Is this wise to take away the name of God from our school teachings?

Inserting URLs:

I figured this out when I saw it done in another post. On the IE toolbar, "View-source" and search for the appropriate text in the page that appears and study the format to learn the syntax. If your post doesn't look right after you make it, you can use the Back button to fix it, or edit your message using the Misterpoll button.

Anyway, here is how I do the URLs. Enclose the URL in < and > in place of the of quotes as follows: "http://www.talkreason.org/articles/section2.cfm" http://www.talkreason.org/articles/section2.cfm

View source to see it as it really appears. It looks more complicated.

http://www.google.com/

Cool; thx. I notice it doesn't work if you leave out the "http://www." I ommitted that the first time and my message was blank.

BJake, I didn't work it out myself either; I discovered it by accident. I actually was trying to surround my text with asterisks, and it came out italicized. After that I began...experimenting. Same with the dividing lines; I was trying to type a quintuple dash and that's what happened. I later discovered that a triple dash does the same thing; a double dash won't work.

It's weird how there's no "tutorial" on this board.

I don't know who flagged your post; there seem to be a few hardcore Calvinists on the board who flag everything they disagree with.

True enough Tralhob.

I really wanted to know if the flagging was for the fact I quoted or because I called the church leaders morons. I'd love to know which one was more unwholesome!

Personally, if I could I'd flag the church leaders for their pathetic stance of condemning women to death in case they had sex instead of saving thousands of lives and taking a chance. BUT then again, as a humanist I have to uphold their right to be silly and say ridiculous things. I just don't have to like it and I'll defend my right to call them morons if they continue to do moronic things.

By the way what I'm talking about is the vaccine for cervical cancer - one of the single greatest breakthroughs in the cause of womans health and the church leaders have persuaded the government to withold it in case it encourages extra marital sex! If I saw someone in a blazing house and I could save them I don't think I'd ask myself if doing so would make them more succeptable to extra marital sex - anyone there who would? If a young girl was about to be knocked down by a car should I stand aside and let it happen because she might just become a s.l.u.t? If I could give someone a vaccine which prevents the number one killer of women from getting that awful disease would/should I withold it because she might become promiscuous? I'd say I had no right to make those decisions. Regardless of the fact that I believe there is no god, I'd say no man can play god with thousands of womens' lives! How dare the christian right put thousands of womens' lives at risk because of what they might or might not do? MORONS

I really enjoy very much what nature has to offer to us. Coincidence or by accident, nature did quite a good job with all the beautiful things that we witness around us and the human beings that we are. We couldn't ask for better if there was a super mind and super powers behind all this. All these huge balls moving through the universe without going slower or faster in their movements day by day century after century are just doing so by luck of course. Incredible coincidence. Something also that by accident was self made is the skeleton that support and move our bodies around. What a piece of engineering coming from nobody with a will. Just happened in a few millions of years and ended the right way. I admire also very much brains like Darwin and so many other scientists that had the vision that there's a no intelligent origin behind all this accidental self made realities. Incredible guys. We should add their names to the list of sports and movie stars guys that we admire so much. I know that some are gone already back to cosmic dust. I must agree also that we exaggerate sometimes our admiration towards them with tears of excitement and that we kind of worship them. I know... we are weak. Talking about weak. It's also a fact that every thing we buy like cars, houses, etc or the way we look at the mirror to ourselves, or the fight we put up in life it's some how a need to be admired (kind of worshiped) But it's better to worship ourselves and the humans around us than a superior being that we don't see I totally agree. It's better to be volunteer blind than to admit such a superior being.

Exactly what your post is saying I'm not sure (though it seems, once again, to show a total misunderstanding of evolution) but I can say it is irrelevant to this particular discussion. My original post highlighted that this poll was biased towards christianity, creationism in particular. Instead of babbling on, you would do well to make this poll more balanced if you expect to be taken seriously.

Pete