American elections

[The Flying Tench]

More about it here. How can one be 'mildly supportive' of an outfit that aims to 'educate' children that the earth is only 6,000 years old and that dinosaurs and early man were contemporaries?

 

Well, I am not a scientist, but as I understand it there are a small number of scientists who believe this, and so I guess there has to be a slight possibility they are right. Also, in most of the debate I read about this the creationists are only saying that both views should be put forward as possibilities, whereas the evolutionists usually say that only their view can be put. I am in favour of free speech.

 

Quite often when open debate is allowed neither position turns out to be totally true, but being open and allowing all views to be put helps people get nearer to the truth.

 

Of course there are some creationists who are more dogmatic and closed than any evolutionist, and I don't support them at all!

 

Having said all that, I've never met a creationist who would explain to me exactly what they think really happened. The idea that one moment there were no animals on the earth and then ... PING ... here are some elephants and ... PING ... here are some giraffes. Well, I do admit it doesn't strike me as very likely but, well ... for some reason it reminds me of some of the Beatles' record covers. It quite appeals!

[Peter Sharpe]

Fair's fair; Americans have the Creationists and we have The Monster Raving Loony Party. Tolerance in equal measure I say.

[Vagabond]

How can one be 'mildly supportive' of an outfit that aims to 'educate' children ............. that dinosaurs and early man were contemporaries?

Of course they were! Don't you watch Fred Flintstone ?

[Alan Stubbs]

The clue who i am not going to vote for when the time comes, they who decided to scrap our plane called concord as opposed to giving it to someone who would have done something with it like Branson, can't forgive them for that.

 

 

With Branson's track record, he had no intention of doing anything with Concorde. He is supreme at one thing only - self promotion.

 

The timing of his announcement re Concorde was purely designed to get Virgin's / Brnason's name attached to a news item of the day.

 

Look back over key issues over the past 20 years - Branson's name is always in the mix, but how often is it followed through?

 

I'll give you a clue... Nil, zip, nada, S*d all and never.

 

As youy can tell, I am a true fan of his...not.

[barry luxton]

With Branson's track record, he had no intention of doing anything with Concorde. He is supreme at one thing only - self promotion.

 

The timing of his announcement re Concorde was purely designed to get Virgin's / Brnason's name attached to a news item of the day.

 

Look back over key issues over the past 20 years - Branson's name is always in the mix, but how often is it followed through?

 

I'll give you a clue... Nil, zip, nada, S*d all and never.

 

As youy can tell, I am a true fan of his...not.

 

Hi Alan, i didn't say i was a fan of his, it was a shame that the gov where very quick in decommisioning the aircraft along with b a, i think we had twelve of them apart from ones going to museums the rest where dismantled? Nothing has been flown to compare with that acheivement, what a shame. Tsr2 was another example of crap decisions made. As one of the vulcuns has been made airworthy, they could have least done something for concord.