Comments by padster1976

Comment #18969 by padster1976 on January 24, 2007 at 4:21 am

For more bigoted reasoning, check out this on the BBC....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6293115.stm

Its a deplorable piece of work especially from the BBC. Where is the view from the other side?

252. Former exec in Irvine says he was fired over religion

Comment #18962 by padster1976 on January 24, 2007 at 3:11 am

the old adage - two sides to every story! And its always somewhere in the middle.

IS the states the same as the UK in that the tribunal is open to publc scrutiny?

It also depends on what employment law is like. If they haven't followed the legal minimum procedure, they will be liable. That's in the UK, the states? I don't know.

Wait and see what happens.

253. Britons unconvinced on evolution

Comment #18848 by padster1976 on January 23, 2007 at 7:42 am

Dear everybody,

this is a duff piece of reporting.

Here's my interpretation....

Over half of britons UNDERSTAND and except evolution. = MAJORITY!

39% think there is a god (note they were unchallenged and we don't know how the ?'s were posed)

48% (MAJORITY!) UNDERSTOOD evolution and hence it's beauty in explaining the way variation and selection produce evolution.

(Note that creationism got an explanation at this point and evolution didn't - this is duff journalism and slants the entire piece in a biased way)

69% Wanted evolution in the classroom.

Now look at the report at this point. I'm thinking that the author may have leanings towards a biblical view - i.e stooopid.

44% + 41% + 69% = 154%!!! Duh!

Just ignore it - file it under fiction.

254. How Old is the Grand Canyon? Park Service Won't Say

Comment #16889 by padster1976 on January 9, 2007 at 12:35 pm

Hey guys, the website does go some way to saying how old the canyon is - see

http://www.nps.gov/grca/naturescience/naturalfeaturesandecosystems.htm

&

http://www.nps.gov/search/query-meta?v%3aproject=NPS&v%3afile=viv_T9I0LT&v%3aframe=list&v%3astate=root%7cN40&id=N40&action=list&

Hopefully they work. If not do what I did - put 'age' in the search field and see what happens. For some reason the actual links mention something about 1.8 billion years but when you go to the oage, there is no mention of it. Spooky!

Long live the reason revolution.

PS - I've been denounced by my parents for giving a shit. 'Arsehole waster' according to my dad. Nice guy. Guess who's NOT the religious one!