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Posted by Zonk on Sunday February 12, 2006 @07:19PM from the we-love-you-unca-darwin dept.

kthejoker writes "Today is the 197th anniversary of the great biologist Charles Darwin's birth. In response, some 450 Christian churches are celebrating Darwin's birth, saying, 'Darwin`s theory of biological evolution is compatible with faith and that Christians have no need to choose between religion and science.' There's also an interesting perspective on Darwinism and Christianity in the San Jose Mercury News."

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Happy Birthday Darwin... (Score:2, Funny)

by binaryspiral ( 784263 ) writes: on Sunday February 12, 2006 @07:28PM (#14701858)

I still have a Flying Spaghetti Monster badge on my car though...

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Reminds me of The Naked Gun... (Score:3, Funny)

by tyrione ( 134248 ) writes: on Sunday February 12, 2006 @07:29PM (#14701867) Homepage

Blind Faith standing over Skepticism and to save face as the outline of the body of Truth lies floating in the Bay the reponse can only be...

"There's nothing to see here...nothing to see."

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Doonesbury? (Score:5, Funny)

by Pi_0's don't shower ( 741216 ) writes: <ethan@isp.northw ... u ['est' in gap]> on Sunday February 12, 2006 @07:31PM (#14701875) Homepage Journal

This somehow reminds me of a man going to the Doctor's office:

Doc: Well, I'm afraid you have tuberculosis. I need to know, are you a creationist?
Patient: What does that have to do with anything?
D: Well, I could give you the drugs that would cure Tuberculosis as it was discovered in 1937, or the modern drugs that treat the disease as it has evolved into today.
P: What's so great about the modern drugs?
D: They're intelligently designed...

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Re:And in other news... (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday February 12, 2006 @07:34PM (#14701886)

How about the idiots who, for example, think Bush is comparable to Hitler?

Of course he's "comparable" to Hitler: It is possible to compare Bush to Hitler: Bush is immensely less charismatic, competent or intelligent than Hitler.

Brought to you by the British campaign to eliminate idiotic American misuse of the word "comparable".

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Re:standing up against the fundies.. (Score:3, Funny)

by rjshields ( 719665 ) writes: on Sunday February 12, 2006 @07:48PM (#14701971)

nothing else could turn as many people away from the whole idea of religion so much as a generation of frothing-at-the-mouth zealots fighting each other and anyone disagreeing with their inflexible, warped view of the world.

Agreed, and well put. In the same way, people will be put off Islam by the fundamentalists burning embassies because someone dared mock their religion.

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Re:And in other news... (Score:5, Funny)

by TallMatthew ( 919136 ) writes: on Sunday February 12, 2006 @07:49PM (#14701975)

Evolution leading to complex organisms is at least tricky to understand . How about the idiots who, for example, think Bush is comparable to Hitler? That's just as stupid as not believing in evolution, or believing the earth is flat, or whatever. We're surrounded every day by idiots who believe in bizarre things
I believe that Bush is comparable to Hitler, evolution is still an iffy theory (though creationism is ludicrous), the world isn't flat and that you are, quite clearly, an idiot.
How's that for bizarre?

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Re:And in other news... (Score:5, Funny)

by rjshields ( 719665 ) writes: on Sunday February 12, 2006 @08:01PM (#14702022)

We're surrounded every day by idiots ... I drive an SUV

Point well made :-)

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Holy fuck! Call in the Mythbusters! (Score:5, Funny)

by CyricZ ( 887944 ) writes: on Sunday February 12, 2006 @08:21PM (#14702142)

Can a man live inside of a fish for three days? Was Eve fashioned out of Adam's rib?

Those sound like the kinds of questions that Adam and Jamie, the Mythbusters, need to be called in to answer!

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Re:Doonesbury? (Score:5, Funny)

by teslar ( 706653 ) writes: on Sunday February 12, 2006 @08:37PM (#14702217)

This in turn reminds me of a French comic strip I saw years ago somewhere... I tried googling, but couldn't find it... anyway, it had three frames and went like this:

1st frame: A guy is giving a presentation to the reader, with a slide projector screen behind him. He says: "God created Man in His image."

2nd frame: shows the picture of a caveman

3rd frame: Guy says "then man evolved. As for God, we don't know."

I liked it a lot :)

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Re:WTF? (Score:5, Funny)

by Spy der Mann ( 805235 ) writes: <spydermann.slash ... m ['mai' in gap]> on Sunday February 12, 2006 @08:55PM (#14702302) Homepage Journal

Churches...churches where a Bible is actually *used* will not take this position.

I think you misspelled "abused". :)

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Re:And in other news... (Score:5, Funny)

by jrockway ( 229604 ) * writes: <jon-nospam@jrock.us> on Sunday February 12, 2006 @08:55PM (#14702304) Homepage Journal

> And how do you know the parent poster is American and not British, Egyptian, or Chinese?

Because his sig says, and I quote, "I drive an SUV -- and I'm actually pretty proud of the fact." :)

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Re:Holy fuck! Call in the Mythbusters! (Score:3, Funny)

by TubeSteak ( 669689 ) writes: on Sunday February 12, 2006 @09:10PM (#14702386) Journal

The immaculate conception.

A: What is a Holy fuck?

Alex Trebek appreciates that I put it in the form of a question.

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Re:Christianity and Microsoft? - Embrace and Exten (Score:5, Funny)

by FhnuZoag ( 875558 ) writes: on Sunday February 12, 2006 @09:16PM (#14702415)

If anything, Christianity is more like Linux:

So when will it be ready for the desktop?

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Re:Sigh (Score:4, Funny)

by Eightyford ( 893696 ) writes: on Monday February 13, 2006 @12:48AM (#14703477) Homepage

This matters? Talking about religion is like talking about Star Wars vs. Star Trek - it's completely detached from reality, and only done by pedantic nerds.

Then it is news for nerds.

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Re:Happy Birthday Darwin... (Score:4, Funny)

by schnitzi ( 243781 ) writes: on Monday February 13, 2006 @01:37AM (#14703652) Homepage

I have a Flying Spaghetti Monster eating a Jesus fish eating a Darwin fish.

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Re:Holy fuck! Call in the Mythbusters! (Score:3, Funny)

by jc42 ( 318812 ) writes: on Monday February 13, 2006 @09:42AM (#14705279) Homepage Journal

Was Eve fashioned out of Adam's rib?

Obviously, what God^Wthe Intellient Designer did as to remove a stem cell from the rib's marrow, delete the Y chromasome, duplicate the X chromosome, and implant the resulting cell into an appropriate womb (any large ape's would do).

Though somehow, I suspect that not all Christian fundamentalists would agree with this scenario.

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