tongue tied rants
The following is excerpted from the Tongue Tied column at Foxnews.
The San Jose Mercury News says recent allegations about steroid abuse, adultery and tax evasion against baseball player Barry Bonds (search) are ultimately racist in origin.
Race-baiters say the fact that Bonds was closing in on Babe Ruth's home run record was just too threatening for the white establishment to take so it is now grinding him down.
"If you have a black man who's conscious and independent and on the verge of breaking Babe Ruth's record ... that's frightening," Leonard Moore, a Louisiana State University professor, told the paper. "If you speak out, if you don't play to what white America wants, there will be persecution, scrutiny and unfair reporting."
Whaaaa? Maybe it's escaped the LSU dumbass's, I mean professor's notice that Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth's homerun record way back in 1974, and Hank was in fact... black! So why on earth would "white America" be frightened of Barry Bonds passing Babe Ruth? It's been done and it was over 30 years ago. Don't be stupid, Dr. Moore.
In the same column under letters from readers, one Casey L. whines about how a film showing evolution as theory should show both theories, evolution and creationism. I'm going to rant a bit about it because this stupid use of the word "theory" is one of my peeves. Casey L. needs to consult any science textbook for a definition of "theory". Easily the most common error I see from creationists is calling evolution "just a theory" as though that belittles it. They're thinking of the word theory in its vernacular sense as something akin to a conjecture or a hypothesis with little evidence backing it. Of course in the scientific sense it is very different, describing a concept that has a great deal of evidence and research behind it. A scientific theory is one step short of a Law. It takes loads of evidence, many years of reseach, and considerable consensus in the scientific community to elevate a concept to the level of theory. A science movie is not likely to present "BOTH views as theory" as Casey L. desires because creationism is NOT a scientific theory. So please, creationists, consult a science text to understand the process by which a hypothesis may eventually become a theory. Using it incorrectly just advertises to everyone that you have zero knowledge of science.
The San Jose Mercury News says recent allegations about steroid abuse, adultery and tax evasion against baseball player Barry Bonds (search) are ultimately racist in origin.
Race-baiters say the fact that Bonds was closing in on Babe Ruth's home run record was just too threatening for the white establishment to take so it is now grinding him down.
"If you have a black man who's conscious and independent and on the verge of breaking Babe Ruth's record ... that's frightening," Leonard Moore, a Louisiana State University professor, told the paper. "If you speak out, if you don't play to what white America wants, there will be persecution, scrutiny and unfair reporting."
Whaaaa? Maybe it's escaped the LSU dumbass's, I mean professor's notice that Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth's homerun record way back in 1974, and Hank was in fact... black! So why on earth would "white America" be frightened of Barry Bonds passing Babe Ruth? It's been done and it was over 30 years ago. Don't be stupid, Dr. Moore.
In the same column under letters from readers, one Casey L. whines about how a film showing evolution as theory should show both theories, evolution and creationism. I'm going to rant a bit about it because this stupid use of the word "theory" is one of my peeves. Casey L. needs to consult any science textbook for a definition of "theory". Easily the most common error I see from creationists is calling evolution "just a theory" as though that belittles it. They're thinking of the word theory in its vernacular sense as something akin to a conjecture or a hypothesis with little evidence backing it. Of course in the scientific sense it is very different, describing a concept that has a great deal of evidence and research behind it. A scientific theory is one step short of a Law. It takes loads of evidence, many years of reseach, and considerable consensus in the scientific community to elevate a concept to the level of theory. A science movie is not likely to present "BOTH views as theory" as Casey L. desires because creationism is NOT a scientific theory. So please, creationists, consult a science text to understand the process by which a hypothesis may eventually become a theory. Using it incorrectly just advertises to everyone that you have zero knowledge of science.
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