but he said he was a member of the family that owns the ground on which the billboard stands. He said the family wants it removed.

A man using a chain saw to trim a tree about 50 yards north of the sign declined to give his name,

If yas own the land, cutz down de sign; stewpid.

"Evolution is not a theory. It's a fact," said John H. Henson, a biology professor at Dickinson College in Carlisle. "Nothing in biology makes sense other than in the light of evolution."

But See, they probably make money in RENT from the sign owner and didn't think to have a say over content of the billboard...so now they have to choose between money or ideals (their own censorship)?

It's amazing to see how some Christians are doing a complete turn around and claiming that evolution and science in general are now proof of God at work. I'm all for it because if enough people do the same, then maybe we can drop the silly notion of teaching creationism in schools and getting on with the much needed job of teaching our children something that will take them ahead, not back.

Soap box 2.

It's amazing to see how some Christians are doing a complete turn around and claiming that evolution and science in general are now proof of God at work. I'm all for it because if enough people do the same, then maybe we can drop the silly notion of teaching creationism in schools and getting on with the much needed job of teaching our children something that will take them ahead, not back.

Not all Christians were anti-evolution to begin with. Dr. Kenneth Miller was one of the scientists speaking against the ID crowd in the court. He is a Christian yet saw no conflict between his religious faith and his scientific research. Belief is not the enemy of reason.

That's probably true. It causes signs to be in places where they just don't belong.

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Thank you for pointing that out. Sometimes I think some factions enjoy promulgating the idea that all Christians are ignorant, anti-science blockheads, since it adds fuel to their fire.

Thank you for pointing that out. Sometimes I think some factions enjoy promulgating the idea that all Christians are ignorant, anti-science blockheads, since it adds fuel to their fire.

Faith, in this case, is the enemy of reason and rational thinking.

There is a direct correlation between education/IQ and belief in myth.

My favorite story about mythoholism is about Kurt Wise who was mentioned in Richard Dawkin's The God Delusion. Kurt is highly educated in the sciences and has a high IQ. One day he decided to go through the Bible and literally cut out everything that he knew not to be true. After many months he ended up with a real "holey" book. The book was in tatters. He was confronted with a choice...

http://www.baptiststandard.com/index.php?o...0&Itemid=53

http://tinyurl.com/cxg5sf

To me, it's unbelievable that a person this highly educated in the sciences BELIEVES that the earth/universe is 6,000 years old. Faith, in this case, is the enemy of reason and rational thinking.

Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other elements of this world, about the motion and orbit of the stars and even their size and relative positions, about the predictable eclipses of the sun and moon, the cycles of the years and the seasons, about the kinds of animals, shrubs, stones, and so forth, and this knowledge he hold to as being certain from reason and experience. Now, it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics; and we should take all means to prevent such an embarrassing situation, in which people show up vast ignorance in a Christian and laugh it to scorn. The shame is not so much that an ignorant individual is derided, but that people outside the household of faith think our sacred writers held such opinions, and, to the great loss of those for whose salvation we toil, the writers of our Scripture are criticized and rejected as unlearned men. If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven, when they think their pages are full of falsehoods and on facts which they themselves have learnt from experience and the light of reason? Reckless and incompetent expounders of Holy Scripture bring untold trouble and sorrow on their wiser brethren when they are caught in one of their mischievous false opinions and are taken to task by those who are not bound by the authority of our sacred books. For then, to defend their utterly foolish and obviously untrue statements, they will try to call upon Holy Scripture for proof and even recite from memory many passages which they think support their position, although they understand neither what they say nor the things about which they make assertion.