An article from Evolution News that takes a statement from an evolutionist who supports common descent, and then then refutes it point by point.
Here’s the case for common descent:
UCA is now supported by a wealth of evidence from many independent sources, including: (1) the agreement between phylogeny and biogeography; (2) the correspondence between phylogeny and the palaeontological record; (3) the existence of numerous predicted transitional fossils; (4) the hierarchical classification of morphological characteristics; (5) the marked similarities of biological structures with different functions (that is, homologies); and (6) the congruence of morphological and molecular phylogenies.
Everybody likes Friday Night Funny, but no one ever sends me anything funny to post.
Well, I found this video on Jojo’s Facebook page: (some swearing)
This video summarizes almost everything I have ever said about feminism on this blog in two years.
I actually got into a debate with a feminist on Facebook over this video.
Here it is:
Feminist: If that video is done with its many straw men we could really use them to keep the crows away from the corn.
Wintery Knight: Hey, can you pick the absolute worst straw man out of your blanket statement and tell us about him? It really isn’t much help to make blanket statements like that since we have no reason to believe something that makes no specific claims.
Feminist: You’re right, blanket statements and broad generalizations are seldom helpful. A good example of this would be… Oh yes, the video.
Wintery Knight: Yes, we know you don’t LIKE it in the same way that I don’t LIKE liver and onions. But what specific factual claim do you think is mistaken, and what evidence do you have that this factual claim is mistaken?
Feminist: Not interested in going blow by blow. They’re consistantly silly claims and I’m sure you’ve debated this enough that we could go in circles for a long period of time.That said, liver and onions done well is delicious and I hope you’ll give it another shot.
That was it. If you guys want more funny stuff posted, you have to send me more funny stuff.
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Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), founder and chair of the House Tea Party Caucus, told CNSNews.com this week that when the Republicans take control of the House of Representatives in January they should kill Obamacare by zeroing-out funding for it, and by the same means remove from office the non-Senate-confirmed “czars” President Barack Obama has named to his administration.
“That’s the beauty of conservatives winning in this election, because the House has the power of the purse and we can zero that out in our budget,” she said.
“Zero out any funding for the current czars, for instance, that the president has,” Bachmann told CNSNews.com in an appearance on “Online With Terry Jeffrey. “Zero out the implementation of Obamacare. Zero out funding for the 16,500 IRS agents who will be the enforcers of Obamacare. All of that needs to be zeroed out.”
When asked whether she was advocating that the Republican majority in the House kill Obamacare by simply using the power of the purse to never approve funding for it, Bachmann said: “Yes.”
[…]“That’s what we’re supposed to do here in Congress, is make our case based upon a principled argument,” the Minnesota conservative told CNSNews.com. ”And we need to make that argument, because to go down the road of funding Obamacare will lead us to socialized medicine.”
Here’s an interesting part of the transcript:
Jeffrey: Congressman, let me turn to some social and cultural issues.
Earlier this year, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave a talk where she said that her favorite word was the “Word made flesh,” namely Jesus Christ, and that she believed that she had a duty to pursue policies that were in keeping with the values of Jesus Christ. A reporter from CNSNews.com went to one of her press conferences and asked her when did she believe that the Word was made flesh? Was it at the Annunciation, at the conception of Jesus Christ? Or was it at the Nativity, at the birth of Jesus Christ? And when did Jesus get the right life? Was it at conception? Was it at birth? When did Jesus get the right to life? So I want to ask you that same question that we put to Nancy Pelosi. When was the Word made Flesh? At the conception? And when did Jesus get a right to life?
Bachmann: I think the answer would be John 1:1. The Word was God and the Word was with God from the foundation of the Earth. So, prior to our even being here on the Earth, the Father and the Son were together because all things were created by Jesus Christ and with the Father and held together. And I believe in a triune God: God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. That’s when Jesus was created. It’s hard for us to understand, beyond our limits of time, what eternity really means. I don’t know that the mind of man can truly conceive and understand eternity, but we know from the Word of God–I believe the Word of God–that Christ was preeminent. That He was preeminent and before all things and created all things. So, therefore, He always was one with the Father.
Jeffrey: And He became flesh, became a human being–
Bachmann: And dwelt with man.
Jeffrey: And dwelt among us.
Bachmann: And dwelt among us.
Jeffrey: And did Jesus have a right to life from the moment of conception?
Bachmann: Yes.
Jeffrey: Do all human beings have a right to life?
Bachmann: Yes, they do.
Jeffrey: Should there be legal protection for every human being from the moment of conception?
Bachmann: Yes, there should be.
You can see the full video of the interview and read the full transcript at the CNS News link.
I remember listening to a MacLaurin lecture one day given by Ravi Zacharias in Minnesota. And as I started it up, you will never believe who was introducing him. It was Michele Bachmann. And she was explaining to the audience how she had asked her husband, for her anniversary present, to go and hear Ravi Zacharias speak. She did not ask for stuff. She asked for apologetics. If only this woman could be President, I would be the happiest person in the world.
