UPDATE: HERE IS A COPY OF THE MEMO FROM BEN BRIDGES provided by SciGuy
Rep. Ben Bridges, a Republican from Georgia, is under attack for a memo distributed under his name calling for a ban on evolution in public schools. What’s interesting is that the memo called evolution a religious deception stemming from an ancient Jewish sect. Furthermore the memo states that evolution is “a deception that is causing incalculable harm to every student and every truth-loving citizen.â€
“Indisputable evidence — long hidden but now available to everyone — demonstrates conclusively that so-called ‘secular evolution science’ is the Big-Bang 15-billion-year alternate ‘creation scenario’ of the Pharisee Religion. This scenario is derived concept-for-concept from Rabbinic writings in the mystic ‘holy book’ Kabbala dating back at least two millennia.â€
Bridges denies having written the memo, but a constituent Marshall Hall says that he wrote it with Bridges’ approval. Hall is the president of the Georgia-based Fair Education Foundation; an organization that seeks to show evolution is a myth. His wife Bonnie has served as Bridges’ campaign manager since 1996.
Bridges admitted to talking with Hall about legislation that would ban evolution in Georgia classrooms. Bridges claims that the memo reflects Halls views, but said he doesn’t necessarily disagree with them. He added:
“I agree with it more than I would the Big Bang Theory or the Darwin Theory. I am convinced that rather than risk teaching a lie why teach anything?â€
The memo was sent to lawmakers in Texas, California, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.
It is important to note that the memo directs readers to this site: www.fixedearth.com. What’s so special about that site? Well it claims that the Earth doesn’t rotate, nor does it go around the Sun either.
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February 16th, 2007 at 11:54 am
Wait a second, how does the sun and moon rise and set if nothing is moving? (if anyone has the patience to read that site, I’d love to hear how they explain that one off)
February 16th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
I’ve been waiting for something like this…they are no longer satisfied with attacking Darwin, they have now moved on to Galileo/Copernicus! Hopefully they’ll start to oppose gravity next. “If you believe in God you can fly! It’s only the devil and those evil scientists keeping you on the ground!”
February 16th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
Even when I was a Christian that site would have made my brain hurt. Now that I am free of the whole Christian myth entirely I am going to need at least 800mg Ibuprofen to quell the pounding in my brain.
Let’s leave the whole going against centuries of scientific observation with provable results aside for a moment. This whole page is to “prove” the Bible “the infallible word of God.” Really? A book translated so many times we have lost count, each one leaving out or changing text for whatever suited the commissioning king is infallible? Then bring back in that they blame the Jews for making modern science observe a round, moving, evolving world. Those Jesus killing Pharisees sure knew how to tamper with the results of scientific experiments 2000 years later. And of course those geosynchronous satellites are a myth too. Your DirectTV comes from God.
Skip the Motrin, I am going to need a horse tranquilizer for that one.
February 16th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
*Begin Transmission*
It’s just simple misdirection; they are keeping you looking at the idiot over there, while they steal your freedoms from over here.
Religion, like Government, is a farce; all these people beleive, is that they can keep you distracted with moral/political “atrocities” long enough to steal all yer wealth. We have nothing left people; no gold, no real wealth, just credit and debt.
All this seperation and mistrust between people is crazy! We are all one! Why we let people label themselves or others as Democrats or “Christian” is beyond me.
*End Transmission*
February 16th, 2007 at 1:18 pm
Well, at least he’s not my District’s representative. Not that my district was doing much better. I think you will all remember from the news the city of Marietta putting warning labels on biology books.
February 16th, 2007 at 2:02 pm
Shaze, you make a great point. It is all a smoke amd mirrors game to keep our attention away from the actual trick.
February 16th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
Sadly, this person, in a position of power, is a perfect example of why we have so much war and violence going on. If we could somehow replace every “true believer” in this countries leadership positions we could probably do some real good. I am sickened to the core that I have people making decisions that affect my life that shouldn’t be allowed to decide what they eat for dinner. And yet here we are. I wouldn’t care one iota what these idiots though if they could possibly keep it to their damn selves, but their cult requires them to both push it on me and to pass laws based solely on the word of their mythological god.
Some day, we will, as a people, throw of the yoke of religious voodoo magic. Well, that is if religion doesn’t destroy us all before then. You think I am being melodramatic? Just look at the middle east and tell me it can’t happen.
February 16th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
I checked out that site. Either it’s a joke or people are about two thousand years further back in logical reasoning than I thought. Either way, it’s depressing.
February 16th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
Not read the site (fixedearth.com) yet, but it is completely valid to claim that the earth is stationary and everything else moves about it, from a scientific point of view. Einstein’s principle of relativity allows you to pick any point as a reference frame. The real question is what is it stationary with respect to.
February 16th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
You make a good point, but in the site they bash Einstein and relativity too. It’s in the “What if?”s section.
February 16th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
Hmmm… Maybe Foucault’s pendulum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucault_pendulum) should be shown to them? I mean, it’s a pretty obvious (and hard to dispute!) example of a dynamic proof that the world turns…
But then again, it’s not like these people have not seen proof of this before and ignored it, right?
February 16th, 2007 at 6:01 pm
I have always wondered why I didn’t feel constantly dizzy.
February 16th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
Does anything scream crazy quite like the use of alternating font type, sizes and color combined with random highlighting. From what I could glean from the parts that don’t give me eye strain, this guy’s argument jumps around more than a jackalo with a meth habit. He also evidently thinks that god pilfered his engineering techniques from a chinese toy factory.
February 16th, 2007 at 7:49 pm
“Does anything scream crazy quite like the use of alternating font type, sizes and color combined with random highlighting.”
Interesting comment. I have noticed that a lot of these type of websites use simmilar format. Must be something to that…
February 16th, 2007 at 9:08 pm
It’s to hide the fnords. If it’s too obvious, you can see them… So they add a variety of confusing fonts and such to make it less obvious…
February 16th, 2007 at 9:33 pm
It’s a rant. Damn those scientists and their evidence.
I’m not going to start picking holes in this (otherwise I’ll be here a while). I’m just going to sit here and laugh. A lot.
February 16th, 2007 at 9:59 pm
UPDATE: HERE IS A COPY OF THE MEMO FROM BEN BRIDGES
February 16th, 2007 at 10:40 pm
Actually, even from a relativistic view point, the fact is time has aberrations pertaining with acceleration. A stationary Earth would mean quite a speed from far out stars (actually quite faster than light) without distortion…
But, it’s not like those guys would take a scientific proof, eh?
February 17th, 2007 at 4:40 am
I dug around on the site a little bit more. He describes Satan as a:
“non-air breathing life form–is a marvelously complex computerized bionic robot created with no truth in his hard drive”
He also discusses how the Communists invented fake mathematics to justify their lies about the universe.
After reading that much of the site I started feeling nauseous and had to lie down for a while.
February 17th, 2007 at 10:14 am
I just can’t get over the fact that a leader, a well paid leader, in this country actually used that website to frigging justify a law. The guy should be homeless and pushing a shopping cart instead.
February 17th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
People interested in developments might also like to follow The Slacktivist’s coverage. (Actually, that blog could be easily a sister site to Religious Freaks, come to think of it.)
February 18th, 2007 at 8:57 am
I thought Religion was an Evolution of Deception.
February 18th, 2007 at 10:27 am
Wow!
I had no IDEA this stuf was out there in the political systems of Georgia, Texas, and EVEN OHIO !!!??
Almost makes me PROUD (and greatly relieved) that for once,
KANSAS wasn’t involved!
Clif from Kansas
February 18th, 2007 at 11:48 am
How long until a ‘the earth IS flat’ website comes along?
Place your bets now.
February 18th, 2007 at 12:34 pm
Who do these web site intend to influence but the utterly idiotic? These people make the Far Side and Bizarro a reality.
February 18th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
> How long until a ‘the earth IS flat’ website comes along?
> Place your bets now.
Oh they appear to have been around for quite a while:
websites:
http://www.alaska.net/~clund/e_djublonskopf/Flatearthsociety.htm
http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/
info:
http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/fe-scidi.htm
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/flatearth.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth_Society
February 18th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
Dammit! You beat me to it hokan.
February 18th, 2007 at 10:44 pm
I took a look at this site…what a bunch of B.S. WHo is this Marshall Hall and what qualifies him to try an debunk the likes of Einstein, Hawking, Newton, etc.?
He posted an ill though out reasoning (rambling is more correct) why the Geosynchronous satellites are not really going around the earth (since the earth doesn’t move). He describes the fact that he can see something as SCIENTIFIC FACT. It is an observable fact. The fact that I can see light shining off the moon doesn’t mean it is a scientific fact that the light is produced by the moon.
My point is this. This group of nuts are dangerous idiots who will not be happy until they ensure everyone believes like they do.
February 18th, 2007 at 11:06 pm
I am a christen i know the earth moves. I know We orbit the sun and the moon. Just reminding you that one of us doesn’t speak for all of us. If i was going to make a case for god in this manner i would base it more on human perception what we scientificly see, feel, touch and do and how our brain interprets it not try to twist obvious truths. It’s feel wierd agreeing but yeah this ones bogus
February 18th, 2007 at 11:07 pm
Opps we orbit the sun and the moon orbits us got a little ahead of myself
February 18th, 2007 at 11:17 pm
http://www.alaska.net/~clund/e_djublonskopf/Flatearthsociety.htm
This site is actually a parody. You can tell by the humor in the disclaimer, but more importantly from the humor in the “Current Events” page:
February 19th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
Don’t know how I could have forgotten:
http://www.timecube.com
There is no more to be said.
February 20th, 2007 at 12:33 am
“No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.”
JASCHA HEIFETZ
July 13th, 2008 at 1:24 am
why do all of the creationist websites have to look so horrendous and be so hard on the eyes, with little or no layout to the page other than the occasional smattering of unrelated images?
July 19th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
I don’t know who is dumber, Bridges or the people who voted for him.