What is this “stuff” that expands? Shall we return to the ether? You want to talk abour religion, cosmology comes close. What is more fantastic, theism or belief in an infinite number of universes a la Everett? As for the origin of life, many believe life evolved. However evolution says nothing about the origin of life and the science indicates that by our current understanding it is impossible for life to spontanenously emerge yet this is exactly what many people, including scientists, believe. It is interesting to note that Francis Crick abandoned any idea of the same and opted for our planet being seeded by a dying civilisation.

Now distinguish science and religion.

PS: Creationism is unmitigated piffle.

GMB I think the term you are looking for is ‘cheese-eating surrender monkey’.

Don’t be playing the victim.

Pull yourself together.

See this is what I’m ralking about.

This avalaunche of sighing and yawning is just disgraceful.

Because it acts as a white-wash and IQ-reducer.

From a standing start of partial-redistribution near-minimal government….. (I’ll define that as minimal government financed in such a way as to make it easy for the poor… the partial-redistribution part perhaps even including a small socialist Negative Income Tax)….

….. From that starting point the addition of public education is a socialist move.

We might like to call it 5 degrees of socialism in order to compare it to a voucher system.

And in comparison to the hatefully compulsive public education that might be 1 or 2 degrees of socialism by comparison.

If you did it Jasons way it would be 2 or 3 degrees because if they didn’t fit the cookie-cutter mold the school would lose the ability to cash vouchers.

If you did it my way its only an interim shock-absorber thing anyway.

And I’d let the voucher be cashed into educational CD-Roms or a lap-top or books either first or second-hand for home-schoolers or for people going to a cheap school.

Then that latter way of doing things we might say is 1 degree of socialism by comparison to public education which we are giving 5.

But even then its likely to be just churning.

Where is the money coming from. Its has to be coming from:

1. consumer spending of rich people.

2. consumer spending of less rich people.

3. Capital accumulaton

4. Worsening of the trade deficit.

5. The inflation tax.

Only number one is even in keeping with the supposed goals of the voucher promoters.

I don’t get it.

And its not me thats falling down in the anaylsis here. Its them.

Where are you guys coming off the beam here?

Could it be MACROMANCY?

Genesis 19:8
‘Look, I have two virgin daughters. Please let me bring them out to you. You may do whatever you please to them, just do not do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.’

Those Sodomites deserved whatever they got after turning down Lot’s extremely generous offer.

The poor girls then had to fuck their dad later on because all the men in their town were gay.

“You are, I suspect, a naturally jealous, borderline sociopathic personality. The cuddly environmentalism …. ”

You are very much an Old Testament Christian, aren’t you CL. No namby-pamby gay Jesus modesty, meekness or turning the other cheek for you.

And you wonder why so many now despise your hateful hypocritical creed.

Darwin did indeed start training to be an anglican priest.
His knowledge of the bible showed he was in the perfect denomination.
These days he would be a natural for the Uniting denomination.