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Sarah Palin - creationism, God and Country: separating fact from fiction. Just what does sarah palin believe and if elected, how will those beliefs impact America and its citizens. First of all, does she wants creationism taught in public schools.

The number “8,” placed upon its side, is the symbol for infinity (as perhaps many of us remember from the Schoolhouse Rock song). And if we think of the Schoolhouse Rock video that accompanies the song, in which a young girl, as day rolls calmly into night, quietly ice skates in quiet “figure eights,” perhaps we associate infinity with a stilling of time into divine wholeness.

[Crossposted from Smugbaldy.com] Here’s some more for our Republican War on Science file. Or should that be - Idiocy in high places file? Either way, LA Govenor Bobby Jindal demonstrated yesterday that he has no grasp whatsoever of the issues surrounding the establishment of religious dogma under the heading of “Intelligent Design” in our science classes.

Don’t Ask Bobby Jindal Anything “Sciency” 16 Jun 2008 Author: Smug Baldy In: Bobby Jindal, Creationism, Don't Be That Guy, Evolution, Intelligent Design, John McCain Here’s some more for our Republican War on Science file.

This week’s upcoming Time Magazine highlights: If the basic rules of chemistry are any guide, life should not exist. Scientists showed in the 1950s that shooting an electric spark through a soup of chemicals — thus simulating lightning strikes on the primordial planet earth — could produce simple organic compounds.

Imagine what John Lennon is thinking, looking down from atop of one of those silvery-lined dark clouds, knowing Yoko Ono, Julian Lennon and Sean Ono Lennon are suing the makers of a documentary about Intelligent Design for using John Lennon’s 1971 Imagine tune in a movie.

Perloff: Allow Intelligence by James Perloff The New American.com Traditionally minded Americans don’t often cheer Hollywood products. We gladly report an exception: Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (rated PG). As many NEW AMERICAN readers know, Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution transformed Western culture.

Just when you thought it was safe to teach your kids sound science after the Dover, PA, Intelligent Design fiasco, along comes Linkletter and Luce the Dumb-Ass Cable guys.  Well, not really, but seriously…  why is it that it often appears that a community’s stupidest people make it onto the local school board??

This is part 1 of 2 shows criticizing and reviewing the junk science and ad honminem attacks of Ben Stein’s “Expelled. No Intelligence Allowed” documentary film.  (no truth allowed).  Reba Boyd Wooden the Executive Director of The Center for Inquiry- Indiana joins us for these shows.

I am preparing some slides for The Enlightenment Show which we are shooting next Sunday. Mark and I saw the movie on Sat. There were about ten folks in the theater, (noon showing). I will talk on the whole movie later but first everyone should see this.