Poplolli131 - Look, I can't be stuffed having this argument over youtube. watch askcliffe (that's his username) I just want to say that the theory of evolution is nothing like gravity, or electromagnetism, because there is nothing scientific about it, it's not science because it can not be observed or repeated,? I don't care whether they try to pass it off as 'science' the fact is that Scientists don't know any more than anybody else does about how the world was created and it annoys me that they pretend to!

Here is my list of reasons: Stupid, Afraid or Evil

If it is a citizen I could add "ignorant" to the list, I will not give an elected official this out since they should know law and history to at least this level of understanding.

Being an insurance company they have had lots people read the whole thing and get a intimate understanding on what is up with it.

"Remember that every government service, every offer of government financed security, is paid for in the loss of personal freedom.....In the days to come, whenever a voice is raised telling to you to let the government do it, analyze very carefully to see whether the suggested service is worth the personal freedom which you must forgo in return for such services." Ronald Reagan

Only Spirituality Can Solve The Problems Of The World
Deepak Chopra, February 24, 2010 10:22 AM
"Before addressing the importance of spirituality in modern times, we should first define it. Spirituality is the experience of that domain of awareness where we experience our universality. This domain of awareness is a core consciousness that is beyond our mind, intellect, and ego. In religious traditions this core consciousness is referred to as the soul which is part of a collective soul or collective consciousness, which in turn is part of a more universal domain of consciousness referred to in religions as God."

Well, actually my comment is about another comment. Here is that comment:

On 2/3/10 at 06:35 AM, Deja_View wrote:

Mr. Myers can stand in defiance of history and say what he wants (which, just happens to be guaranteed by a long list of CHRISTIAN founders and leaders). His buddies, the godless communists who have murdered hundreds of millions in the name of atheism during the 20th century alone, are pleased to see this fool get an audience in one of taxpayer supported institutions of "learning".

Mr. Myers, who apparently believes everyone ELSE is wrong, is nothing but a hate-filled, attention-seeking, anarchist. Mr. Myers is asking others to break laws, violently disrespect the property and beliefs of millions of good citizens, and show his brand of ignorant hatred for what HE doesn't understand. No one should be fooled by this kind of elitist naziism. Mr Myers is exactly the same person who convinced Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Pol Pot, and others that the world should either believe like him or be destroyed. Yes, he has inside him just what he denies exists --- the soul of Satan.

First Example, Gambling in Ohio:
There have been a number of issues on the ballot here in Ohio over the last few years about legalizing gambling. Personally I think this is a fine idea, put in something resembling the liquor control board: license it, tax it, police it. The people that want to gamble can and they can do so legally, fairly and the state can get some revenue out of it. Everyone wins.

Well the versions of the bills that have been on the ballot are nowhere near that simple. One of the first ones would have setup a monopoly. The latest one (that did finally pass) specifies only a few specific places that a specific type of casino can be built.

We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.

The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturing, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.

Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.