Great site. Even being a Christian, I get it. :) I don’t think the teaching of so called Intelligent Design has any place in public schools. Faith is not science. Anyhow, long live the FSM. I won’t worship him, but I’ll enjoy his noodly goodness… :)
Have a great day
Tony
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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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@cas:
“What if their kids were forced to sit through 5 minutes of mandatory, teacher-led Satan worship at the start of each school day? I bet they’d be all gung ho about the separation of church and state then.”
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Oh yeah. That hoary chestnut (hmmm, makes it sound kinda dirty, doesn’t it!) is always dredged up as the Last Bastion against force-fed fundy teaching in a public school. It usually takes the form of: “If we let X-denomination do (whatever) then we have to let EVERYONE do (whatever).”
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Well, yeah, here in the US you kinda do.
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Then the clincher: “What if teh WICCANISTS want to (gasp!) worship TREES or the MOON or (speaker faints) a GODDESS? What if teh SATINISTS (and yes, they often spell it this way!) want to worship SATIN! What would happen then?”
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In an insular community, everyone has a moment of satisfying group panic, staved off by a rousing proclamation that *this* school will proudly endorse X-denomination, and everyone else can just move to another country, like Iran. And the really sorry thing is, *any* majority religion or denomination thereof inspires *identical* behaviour in frightened people.
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Somewhere, perhaps this very site, I came across a joke letter which expresses this beautifully.
http: //www.jumbojoke.com/the_pastors_pen_268.html
(take the space out after the http:)
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Best wishes cas; I hope you like it here!
Oops, I forgot to add: “Oh noes!!1!1″
after “What if teh SATINISTS want to worship SATIN! What would happen then?”
@neal–The cervical cancer vaccine has been a big issue with some fundementalists. Brief background on it: there is a drive to make the vaccinations mandatory by the state, so insurance companies will be legally required to cover them. It’s an expensive vaccination–approx. $300. Now, this has upset fundementalists: “If you make it mandatory, then you’re encouraging teenage/premarital sex and sin! And my daughter would never engage in such unholy activity! So it shouldn’t be mandatory!!!” What they tend to ignore is the fact that parents can opt out of having their daughters get this vaccine, like they can opt out of any vaccine. The drive to make it mandatory has more to do with economics than any sort of morality worries. But, you get a few people with some narrow-minded beliefs who can theoretically screw it up for everyone. We’ll see how this all plays out.
@pieces o’ nine–”SATIN!!” *snicker*
Satin as an idle of worship?
That’s even more ridiculous than worshiping an invisible hermaphrodite!
Then, Tony, you aren’t truly a Christian, nor do you have any idea what REAL science is. You have just called God a liar, by your position, and you deny the reality of Genesis.
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First of all, having a PhD in imagination does not count for a thing. Finding it in a Cracker Jack box or buying it at Walmart does not amount to a hill of beans. You can have the entire alphabet behind your name and still be an idiot. And most who do are.
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Second of all, if anyone on this site has a shred of intelligence, I want you to provide an answer to this problem. Scientists have not been able to give an answer for it, because the only plausible answer “is unthinkable.” Here it is:
The nucleus has properties that force outward - they expel, or push out - so how is it that everything is held together?
Isn’t satin a type of fabric?
So they will wordship the god of Fashion?
Sorry I meant worship
@Rylore:
“The nucleus has properties that force outward - they expel, or push out - so how is it that everything is held together?’
> Have you not read the introductory info so thoughtfully provided by Bobby (may sauce be upon him)? It’s the noodly appendages.
> It is *just* this sort of question which drives intelligent people to pursue *science*, rather than saying, gee, I dunno, and declaring, “God did it. End of discussion.”
> Of course, anyone with a shred of intelligence already knows that, and either researches the available scientific evidence or pursues the study him/herself. ‘Cause it would be really kind of silly to ask it as a theological ‘gotcha’ question.
@Rylore
All nucleons (protons and neutrons) are attracted to each other through the Strong nuclear force. All particles of similar charge (a group of protons) are repelled by the Electromagnetic force (that you reference).The Strong force is stronger than the Electromagnetic force. The neutrons hold the nucleus together but you can’t just add more neutrons to make a nucleus stable because the neutron (two down quarks and up quark) would transform into a proton (two up quarks and a down quark), an electron, and an anti electron neutrino without the protons stabilizing it through the Weakly interacting nuclear force. If the nucleus is disturbed in the right way (say bombardment by a neutron moving at very high speeds) the balance is upset and the Strong force bonds between the nucleons are broken causing the Electromagnetic potential energy between the protons (along with the energy in the Strong bonds) to be transformed into kinetic, heat, and radiative energy.
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I’m surprised that somebody so confident in themselves about this didn’t pick that up that bit up in sophomore/junior (in high school) level chemistry/physics (or wikipedia, I mean, it’s right there!). I suggest that anybody unfamiliar with the basics of my last post should look up the wikipedia article on “atomic nucleus” and follow the relevant links.
i have to agee with you, even being a Christan, it doen’t mean that i will not enjoy the noddle goodness. while understand, that i will Not worship him, i enjoy the site.