Expelled Exposed has made a video about the evolution of the eye.

And cdesign proponentsists say the eye is to complex to have evolved.

Magic trick costs teacher job

Land ‘O Lakes, Florida — The stories in the news about inappropriate relationships between teachers and students have been overwhelming. There was even a substitute teacher in New Port Richey who got in trouble after investigators say she had a relationship with an underage student.

Well, another Pasco County substitute teacher’s job is on the line, but this time it’s because of a magic trick.

The charge from the school district — Wizardry!

Substitute teacher Jim Piculas does a 30-second magic trick where a toothpick disappears then reappears.

But after performing it in front of a classroom at Rushe Middle School in Land ‘O Lakes, Piculas said his job did a disappearing act of its own.

“I get a call the middle of the day from the supervisor of substitute teachers. He says, ‘Jim, we have a huge issue. You can’t take any more assignments. You need to come in right away,’” he said.

When Piculas went in, he learned his little magic trick cast a spell that went much farther than he’d hoped.

“I said, ‘Well Pat, can you explain this to me?’ ‘You’ve been accused of wizardry,’ [he said]. Wizardry?” he asked.

Tampa Bay’s 10 talked to the assistant superintendent with the Pasco County School District who said it wasn’t just the wizardry and that Picular had other performance issues, including “not following lesson plans” and allowing students to play on unapproved computers.

Piculas said he knew nothing about the accusations.

“That… I think was embellished after the fact to try to cover what initially what they were saying to me,” he said.

After the magic trick, Rushe’s principal requested Piculas be dismissed. Now, Piculas believes the incident may have bewitched his ability to get a job anywhere else.

“I still have no idea what my discipline involves because I’ve never received anything from the school district actually saying what it entails,” said Piculas.

As a substitute teacher, the Pasco County School District considers Piculas to be an “at will employee.” That means the district doesn’t need to have cause for not bringing him back at all.

And Florida stupidity reaches a new low.
The teacher was fired for wizardry. Wizardry. A magic trick is wizardry?

You believe the universe had to have a cause and that cause is intelligent. But what make you so sure that this cause it your God? Why couldn’t it be another god or not even a god at all but an alien scientist in another universe?

Another question Do you believe in God cause the universe had to have a creator or do you believe the universe had to have a creator cause you believe in God? Which came first, the belief in a god or the belief that there has to be a creator of universe?

Ben Stein (Click here, click on the “Behind the Scenes” tab, and go to the video for April 21th)

Stein: When we just saw that man, I think it was Mr. [PZ] Myers, talking about how great scientists were, I was thinking to myself the last time any of my relatives saw scientists telling them what to do they were telling them to go to the showers to get gassed.

Stein (speaking about the Holocaust): …that was horrifying beyond words, and that’s where science — in my opinion, this is just an opinion — that’s where science leads you.

Crouch: That’s right.

Stein: … Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place, and science leads you to killing people.

<I found this at Respectful Insolence and its astonishing how ignorant this Ben Stein is.

It was scientists sending people to the to be killed in the holocaust? Science leads people to kill people? A tool used to better understand the world through empirical observation, experimentation and the scientific method leads people to kill others?
How can Ben Stein be so ignorant?

Spoiler! Its really large.

Soldier Sues Army, Saying His Atheism Led to Threats

FORT RILEY, Kan. — When Specialist Jeremy Hall held a meeting last July for atheists and freethinkers at Camp Speicher in Iraq, he was excited, he said, to see an officer attending.

When Specialist Jeremy Hall held a meeting last July for atheists and freethinkers at Camp Speicher in Iraq, he was excited, he said, to see an officer attending.

But minutes into the talk, the officer, Maj. Freddy J. Welborn, began to berate Specialist Hall and another soldier about atheism, Specialist Hall wrote in a sworn statement. “People like you are not holding up the Constitution and are going against what the founding fathers, who were Christians, wanted for America!” Major Welborn said, according to the statement.

Major Welborn told the soldiers he might bar them from re-enlistment and bring charges against them, according to the statement.

Last month, Specialist Hall and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, an advocacy group, filed suit in federal court in Kansas, alleging that Specialist Hall’s right to be free from state endorsement of religion under the First Amendment had been violated and that he had faced retaliation for his views. In November, he was sent home early from Iraq because of threats from fellow soldiers.

In a system dominated by people who believe there religion should be the only one, those who believe differently don’t have rights to there beliefs. Welcome to Americas army, welcome to America. “You don’t believe as i do so you don’t have the right to meet with others who believe the same as you! You have no rights!”

military, army, separation of church and state, freedom of religion, freedom from religion, religious freedom, oppression, law, law suit, suit

! of the many ignorant critisisms of evolution is that it can not be observed. Well
Lizards Rapidly Evolve After Introduction to Island

Italian wall lizards introduced to a tiny island off the coast of Croatia are evolving in ways that would normally take millions of years to play out, new research shows.

In just a few decades the 5-inch-long (13-centimeter-long) lizards have developed a completely new gut structure, larger heads, and a harder bite, researchers say.

In 1971, scientists transplanted five adult pairs of the reptiles from their original island home in Pod Kopiste to the tiny neighboring island of Pod Mrcaru, both in the south Adriatic Sea.

Genetic testing on the Pod Mrcaru lizards confirmed that the modern population of more than 5,000 Italian wall lizards are all descendants of the original ten lizards left behind in the 1970s.

Fast-Track Evolution

The new habitat once had its own healthy population of lizards, which were less aggressive than the new implants, Irschick said.

The new species wiped out the indigenous lizard populations, although how it happened is unknown, he said.

The transplanted lizards adapted to their new environment in ways that expedited their evolution physically, Irschick explained.

Pod Mrcaru, for example, had an abundance of plants for the primarily insect-eating lizards to munch on. Physically, however, the lizards were not built to digest a vegetarian diet.

Researchers found that the lizards developed cecal valves—muscles between the large and small intestine—that slowed down food digestion in fermenting chambers, which allowed their bodies to process the vegetation’s cellulose into volatile fatty acids.

“They evolved an expanded gut to allow them to process these leaves,” Irschick said, adding it was something that had not been documented before. “This was a brand-new structure.”

Along with the ability to digest plants came the ability to bite harder, powered by a head that had grown longer and wider.

The rapid physical evolution also sparked changes in the lizard’s social and behavioral structure, he said. For one, the plentiful food sources allowed for easier reproduction and a denser population.

The lizard also dropped some of its territorial defenses, the authors concluded.

Such physical transformation in just 30 lizard generations takes evolution to a whole new level, Irschick said.

It would be akin to humans evolving and growing a new appendix in several hundred years, he said.

“That’s unparalleled. What’s most important is how fast this is,” he said.

While researchers do know the invader’s impact on its reptile brethren, they do not know how the species impacts local vegetation or insects, a subject of future study, Irschick said.

Dramatic Changes

The study demonstrates that a lot of change happens in island environments, said Andrew Hendry, a biology professor at Montreal’s McGill University.

What could be debated, however, is how those changes are interpreted—whether or not they had a genetic basis and not a “plastic response to the environment,” said Hendry, who was not associated with the study.

There’s no dispute that major changes to the lizards’ digestive tract occurred. “That kind of change is really dramatic,” he added.

“All of this might be evolution,” Hendry said. “The logical next step would be to confirm the genetic basis for these changes.”

Well its been observed (and this isn’t the only observation) what do you have to say about that?

This is a chart showing public acceptance of evolution in 34 countries from LiveScience Image Gallery.
Notice how the US is second to last just above Turkey? The US is the 34th. Oh this fills me with so much pride, jut knowing that this country is so stupid.

Expelled Exposed starts up. Expelled Exposed is a detailed look at the Expelled movie debunking its lies and showing it to be what it really is, and intelligent design propaganda film.

Premise files a SLAPP lawsuit against XVIVO. That must be a fist, the plagiariser suing the people they plagiarised.