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ethicalgop	Posted: Feb 14 2004, 05:28 PM
Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 44 Member No.: 3 Joined: 14-February 04	Atheists, Humanists Push Campaign for 'Darwin Day' Thu Feb 12, 9:27 AM ET By Robert Evans GENEVA (Reuters) - Atheist, agnostic and humanist organizations in the Americas, Europe and Asia are gearing up for a five-year campaign aimed at achieving international recognition of Feb. 12 as "Darwin Day." Their target date is 2009 -- the bicentenary of the birth of British biologist Charles Darwin whose own faith in a deity who created the world collapsed before the theory of evolution he set out in 1859 in his ground-breaking "The Origin of Species." Why push for an annual celebration of Darwin now? His ideas are widely shared and even religious leaders from churches that once denounced him as a heretic accept that life on Earth evolved over 3 billion years from primitive forms. Rest of Story

ethicalgop	Posted: Feb 14 2004, 05:28 PM
Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 44 Member No.: 3 Joined: 14-February 04	We were talking about this on PI, and I decided instead of Darwin day, I would rather have George Washington Carver day. I always liked him.

Charity	Posted: Feb 14 2004, 05:31 PM
Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 76 Member No.: 4 Joined: 14-February 04	Dr Hovind Day :)

ALS	Posted: Feb 14 2004, 10:19 PM
Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 71 Member No.: 1 Joined: 14-February 04	(IMG:http://www.conservababes.com/darwinpics/darwinquote6.gif)

Architecture3000 !	Posted: Feb 16 2004, 04:19 PM
Specialist Group: Specialist Posts: 20 Member No.: 7 Joined: 15-February 04	Is this the FR patsatanhenry ? http://www.rawbw.com/~svw/story.html Larry Niven. The piece was titled "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex." Found it! Very funny stuff. Recommended: Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex. Sample: But with kryptonian muscles behind it, Kal-El's semen would emerge with the muzzle velocity of a machine gun bullet. (One can imagine that the Kent home in Smallville was riddled with holes during Superboy's puberty. And why did Lana Lang never notice that?) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1079120/posts

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Is this the FR patsatanhenry ?

http://www.rawbw.com/~svw/story.html

Larry Niven. The piece was titled "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex."

Found it! Very funny stuff. Recommended: Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex. Sample:

But with kryptonian muscles behind it, Kal-El's semen would emerge with the muzzle velocity of a machine gun bullet. (*One can imagine that the Kent home in Smallville was riddled with holes during Superboy's puberty. And why did Lana Lang never notice that?*)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1079120/posts

I don't think so. The egotist who created the I-love-me page, "The Tao of slaw" is too young to be the PH. They are alike in their egotism, however.

Here is a little more on "Steve".

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Short Run-in with Censorship
While interning (in California), I received the following e-mail from the chairman of the Electrical Engineering Department (in Florida) via the department secretary:

Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 15:02:21 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: EE www

Dear Mr. Walstra: Please remove all the material you have placed in
the Electrical and Computer Engineering www write up. Our department
home page material is intended to inform about the department. Many
individuals, including me, have found "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex"
inappropriate and, indeed, offensive. Ditto, "The Electrical Engineering
Purity Test." Is there other material you have inserted? Please let me
know when your material has been removed.

This was an unexpected surprise since the only thing on my Electrical Engineering Page was a link to my 'real' homepage on the Computer Science Department's server. The e-mail only proved that the author understood neither how links work nor where pages physically exist. Furthermore, the "Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex" story had been on-line for over a year and the EE Purity Test had existed about six months, both sans complaint. The heart of the problem, I suspected, was that the people involved were new to the WWW and ran across my page rather soon in their journey. Compared to enrollment demographics or other such administrivia, my page resembled an affront to all that is good and pure.
Feeling strongly in the right, I replied smugly (and immediately):

Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 15:26:35 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: EE www

Please be informed that none of the material mentioned above has ever resided
on the EE department's server. I am very sorry that people have taken offense
with material on my WWW page (which is on the computer science's server). I
believe the link-names adequately describe the HTML documents--anyone who
was offended chose to follow the links. . .

Steve Walstra

Although I figured everything was cleared up, I received anonymous intelligence suggesting that the wheels were still turning, and I was about to be run over by them (to the tune of expulsion!). I removed the links and sent the following melodramatic mail (take into account that I was 3,000 miles away, so could not just walk in and talk to someone):
Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 19:57:52 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: WWW page material removed

Although I have not received further word from you, I have removed the two
articles from my web page. Those two pages had been there for a long
time, and I have never received a complaint until now. If I didn't value my
education so much, I would consider contacting the ACLU.

Hoping this is resolved,

Steve Walstra

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