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Trouble Brewing in Turkey?

Posted by Agit8r • 14 days ago • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: creationism, fundamentalism, islamist/christianist coalition?

Even in EU hopeful Turkey, fundamentalism shows a resurgence:

"...the arguments for creationism presented by some of the students came directly from the country where she was educated in the biological sciences years before -- the United States. Translated and adapted for a Muslim society, the purported proofs that Darwinism and evolution were wrong came directly from American proponents of Christian creationism and its less overtly religious offshoot, intelligent design."

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/07/AR2009110702233_2....

more:

docs.google.com/gview?a=v&q=cache:kQIhCCjiWikJ:helios.hampshire.edu/~sahCS/...

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14 days ago

Agit8r

Should this concern us?

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14 days ago

dbowles1017

What will we eat for thanksgiving then?

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1. 14 days ago
  
  Agit8r
  
  tofurkey?
2. 14 days ago
  
  dbowles1017
  
  blasphemy!
3. 14 days ago
  
  Agit8r
  
  I sure hope nobody starts a thread about whether "stuffing a turkey" is immoral
4. 14 days ago
  
  dbowles1017
  
  There is. Haven't you seen the animal sex thread?
5. 13 days ago
  
  Agit8r
  
  exactly
14 days ago

Deray28

I went to a seminar the other day and the best thing I got from it was this:

"The best argument against intelligent design is the fact that my prostate is tied around my urethra" jajajajaja

I have a Turkish friend, she is doing her PhD in microbiology in the US and she doesn't want to go back to her country because of the people now in power. Turkey is following the steps of other muslim countries and directing their population into extremism.

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1. 13 days ago
  
  Agit8r
  
  it's sad
13 days ago

Agit8r

Does this sound like a threat to national security?

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