From: Darren Gates <[address removed]>
Subject: Re: [atheists-487] Obama appointed a hold-over Creationist to head NIH?
To: [address removed]
Date: Thursday, July 9, 2009, 11:42 AM

This is a good article by my hero, Sam Harris:

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20060815_sam_harris_language_ignorance/


Frances Prevas wrote:
> Don't go overboard.
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> Francis Collins is a well regarded scientist and administrator, and PZ Myers says he will make a good administrator.
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> http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/07/collins_to_head_nih.php
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> He's not a Young Earth Creationist or a Bible literalist. He might think that there are first hand accounts in the New Testament, but a fair number of people think that, even without believing that Jesus rose from the dead.
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> --- On Thu, 7/9/09, YaraMC <[address removed]> wrote:
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>> From: YaraMC <[address removed]>
>> Subject: Re: [atheists-487] Obama appointed a hold-over Creationist to head NIH?
>> To: [address removed]
>> Date: Thursday, July 9, 2009, 10:52 AM
>> I have been a Democrat all my life,
>> but Obama is turning out to be following and imitating all
>> of Bush's retrograde and anti-woman policies. I will NOT
>> be voting again for this man.
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>> Obama=Bush,Obama=Bush,Obama=Bush,Obama=Bush,Obama=Bush,Obama=Bush,Obama=Bush,Obama=Bush,
>> Obama=Bush,Obama=Bush.
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>> I'm sick and tired of it.
>>
>> YaraMC
>> --- On Thu, 7/9/09, Neil Clark
>> <[address removed]> wrote:
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>> From: Neil Clark <[address removed]>
>> Subject: [atheists-487] Obama appointed a hold-over
>> Creationist to head NIH?
>> To: [address removed]
>> Date: Thursday, July 9, 2009, 10:36 AM
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>> I am all for bi-partisan
>> inclusiveness...but that doesn't mean that I'll sit
>> quietly by as a
>>  bible-believer is placed at the head of the National
>> Institutes of Health - presumably to placate a vocal
>> minority of prideful
>> Right-Wing know-nothings...
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>> http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/07/09/man-new-testament-first-hand-nih/
>>
>> Neil Clark
>> Long Beach CA
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