Re: Another Pat Robertson meltdown

"On 21 Dec 2005 19:47:26 -0800, in article
<1135223246.066553.109290@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
jspaceman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx stated..."
>
>I was watching the news on the 700 Club today. The first story was
>about the Dover decision. Afterwards Pat did his usual commentary on
>the news item, it was quite hilarious:
>
>"Now the ACLU feels that they are descended from slime"
[...snip...]

And Biblical-literalists prefer being descended from dust.

Why is relationship with slime or dust any worse than being
related to Torquemada?


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---Tom S. <http://talkreason.org/articles/chickegg.cfm>
"It is not too much to say that every indication of Design in the Kosmos is so
much evidence against the Omnipotence of the Designer. ... The evidences ... of
Natural Theology distinctly imply that the author of the Kosmos worked under
limitations..." John Stuart Mill, "Theism", Part II

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