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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@Logical thinkarrgh, I think we’re all going nuts here. (Twitches)
The problem is that they use misinterpretations of science to convince people who don’t know any better, the same way as they use the 2nd law of thermodynamics, which actually has less proof than evolution, but there you go.
No the problem is they out and out lie! As this documentary, and all the other things I have seen from the religious, shows they are the ones who use dirty underhanded tactics, they send a man death treats for up holding the law. They really are utter cunts!
“He who believes in absurdity will commit atrocity”
@Old Grouch–Yes, the whole Ted Haggard thing was quite amusing. I particularly loved the whole meth thing. No doubt he was buying it to make sure innocent children didn’t get any. And when he came back saying he needed more cash. Classic!
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And this old (young) Colorado boy (actually, girl) is currently interning at the US embassy in Romania. They have their own issues with religion here, but not so much on issues of faith. It’s more like they’re pissed off at the Orthodox priests who collaborated with the secret police during the “good old days” of communism, and then deny, deny, deny.
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When I go back home, and can actually use my credit card without fear that it’ll be rejected since I’m in Bucharest, I plan on supporting the CoFSM and buying a few things. Always nice to stick it to the uber-right wingers back home. :-)
@ rmw- “@Old Grouch–Yes, the whole Ted Haggard thing was quite amusing. I particularly loved the whole meth thing. No doubt he was buying it to make sure innocent children didn’t get any.”
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Did he get sucked off by a rent boy for the same reason?
http://objectiveministries.org/antioccult/
“Whether it be the challenge of exorcising demonic possessions or simply the act of shooing away a gaggle of neighborhood Druids eyeing my cat, Milton, with perverse hunger, I have answered the Lord’s call to engage in Spiritual Warfare against Satan’s minions, and my answer is: “Bring it on!””
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This guy is my new hero!
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“Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort of Way Of The Master Ministries managed to infiltrate a coven of Druids [Druid segment removed; see update below] and secretly record their creepy full-moon rites with hidden-camera glasses. Kirk and Ray narrowly escape unsacrificed when one of the Druid High Priests suspects Kirk of taping their conversation. By God’s grace, Kirk was able to trick the High Priest into thinking he wasn’t on tape. Listen as the High Priest — speaking freely and without the normal subterfuge that characterizes Druidism — explains how their false, Occultic religion is steeped in licentiousness and a complete lack of Christ.”
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He’s a comic genus!
And remember kids – “Do not attempt a Druid infiltration on your own!” & “some listeners tried to imitate Kirk’s infiltration and wound up being assaulted with tree branches.”
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Assauted with tree branches- fantastic!
Or how about
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“For the safety of your soul, do not be tempted by the lure of impulse rock chip repair from strangers in parking lots. It may say free, but it could cost you your soul! If you need your windshield fixed, go to a qualified Christian repair shop.”
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So when your Christian brakes down you now know where to take him!
Long hard sticklike things, sure ‘assaulted with branches’ isn’t just the cover story?
@ storm petrel- A cover story for what? Being raped by Druids?
Since when do the druids have to have anything to do with it? I was thinking more along the lines of the number of fundie preachers falling out of the closet around the time Ted Haggard did.
Okay, that last post didn’t work. So, just copy and paste these links if you’d like. One’s a link to my blog with a news article from the local paper on the Haggard scandal, the other is a really great song entitled “Meth and Man ass.” (Who wouldn’t want to listen to that song?)
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potionsmistres.livejournal.com/17131.html–add http://
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huffingtonpost.com/paul-hipp/meth-and-man-ass_b_33326.html–add http://www.
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@Pluto–no doubt the good reverend did what he did “for the sake of the children.” Look, nobody is perfect, but you make a damn bigger fool of yourself when you pretend to be so.
“but you make a damn bigger fool of yourself when you pretend to be so.”
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Who me? Dyslexic manic-depressive? Nothing perfect about me.
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Haggard wasn’t practicing what he preached making him a hypocrite!
Also a criminal!
Meth does burn holes in your brain, could explain abit about him…
I’m feeling some tension…
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What is going on?
http://objectiveministries.org/antioccult/halloween.html
Sorry to go on about this guy but I think he is amazing.
“While many Christians correctly see Halloween as a time of occult dangers - when Satan is out in force trying to corrupt our society - they overlook the fact that all things are created by the Lord for a purpose. So what is the purpose of this dark time of the year?”
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This from a guy how looks like Herman Munster!
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“Consider this: At what other time of the year do throngs of unsaved children come to your door, begging for you to give them a treat? Why not use this unique opportunity to give these deprived children the best treat of all - the treat of Christ’s Love and eternal Salvation?”
Do you think his house is covered in egg once a year?
“These unsaved trick-or-treaters - innocent children tricked by secular society and their non-Christian parents into participating in occult rituals”
See it’s the parents who are to blame! Not being a Christian makes you an automatic devil worshiper!
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Best bit?
“It is important that we acknowledge that there are certainly lots of anti-Christian activities that go on during Halloween, including obvious and blatant things such as the reveling in demonology but also subtly subversive things such as “bobbing for apples”, which is really a symbolic re-enactment of the Fall.”
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Ok how the fuck does bobbing for apples represent the fall, other than apples are involved? Could any god box’s out there explain that one to me? Are all apples off limits?
“”BOO! I’m John the Baptist, and these are my many exciting exploits…””
@Pluto Nov 20th, 2007 at 4:23 pm: “…Ok how the fuck does bobbing for apples represent the fall, other than apples are involved? Could any god box’s out there explain that one to me? Are all apples off limits?…”
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And nowhere the bible mentions apples, only fruit. Has to do with apples having been an erotic symbol in some cultures.
@storm petrel- “Meth does burn holes in your brain, could explain abit about him…”
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Like how forgot that he was anti-gay and pro family?
Bending your head down into the bowl of water perhaps? If he’s really looking hard for something it might be that you close your eyes while bobbing then open them once your head is out of the water, with an apple, eyes closed, before the aple of knowledge was eaten, eyes open, after it was eaten.
Apple update:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_%28symbolism%29