Creationists Handing Out Packets Near Public HS

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This is the first I've ever seen this at my high school, but at my middle school a bunch of Jehovah's Witnesses were handing out bibles to the people leaving school.

Anyway..where was I. Oh yes. I was walking to school round 7:20 this morning, and a friend of mine and I were handed packets by a young woman. We asked what these were, although I could tell by the cover sheet what it was. The woman said something akin to,
"This is what your biology teacher won't tell you in class."

I told her that it's illegal to be handing these out, as she was on school grounds. She blew me off, and continued handing packets to people who were walking by. As a gesture of friendliness, my friend violently tossed his packet in the trash. I saved mine, and posted it on my website.

As a finishing touch, the school cop confiscated all the creation packets and forced the creationist to leave the campus, as technically where she was standing was school grounds.

Lisa S. scanned the images for me, and now they're here for your viewing pleasure.
[HUGE amount of images, 56k beware]
http://www.skepticsrock.com/creationpacket/

All the links are clickable for the full-sized image if you can't really read it.
 
I didn't realize anyone claimed Mount Rushmore had been carved by erosion.

I guess that means creationists think that God carved it?
 
TragicMonkey said:
I didn't realize anyone claimed Mount Rushmore had been carved by erosion.
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No, but a prominent ev-bi popularizer, possibly Dawkins, I forget, specifically uses it as an example of something which was designed. It's the work of a minute to stick the word "not" in there, and whoopee, you've got a straw man.
 
And they imply that killing your relatives is a bad thing...

Those wacky creationists!
 
Dr Adequate said:
'Cos God said "Let there be rocks", and there were rocks.

Then the devil made intermediate forms.

... oh, sorry, I see. Carry on.
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See I knew all piles of rocks where "created".
they are irreductibly complex you see, take one away form the bottom and the whole structure collapses- so Goddunnit!
 
Whyatica said:
This is the first I've ever seen this at my high school, but at my middle school a bunch of Jehovah's Witnesses were handing out bibles to the people leaving school.

Anyway..where was I. Oh yes. I was walking to school round 7:20 this morning, and a friend of mine and I were handed packets by a young woman. We asked what these were, although I could tell by the cover sheet what it was. The woman said something akin to,
"This is what your biology teacher won't tell you in class."
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if you knew the answer, why bother asking the question?

Whyatica said:
I told her that it's illegal to be handing these out, as she was on school grounds.
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can you show the statute?

Whyatica said:
She blew me off,
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you discredit her for that?

Whyatica said:
and continued handing packets to people who were walking by. As a gesture of friendliness, my friend violently tossed his packet in the trash. I saved mine, and posted it on my website.[/quote
oh my. deary dear. ive never seen such bad behavior!!! that is simply shocking.

somebody needs to crank up a sister site to FStDT named non-FStDT who think they're really leet and are actually oompah loompah's.

Whyatica said:
As a finishing touch, the school cop confiscated all the creation packets and forced the creationist to leave the campus, as technically where she was standing was school grounds.
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you must have been casting about in anxiousness, looking for your friend who would join you at brokeback mountain that night.

Whyatica said:
Lisa S. scanned the images for me, and now they're here for your viewing pleasure.
[HUGE amount of images, 56k beware]
http://www.skepticsrock.com/creationpacket/

All the links are clickable for the full-sized image if you can't really read it.
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how about ur brain, that should low res should load pretty quick and simple.
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brodski said:
See I knew all piles of rocks where "created".
they are irreductibly complex you see, take one away form the bottom and the whole structure collapses- so Goddunnit!
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do you believe that you have a simple and effective sense of humor? or would you describe your sense of humor as complex and savvy?
 
Riddick said:
do you believe that you have a simple and effective sense of humor? or would you describe your sense of humor as complex and savvy?
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usually unnecessarily convoluted and ineffective, why do you ask?
 
My Lord, I visited fishdontwalk.com and I have been converted. Puh-raise Jaysus!!!! I am saved!!!!!!:rolleyes:

Seriously though, good stuff Whyatica. I'm glad creationists are out there exposing there own idiocy, kind of makes our work easy.
 
Thanks for posting that, Whyatica. It would be really funny, if it wasn't so scary that some people actually believe it. I'm glad you had them kicked off the school grounds. Now, I have to admit, if they were standing on a public sidewalk across the street from the school, they would be fully within their rights to hand it out. But not on school grounds. Regardless of Riddick's doubts, nearly everywhere (or maybe just "everywhere") in the US it is illegal to be on school grounds if you do not have official business being there.
 
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slickcat said:
My Lord, I visited fishdontwalk.com and I have been converted.
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Wow, a creationist site with an ignorant error in biology in the actual name of the website.

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Dr Adequate said:
Wow, a creationist site with an ignorant error in biology in the actual name of the website.

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well, I also doubt that the answer is in Genesis?

Personally i think they have some kind of "who can get it the most wrong" contest. They really are pushing the boundaries of human ignorance.
 
brodski said:
well, I also doubt that the answer is in Genesis?

Personally i think they have some kind of "who can get it the most wrong" contest. They really are pushing the boundaries of human ignorance.
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I'm beginning to think these misconceptions are deliberate, intended to make scientists angry and behave in an un-Christianlike manner...
 
Thanks. I'll check out the pages in greater detail when I get on a high-speed network again.

I am currently listening to an 18 hour lecture series about science up through the 20th century and it's evolution from the 19th century. It is an amazing look at how science has made progressive steps forward, constantly building on and refining the ideas of past research. I was amazed at just what a handle 'we' have gotten on our world and place in the universe in what amounts to just 150 years.

Juxtaposing that scientific information against the type of thing often seen in pamphlets like Whyatica posted, it's almost too ridiculous to comment on - except that an alarming number of people still believe that science is wrong on a vast number of issues.

I can't believe the number of people I talk to who don't understand the concept of evolution through random genetic mutations and natural selection over BILLIONS of years, instead choosing to believe that the evolution mechanism is explained by "One day something doesn't have an arm, the next day it does." or "One day a human was born from a monkey"..

As stupid as this kind of literature is to you and me, it hits the target of its intended audience like a torpedo - They actually are primed by ignorance and willing to fall for it. Good job, Whyatica. Fight these bastages at every turn! :)
 
Riddick said:
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can you show the statute?

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California Penal Code 627.2.
No outsider shall enter or remain on school grounds during
school hours without having registered with the principal or
designee, except to proceed expeditiously to the office of the
principal or designee for the purpose of registering. ...
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from here
 
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c4ts said:
I'm beginning to think these misconceptions are deliberate, intended to make scientists angry and behave in an un-Christianlike manner...
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so what you're stying is, Funides are acting as agent provocateurs for Satan? Tempting and tricking scientists and other rational people into sinning?

it's all so clear now :)
 
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