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Jason Rosenhouse received his PhD in mathematics from Dartmouth College in 2000. He subsequently spent three years as a post-doc at Kansas State University. Observing the machinations of the Kansas Board of Education led to his unhealthy obsession with issues related to evolution and creationism. Currently he is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at James Madison University, in Harrisonburg, VA.
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« What I Really Think | Main | What is David Brooks Talking About? »
Okay, Joke's Over...
Category: Miscellaneous
Posted on: May 8, 2008 3:00 PM, by Jason Rosenhouse
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Cleverly done. Now I just have to figure out which commenters were serious...
Posted by: Graeme Elliott | May 8, 2008 3:07 PM
Graeme-
I had the same reaction! Just as some of the commenters weren't sure whether or not I was serious, I couldn't always tell whether the people treating the post as legit had really fallen for it, or were just playing along.
Posted by: Jason Rosenhouse | May 8, 2008 3:15 PM
A wise move, Dr. Rosenhouse. Take care that that one indiscretion remains the one indiscretion and we might have a use for you after all.
Posted by: Brownian | May 8, 2008 3:16 PM
You do know that you're going to get lots of messages from the ID and creationist movement because they think you're a perfect inside man now.... Congrats by the way!
Posted by: Graeme Elliott | May 8, 2008 3:18 PM
That was a great post. Thanks for the work day chuckle. I, unlike some of your commenters, read your blog often enough to have recognized the post for what it was.
Wendy
Posted by: longsmith | May 8, 2008 3:26 PM
One of the finest examples of Poe's law I've seen.
Posted by: Crake | May 8, 2008 3:36 PM
Awww, I was waiting for it to be quoted at Uncommon Descent!
Posted by: J | May 8, 2008 3:41 PM
Awww, just when we were getting into the best Blade Runner joke-and-pun sequence, too.
Posted by: Blake Stacey | May 8, 2008 3:46 PM
You ended it way too soon.
Posted by: Rob the Lurker FCD BMWCCA | May 8, 2008 3:49 PM
Yeah, count me in with Graeme, longsmith, et al. I think some of the commenters (here and at Pee Zed's New Atheist Joyhouse) were, amazingly, serious...?
Posted by: blf | May 8, 2008 3:54 PM
Close to achieving a successful "Turing test" of a simulated creationist. BTW, can Poe's law be formally proved?
Posted by: hje | May 8, 2008 3:58 PM
Ahh, so the evil darwinist conspiracy of big science can cow you back into submission even after you are tenured? Well, I suppose they can still dangle promotion to full professor over your head... Maybe we'll see CreationBlog back in another decade or so?
Posted by: IanR | May 8, 2008 4:19 PM
When someone starts quote mining your confession, this will really get interesting.
Posted by: Jim ramsey | May 8, 2008 4:33 PM
On the other hand, you have different fingers...
Posted by: pazuzu | May 8, 2008 4:48 PM
You should go back to the joke post and post a disclaimer in the comments. An amazingly large number of your readers still hasn't got it.
Posted by: David Marjanović | May 8, 2008 5:02 PM
Wait--does this mean you're not really coming to my Tuesday night bible study? Everyone was sooo excited.
Posted by: heddle | May 8, 2008 5:48 PM
It might have been difficult to separate the taken in from those with a clue, but it certainly was easy to find the rude comments.
A brilliant coup, Jason...very much Dobbs' approved!
Posted by: BobbyEarle | May 8, 2008 5:48 PM
heddle...
He may still show up.
But don't expect him to bring the donuts.
Posted by: BobbyEarle | May 8, 2008 5:50 PM
i knew you were joking because you didn't post in Comic Sans
Posted by: skyotter | May 8, 2008 5:53 PM
Well, I guess that Prof. Rosenhouse isn't Mr. Jon S after all!
Posted by: SLC | May 8, 2008 7:17 PM
Heh, I guess I should of been able to tell it was a joke, if only because, while ridiculous, it actually made more sense than most creationist/intelligent design advocates are capable of. I'm glad I asked if you were serious, rather than assuming so like most of the comments.
Ok, so there was a bit of assuming you were a crazy creationist, but not much! I mostly thought you were a crazy conspiracy theorist.
I think it's interesting though, that many reacted to your fake name calling with real name calling simply because PZ said you were a bad guy without also writing it was all a joke. Not only does it show how insane some IDers can be, that it was taken seriously, but gives a slightly uncomfortable look at how little critical thinking and evidence-searching takes place before those who consider themselves intelligent feel it appropriate to use some rather... nasty language.
Well, if anything positive can be taken from this, I've found a new blog to read.
Posted by: Matt Osborne | May 8, 2008 8:12 PM
So Jason, I guess this means you won't be looking for work up there in Kentucky with the other Dr. Jason (Jason Lisle) as your mentor at the Creation "Museum" afterall?
I'm still waiting for Lisle to fess up and admit that he's been spoofing everyone with his creation shtick.
Thanks for the chuckle - you made my day!
Posted by: brnofeathers | May 8, 2008 8:46 PM
You fools! You're falling for it! He's PRETENDING this was all a joke. Clearly he's just gone back into hiding.
Posted by: Jeremy | May 8, 2008 9:16 PM
Hey, if you were dumb enough to take that EXPELLED movie seriously, you were also dumb enough to take that previous entry by Rosenhouse seriously.
That was the actual point of that post, wasn't it?
Posted by: Dale Husband | May 8, 2008 10:44 PM
i knew you were joking because you didn't post in Comic Sans
Yeah, and not enough CAPS, totally GAVE IT AWAY!!!!
Congrats on tenure.
Posted by: Dave Bacon | May 8, 2008 11:34 PM
Sigh...people, it isn't a "law" it's Poe's THEORY.
hint: Next time you try to pull something like that off, you must make more egregious grammar and spelling errors. I could tell it was a fake because you managed to use "there", "their" and "they're" correctly.
Posted by: TheWireMonkey | May 8, 2008 11:57 PM
TheWireMonkey: I could tell it was a fake because you managed to use "there", "their" and "they're" correctly.
No, he punched that button too: "... science had proved their was no God."
Posted by: Pyre | May 9, 2008 12:25 AM
I'm with Jeremy. This post is the joke.
Posted by: Bob O'H | May 9, 2008 12:36 AM
I was looking forward to more creationist's posts here, with Jason both laying out some intelligent sounding argument he fabricates, then refuting it later on when the joke was over if no one else had.
Oh well.
Posted by: No One of Consequence | May 9, 2008 12:08 PM
OMG. There actually WERE people who thought you were serious.
...And I thought *I* was humorless. Damn. [boggles]
Posted by: Luna_the_cat | May 9, 2008 3:05 PM
You could've kept it up and see how the Tards take you into their fold.
Posted by: Barklikeadog | May 9, 2008 4:09 PM
Jason, you could have taken a bit longer before going back under cover in the viper-filled closet of Darwinianismism. Anyway, it looks like your latest post has WORKED. You have them all fooled that the other post was just a JOKE. They'll find out one day.
Well done, and the rest of YOu: watch out and bewarw of the wjoer of Babylon and the Great Beast (who is almost herre, and you KNOW who it is, don't you?)/
Posted by: Russell Blackford | May 9, 2008 10:52 PM
Thanks for the chuckle - you made my day!
Posted by: tabuhan | May 10, 2008 9:35 AM
Great, you realize you've just screwed yourself out of the next Templeton Prize by admitting the joke.
Posted by: Paul T. | May 10, 2008 11:12 AM
I saw that post; what I got a kick out of was him using some of the same phrases that the Moonie Wells used when he was talking about why he went after "Darwinism".
Posted by: Reynold Hall | May 13, 2008 4:52 PM