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Group: nashville.general · Group Profile
Author: David MoffittDavid Moffitt Date: Sep 2, 2008 20:03
"Cyrus Afzali" wrote in message
news:imjqb4lncvaf8vk2bmhbgoqlns79njbcb2@4ax.com...
| On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 09:12:17 -0500, "Kent Finnell"
| bellsouth.net> wrote:
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| >
| >"Cyrus Afzali" wrote in message
| >news:s9eqb4t04mah3sg2fba7i670uaonj5e2ju@4ax.com...
| >> On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 23:46:50 -0500, "Kent Finnell"
| >> bellsouth.net> wrote:
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| >> No special powers are needed, Kent. It's not typically
| >> Democrats that
| >> want to try to ignore evolution or give us things like
| >> intelligent
| >> design, it's Republicans. Republicans have over and over
| >> espoused
| >> policies that put theology over science. Sorry, but that's
| >> the fact.
| >
| >Don't look now, but it's Darwin's THEORY of Evolution, not
| >Darwin's LAW of Evolution. Personally I think it is most
| >probable, but it still isn't scientific fact. Intelligent
| >design is also a theory, but it does carry less weight than
| >Darwin. There are holes in both that simply won't let them
| >hold water.
|
| Intelligent design isn't even a scientific-based theory that has any
| kind of wide acceptance. For the record, I know the various levels on
| the ladder on the way to establishing a scientific law.
|
| It's true that evolution is not a law, but there are far more concrete
| things that one can point to in explaining its relevance than
| intelligent design.
|
| >>
| >> Where have I ever said I think abortion is better than
| >> having a kid
| >> late in life? Ever? Really, do some research and show me,
| >> genius. See,
| >> you purport to know everything about everybody. Well,
| >> let's see some
| >> proof of that idiotic statement.
| >
| >That was based on your attitude, i.e. "it's a bit shelfish
| >and does say something about you when you keep having
| >children into an age when medical science says your chances
| >for trouble skyrockets."
|
| That has nothing to do with advocating abortion. I wholeheartedly
| believe it's a selfish act to have children late in life because it's
| a medical fact that maladies like Down's Syndrome are far more likely.
What if she got pregnant accidently(and I suspect she did) she chose to have
the baby and love it rather than kill it like an excess puppy in the litter.
"My sense of purpose is gone! I have no idea who I AM!"
"Oh, my God... You've.. You've turned him into a DEMOCRAT!" -- Doonesbury
| >>
| >> What I'm saying is that Palin was put up as a "pin up" for
| >> the
| >> Christian right and one of the things they love about her
| >> is she had
| >> this kid late in life that she knew was going to be born
| >> with Down's
| >> Syndrome. I don't judge people based on the choices they
| >> make when
| >> they find out something like that before birth, as that's
| >> an intensely
| >> personal decision. However, I don't believe someone
| >> pushing the
| >> envelope of child-bearing age and going through with a
| >> troubled birth
| >> is necessarily a hero worthy of VP either.
| >
| >You don't judge people based on their choices? You just
| >contradicted yourself.
|
| Didn't say I never judge someone's choices. I said clearly and plainly
| that I can see where some things are acceptable for some and not for
| others, such as aborting a child that you know will have many, many
| difficulties in life. Not saying I would do it, but I've not had to
| make that choice either.
|
| Fact is, Palin is being made a hero in the family-values circuit based
| on her choice to go through with this kid and I'm saying pushing the
| boundaries of science to have a kid that late in life is no heroic
| act. To put it as plain as I can, I only take issue with these kinds
| of actions when people act as if it gives them some legitimacy that
| just doesn't hold up.
|
|
| >> Hank Aaron and M.C. Hammer aren't on the taxpayer dole, as
| >> politicians
| >> are. Her resume is very, very thin by modern standards.
| >> Honestly, to
| >> criticize people like Gore who actually did something
| >> before becoming
| >> VP and then think people like Palin are qualified just
| >> shows how open
| >> minded you are.
| >
| >She has been a school teacher and has worked along side her
| >husband as a commercial fisher. Most of Gore's "somethings"
| >were handed to him because of his father ... the "reporter's
| >job" at the Tennessean, the House seat, and then the Senate
| >seat. Oh, yeah, he "wormed" tobacco on the family farm.
| >Palin has accomplished her "somethings" by the sweat of her
| >brow, intelligence and grit.
|
| Those somethings that Gore got were nothing different than Bush Jr.
| have gotten. Hell, Bush Jr. wasn't even elected by people outside of
| Texas for anything until he ran for President. People make fun of how
| Gore was raised in Washington, but it's fine that Bush had never been
| out of the country before he became president. People say Gore was
| handed things because of his father, but Bush Jr. would have gotten
| nothing were it not for his family connections.
|
| As far as Palin's somethings, a commercial fisherman isn't a job that
| qualifies someone to be one of the leaders of the free world.
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