(05-06-2010 11:00 AM)I45owl Wrote:  

(05-04-2010 04:29 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  In my history, the only people who claim the bible says the earth is 6,000 years old are religious loons (like cultists) and athiests. Both have an incredibly inflexible view of the bible. One must remember that the first stories of the bible aren't historical documents, but stories "as told by" men many thousands if not millions of years later. Adam and Eve didn't leave a diary.

H-Bone - I don't want to drive this into the ground, but if you push the responsibility for all of these discussions onto atheists, you are really missing the point. The educational agenda for the state of Texas for the next 10 years - and by implication, the nation - has been set by a young-earth-creationist (after an election had already been held that made him a lame duck). To rub salt in the wound, the SOB was also a yell leader.

Setting aside the theme of the article's title for the current discussion ...

How Christian Were the Founders? - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/magazi...wanted=all Wrote:How Christian Were the Founders? - NYTimes.com

McLeroy is a robust, cheerful and inexorable man, whose personality is perhaps typified by the framed letter T on the wall of his office, which he earned as a “yell leader” (Texas A&M nomenclature for cheerleader) in his undergraduate days in the late 1960s. “I consider myself a Christian fundamentalist,” he announced almost as soon as we sat down. [He also identifies himself as a young-earth creationist who believes that the earth was created in six days, as the book of Genesis has it, less than 10,000 years ago. He went on to explain how his Christian perspective both governs his work on the state board and guides him in the current effort to adjust American-history textbooks to highlight the role of Christianity.

Seriously - should a former yell leader be trusted to make state law?

I think I equally blamed religious loons and atheists. Aggies, especially yell leaders probably qualify as loons. :-) That was probably too strong a word, and I apologize if it offended some very nice people who are ill-informed/not logical.... but certainly some are religious loons. I accused them of having a very rigid interpretation of the bible... and I stand by that.

Fair enough - you certainly did. I just wanted to put in perspective what's at stake.