NOVA’s most recent program is about the Intelligent Design debate over the last few years. They’ve put together an excellent companion website, and as of November 16th, you can watch the entire program online - I highly recommend it. NOVA always does a fantastic job on their programs and this is no exception.
My one criticism is that they neglected to mention the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster’s role in the Intelligent Design vs Science debate.
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An elaborate spoof on Intelligent Design, The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is neither too elaborate nor too spoofy to succeed in nailing the fallacies of ID. It's even wackier than Jonathan Swift's suggestion that the Irish eat their children as a way to keep them from being a burden, and it may offend just as many people, but Henderson, described elsewhere as a 25-year-old "out-of-work physics major," puts satire to the same serious use that Swift did. Oh, yes, it is very funny. -- Scientific American
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Checked that out when they posted the clips. Excellent! Thanks NOVA (:))
Transcripts also available there :))
Silver
So far this seems like a great resource for whats happening all over the place. I also haven’t seen any reference to His Noodliness. Hopefully they will be touched and all their nonsense will be at an end.
I don’t see how they really could have slipped the FSM into the Dover Trial format. However maybe in an epilogue covering the continuation of the ID movement?
I soooooooo wanted FSM to pop up as an example of how biased the school board was.
…I mean, having only one Intelligent Design theory? C’mon!
Yes and not even the most likely one!
I stayed up till 1:30 AM just to watch this program…and I must say I am pleased, especially about the judge’s statement that ID is not science. If it’s not science, do not place it in a science class.
Fluorine
Oh what noodly appendages we weave when first we practice to believe.
Ramen
I saw the entire thing. Makes me feel all warm inside when you see nutters like Bonsel and Buckingham be really, really sour when they’ve been caught out. Buckinghams response said it all: we got obliterated, so the judge is an arse. I also laughed with glee when I heard him say with exasperation ‘How can these people call themselves christians and then go on to teach evolution?!’. Oh the nano-mindedness of these christians. They should all become organ donors. That’s generally a good thing but they should be donors especially. If you don’t use your brain, then why not give it to someone else?
@DutchPastaGuy,
But, friend, there has to be a brain there in the first place. Doesn’t there? Of course, I’ll grant that there is - at least probably - a lump of gray matter somewhere in the bone casing. But, in what state, or condition? Why would you want to give an atrophied chunk of dead tissue to anyone? Better it should stay where it is, I think. “Let the dead bury the dead”, says a passage from Scripture.
Yar, me hearties! His Great Noodliness works in wondrous ways. I love NOVA. I hope they keep doing what they’re doing. This was such an amazing piece.
I loved the part where they used the one guys own definition of science against him: if ID is science, so is astrology, ether theory, and a bunch of other discarded theories.
@Old Grouch
“But, friend, there has to be a brain there in the first place. Doesn’t there? Of course, I’ll grant that there is - at least probably - a lump of gray matter somewhere in the bone casing. But, in what state, or condition?”
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Brand new, never been used!
I loved the site!
Hven’t seen the show yet. I will tomorrow at work when there is nothing to do.
The Evolutionists kicked ass!
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@DutchPastaGuy - I too laughed with glee at Buckingham… he bristles at the thought that he descended from primates…I don’t think he descended at all… :P
Wow.that’s like forgetting to mention Spaghetti in a debate about pasta.
What a load of cultural midgets.
PLATINUM! no one called it so i get it. how dare they not mention us
I’ll make sure to watch it, sounds interesting. The FSM should have been mentioned, although I’m not surprised they didn’t.
RAmen