachometer.


"The Church says that the earth is Flat, but I have seen the Shadow on the Moon, and it is Round, and I have more Faith in a Shadow on the Moon than in the Church."
---Ferdinand Magellan

[intaglio]

10. For goodness sake no-one tell them that the word Algebra is Arabic eom

[InvisibleTouch]

11. Too funny!

The "fixedearth.com" creators are either really REALLY stupid (and from the painfully shoddy web design I'd say that's a good bet), or this is some bored undergrad's lame, alcohol-saturated attempt at a spoof.

The only element that's still missing is a flat Earth. Er ... the Earth is still flat, right? :)

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. That "painfully shoddy web design" is part of the authentic kook web experience

See this thread in the Skeptics Group - especially the subthread starting here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=247&topic_id=6742&mesg_id=6744

If you're spoofing a nutter, it's vital to have long, unorganised lists on your front page, distracting changes of text colour - and background colour too - and lots of single-line, centred text.

[nealmhughes]

12. The Flat -- pardonnez moi, je m'ajuste -- Fixed Earth Society has a hoot of a website!

Just browsing thru the virtual reams of anecdotal "evidence," conspiracy theory and downright horrid writing and research, such as claiming that George Washington called Tom Paine "that filthy little atheist," when in reality, Theodore Roosevelt did that in his "Life of Gouverneur Morris" in 1896 on p. 289 (Miller, M.M.; "A Square Deal" online at http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:vq2vBDWIVcAJ:socserv2.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/paine/342-360%2520-%2520%2520A%2520Square%2520Deal.rtf+filthy+little+atheist&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=us&client=opera

Hey, rotation deniers! Don't screw around with academic librarians, ever! We may not find a necktie worn with a pair of Birkenstock clogs to be odd or a coworker who finds satisfaction in keeping 17 rescue cats in a one BR apt. strange, but beware of thy sins, lest they find ye out!

[Edweird]

14. Holeeeeey crap.

How did this one get elected? What does this say about the people who elected him? There's w's base right there.
:rofl:
Yeah, and somebody get nasa working on changing lead into gold right away. That'll solve our budget deficit.

:rofl: