http://www.secularnewsdaily.com/2013/01/creationism-commotion-five-states-have-anti-evolution-bills-in-play/
Whatever happened to separation of church and state? Doesn't my federally provided public education follow this rule? I'm fairly sure it does. So why then, are people still attempting to ram down bills that attempt to do the exact opposite?
I'll let Bill Nye answer some of it.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/24/bill-nye-creationism-science_n_1908926.html
Creationism is religious in nature. It is not science. Of this, one cannot deny. You can view evolution whichever way you want and you can choose to believe in creationism or not, but you cannot claim it to be secular and fit for public schooling. That is what baffles me. I have yet to see a single sane person claim creationism to be not religious in nature. If anything, most of it's proponents are often seen quoting verses from the Bible in its defense.
Yet state legislatures are attempting to rephrase it as "biological intelligent design," and other poor rephrasings in order to force them into the public school systems. If we were to teach creationism as a science, we would have to give other theories of creation equal treatment. Possibly we can possibly teach the ancient Greek theory that all of existence came into being from Chaos. Teaching creationism, as said by Bill Nye can only hurt American science. It isn't science. So why then, should it receive the exact same treatment as a science?
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Partisan Pizza
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/03/papa-johns-obamacare_n_2233525.html
I'll be quite frank, I find this quite saddening. These CEO's and business men have made pizza and chicken wings a partisan choice. They have every right to state their opinions and have every right to believe whatever they want to believe. The fact that they are voicing it is simply poor sense.
They have alienated a great deal of their customer base. They are attempting to serve a side of politics along with their food on the table. It's polarizing and not good for their business at all. It frustrates me as to why they would do so. Politics itself is inherently a highly polarizing topic, why bring it to the dinner table?
Casual diners want just that, a casual dining experience without anything being marketed to them aside from maybe an extra side dish. They don't want politics. This shows in how consumers began rating the companies where such CEO's made statements much worse after they made their stance on controversial topics, such as Obamacare and gay-rights. When I go to Papa John's, Denny's or Applebee's, I don't want to fret over whether or not my money is going to a cause I don't support, or even oppose. When I go eat at Chik-fil-a, I don't want my money to go to anti-gay programs that I am unaware of. Partisan pizza isn't something that sounds appetizing, nor healthy for consumers and politics on a whole.
I'll be quite frank, I find this quite saddening. These CEO's and business men have made pizza and chicken wings a partisan choice. They have every right to state their opinions and have every right to believe whatever they want to believe. The fact that they are voicing it is simply poor sense.
They have alienated a great deal of their customer base. They are attempting to serve a side of politics along with their food on the table. It's polarizing and not good for their business at all. It frustrates me as to why they would do so. Politics itself is inherently a highly polarizing topic, why bring it to the dinner table?
Casual diners want just that, a casual dining experience without anything being marketed to them aside from maybe an extra side dish. They don't want politics. This shows in how consumers began rating the companies where such CEO's made statements much worse after they made their stance on controversial topics, such as Obamacare and gay-rights. When I go to Papa John's, Denny's or Applebee's, I don't want to fret over whether or not my money is going to a cause I don't support, or even oppose. When I go eat at Chik-fil-a, I don't want my money to go to anti-gay programs that I am unaware of. Partisan pizza isn't something that sounds appetizing, nor healthy for consumers and politics on a whole.
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