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Finally, now I know where greehouses come from.

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to ban greenhouse-emitting private commuter transport from city centres.

Oh, this is just the best, ever:

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Discourage human reproduction

Right on! After you… and you.. and you… ;)

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From this petition:

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to ban the practice of docking tails of dogs, even and especially if they have been traditionally docked, and to end all similar forms of mutilation to dogs.

Nice idea. But, correct me if I’m wrong, wasn’t this exact issue covered by The Animal Welfare Act 2006? Okay, the act does have some (very specific) exemptions, but isn’t this pretty much the same thing?

I’m guessing that the author wasn’t keeping up with events, mostly due to them spending far too much time playing games on the internet. Why do I think that? Take a look:

However, it is clearly painful to the puppy, and is purely a cosmetic exercise for the vanity of pwners.

Pwners? 1337!

Oh, this has to be a classic:

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Force the drivers of conventional 2wd vehicles to give way to the drivers of 4×4 vehicles at all times.

Yeah right. Attempting to take it even slightly seriously for a microsecond, I can just see it now: crowds stopped at junctions with drivers walking around the back to check model specs, asking whether a given X-Trail or RAV-4 was in 2wd, auto or lock-4×4 mode at the time, … BOGGLE!!

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I doubt it’s the first, but it’s the first one I’ve noticed. A petition that doesn’t really understand the difference between a theory and a hypothesis.

It seems to start out well:

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Expand the teaching of Scientific Hypotheses in schools.

Fine, if schools are teaching various hypotheses then, by all means, teach a few of them, and teach what it means for something to be a hypothesis. Sadly, very quickly, the detail of the petition descends into nonsense:

Darwinian Theory, as has been taught in schools for decades, is generally accepted as fact

Fair enough, and with good reason.

To be fair, we ask the Prime Minister to make it mandatory that Intelligent Design be taught as an equally plausible hypothesis.

Equally plausible to what exactly? The theory of evolution through natural selection? Hmm, okay, I wonder why you might think that makes perfect sense…

Evolution is taught on the basis of the religion (atheist)

Ahh, that’ll be why you think it makes sense. You think that a) atheism is a religion (it isn’t) and that evolution is taught because schools are, what, run by evil atheists? But, no matter, tell me why you think ID needs to be taught too, what’s the backing for that idea?

so Christians and others should be allowed to have their beliefs supported

Because there are no Christians who think that evolution is a good theory that explains the evidence, right?

And there IS scientifically valid evidence for ID, just as there appears to be for Evolution

Cute. Notice how there is evidence for ID but there appears to be evidence for evolution?

If this country bans one religion’s belief on how we came to be, we should abandon all religious beliefs - even atheist beliefs (evolution) and therefore, have no basis to question our existence- just accept it and move on. Thus putting and end to “science.” This is not recommended, however.

It’s hard to know where to start with this bit. First of all the author makes the normal mistake of thinking that atheism is a religion, then she makes the mistake of thinking that a belief in the theory of evolution is a required belief for an atheist and, worse yet, she also thinks that no Christian would ever believe that the theory of evolution is a sound theory.

I suggest the author go back to school and learn a) what an atheist is, b) learn what a Christian is, c) learn what a hypothesis is, d) learn what a theory is and, finally, learn that the world isn’t as black and white as she might think.