Meanwhile at NASA!

[Dru]

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/04/science/04climate.html

 

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The Big Bang memo came from Mr. Deutsch, a 24-year-old presidential appointee in the press office at NASA headquarters whose résumé says he was an intern in the "war room" of the 2004 Bush-Cheney re-election campaign. A 2003 journalism graduate of Texas A&M, he was also the public-affairs officer who sought more control over Dr. Hansen's public statements.

 

 

 

 

In October 2005, Mr. Deutsch sent an e-mail message to Flint Wild, a NASA contractor working on a set of Web presentations about Einstein for middle-school students. The message said the word "theory" needed to be added after every mention of the Big Bang.

 

 

 

 

The Big Bang is "not proven fact; it is opinion," Mr. Deutsch wrote, adding, "It is not NASA's place, nor should it be to make a declaration such as this about the existence of the universe that discounts intelligent design by a creator."

 

 

 

 

It continued: "This is more than a science issue, it is a religious issue. And I would hate to think that young people would only be getting one-half of this debate from NASA. That would mean we had failed to properly educate the very people who rely on us for factual information the most."

 

NASA has also announced today that they are cutting their budget for scientific research (you know, on things like the Big Bang) in order to focus on returning astronauts to the Moon.

 

Where, presumably, they will look for evidence of the Biblical flood and stuff.

[lI1|1!]

i'm not worried about where the world is going. in another bunch of years i'll be dead anyway.

[EWolfe]

[catbirdseat]

Theories that are as widely accepted as the Big Bang Theory, don't generally require the term "theory" be used in conjunction with it. The same applies to evolution.

[Dru]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/space/3644847.html

 

The guy resigned yesterday after it was revealed he was a college dropout and had lied about it on his resume.

[olyclimber]

spam...surprised he wasn't running FEMA or something.

[cj001f]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/space/3644847.html

 

The guy resigned yesterday after it was revealed he was a college dropout and had lied about it on his resume.

Wow, that's the first I heard of that

[Phil K]

Everyone knows that the world is a creation of His noodly appendage.

 

http://www.venganza.org/

 

What really convinced me was the remarkable resemblence between the drawing of Him creating mountains and trees, and the Silverton's Sickle topo in Washington Ice. No way that could be "just" a coincidence now, is there?

[EWolfe]

[ScottP]