Onward Christian Soldiers

I know I haven't posted in a while but I just got this sent to me so I figured I would share it with everyone else out there who might not have:

http://skepticblog.org/2009/06/23/onward-christian-soldiers/

Randomness

I know I haven't posted in a while but as I said earlier I would probably be busy over the next few weeks and I have. This time is actually rare for at least another week so don't expect the posts to be rolling out anytime soon but anyway onto the post. This post is going to be pretty random I came across some things on conservapedia I want to address but it should still be a pretty short post.

The first one is this:

Homeschooling has
increased 74% from 1999 and 36% from 2003, according to a report recently
released by the U.S. Department of Education last month. Reasons cited include
"to provide religious or moral instruction" (36%), "concern about school
environment" (21%), and "dissatisfaction with academic instruction" (17%).

I do not like that people are shying away from schooling in general but I will agree there are areas in this country that need a serious overhaul in the education systme so that is a good enough reason to pull people out. I really don't have any problem with people being homeschooled for the most part but it was with the first reason that most people are homescooled, "to provide religious or moral instruction." While I have no problem with people believing in God it needs to be a clear destinction between what is faith and what is actually known and trying to teach both religion and science/history at home blurs the line but I guess that is why people do that because they don't think that science is right. The article they are talking about is: http://www.hslda.org/docs/link.asp?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ledger-enquirer.com%2Fnews%2Fstory%2F742241.html&

Next:

Another tragedy from unattended video game playing as a
11-year-old Mississippi boy accidentally
killed his 9-year-old brother with a shotgun blast Tuesday as the two
struggled over the gun after arguing about a video game, authorities said. "The
younger brother allegedly got mad because he got beat at some video games and
got the gun," Marshall County Sheriff Kenny Dickerson said. [28]

No this is not a tragedy from unattedned video game playing it is a tragedy caused by piss poor parenting. I have no people owning guns but if you are you need to teach your kids what they are used for and you also need to make sure that they are scured exceptionally well especially if you have children.

And finally:

The killer at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum,
James von Brunn, was a white supremacist and also an evolutionary racist. James von
Brunn wrote that "Only the strong survive. Cross breeding whites with species on
the evolutionary scale diminishes the white gene-pool while increasing the
number of physiologically, psychologically, and behaviorally deprived
mongrels."[15] The evolutionist Charles Darwin was also an evolutionary racist. The shooter, James von Brunn, also
appears to have had close ties to neo-Nazis and his ex-wife said his
anti-semitism and racist hate "ate him alive like a cancer". [16][17] Adolf Hitler was also a
rabid evolutionary racist.[18][19]

This, the shooting, is a tragedy but what they are trying to do here is just sick. Racists use evolution to suit their views the same way that conservapedia is using this shooting to suit their's. Evolution does not support killing those of other "races" from your own. As a scientific theory evolution only states that this is what happens in nature what we do to ourselves is not what nature is doing to us. Nature did not act upon that gun a crazy person did that is what it comes down to. I am sure that this guy "believed" in gravity as well so should we say that all people who believe in gravity are racist? All of these arguments have been addressed much better than I can do it and will be many more times but I just wanted to point out what was going on.

As always leave any feedback you want.

Argh really?

Ok so conservapedia linked to this article today and I figured I would pass it on but it is bad I might take some time to go over it later but don't hold out much hope http://creation.com/age-of-the-earth

SEAVP post #2

You are probably noticing a theme here right now but I came across these today put together by the host of SEAVP this year Dr. Alton Dooley from the Virginia Museum of Natural History, they are summaries of the days events so anyone who was interested can find out more about what was presented at this years conference.

Day 1: http://web.me.com/dooleyclan/Site_2/Blog/Entries/2009/5/29_SEAVP.html

Days 2 & 3: http://web.me.com/dooleyclan/Site_2/Blog/Entries/2009/5/30_SEAVP_Days_2_and_3.html

Enjoy and as always if you come across some more crazy creationist stuff on the web pass it along I am always looking for a good article to refute.