Comments on: Who will exorcise McCain’s choice for VP?

By: rants.psychoticpineapples.com » Tea Bags? Really?

rants.psychoticpineapples.com » Tea Bags? Really? — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:51:34 +0000

[...] read the bill, what are the specific parts that you have issue with? We all know that Bobby Jindal (amateur exorcist and professional creationist) had issues with that damn Volcano monitoring (because money that is going to be spent to pay [...]

By: Republican party still shilling antiscience? | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:33:08 +0000

[...] Republican "rebuttal" to the President’s speech yesterday. Yes, that Bobby Jindal: amateur exorcist, creationist, doomer-of-Louisiana. He is obviously making a run for 2012, though how well advised [...]

By: Jindal dooms Louisiana | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

Jindal dooms Louisiana | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 05:15:33 +0000

[...] their chickens are starting to come back to roost. At the time, Governor (and amateur exorcist) Jindal was warned that putting a jack-booted heel to the neck of science would not be without [...]

By: Louisiana: even more doomed | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

Louisiana: even more doomed | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:18:07 +0000

[...] year, when creationist/exorcist Governor of Louisiana Bobby Jindahl signed the creationist-enabling academic freedom bill into law, [...]

By: David Greenberg

David Greenberg — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:36:50 +0000

I responded to the Parker op ed piece via today’s Letters section of the Cincinnati Enquirer (below). As someone who lived in Louisiana for 14 years, the mind set of the natives there set them apart from most of the mid-south section of the country. Just ask them!

Kathleen Parker in her column of 07/24/2008 in the Enquirer, comparing Romney and Jindal as McCain’s potential presidential running mates in November, made some very interesting points for both. In it she contrasted Romney’s experience and Jindal’s youth and high intellect. Unfortunately for Jindal, however, one must question the intelligence of his recent decision to sign into Louisiana law the bill to support the teaching of Intelligent Design, i.e. Creationism, as an alternative to Evolution in the State’s secular school system. This was a point however, that Ms. Parker failed to mention.

By: tpeterson

tpeterson — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:01:28 +0000

A suggestion for all those posters who promote the idea of a God’s influence in our lives.

Since none of you cannot agree on what God actually is, isn’t, does, doesn’t do, says, speaks, etc, I have an idea, LET’S LET HIM SOLVE THESE SILLY DEBATES!

Yes. If God really does exist, lets let HIM answer these questions – in an unambiguous, clear, everyone hears it at the same time, no room for questions or interpretations manner.

Should be mere child’s play for the “creator” of the universe.. eh?

I won’t hold my breath waiting for the answer…

By: Gary Ansorge

Gary Ansorge — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:05:06 +0000

Matt: Ther have been some tests of the efficacy of prayer in assisting the healing preoces and so far they’ve been shown to do no better than chance.
How could this persons cancer have been “cured”?
Check the medical literature. Spontaneous remissions of cancer occur in about 1 in 1000 of cancer cases. Most of those had no more coordinated prayer than we would expect from the concern of family and friends but still,,,only 1 in 1000? Not good odds. I’ll take my chances with modern medicine.

As an aside, I have a skin cancer on my left ear. Not malignant, just the usual thing that crops up as we white folk age. My internest chose to merely observe it for a while. Coincidentally, about the same time as that was diagnosed, I began taking testosterone supplements,since my own levels were in the bucket(quite common in older males). Within a month after starting the testosterone, the skin cancer had faded to a fraction of it’s former size. Right now it is nearly completely gone. Testosterone is a known stimulant of the immune system but if I had a serious cancer, I’d want the best and most potent drugs medical science could come up with. Even though I’m a mystic(and rational materialist) I believe we have big brains for a purpose and that purpose is to understand the universe. A real god would have to let its creation find its own way. Any other way would be just another dictator.

,,,and we have had enough of those,,,

GAry 7