One of the more disturbing photos on the internet
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Posted on: November 11, 2007 9:48 AM, by PZ Myers
I'm only linking to this horror because I'm a militant atheist and I want you to lose your faith in a beneficent god.
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Thank you for making me even more of an atheist than I already was.
Posted by: Brandon P. | November 11, 2007 9:53 AM
Oh dear God I mean Science I mean aaarrrggghhhh
Iä! Iä! Shub Niggurath!
Posted by: andy | November 11, 2007 10:26 AM
Hey, that photo is irreducibly complex.
Posted by: danley | November 11, 2007 10:28 AM
Nuthin a box of Aqua Dots and a paper bag couldn't fix..
snark!
Posted by: skunqesh | November 11, 2007 10:35 AM
A mutant octopus squirting orange juice from its breasts? Fine! But not this! By the Rainbow Serpent's scaly hide, not this!
Posted by: Ronald Brak | November 11, 2007 10:59 AM
Oh, great. Now I'm not only old and fat, but now I'm gay. Thanks PZ
Posted by: Bert Chadick | November 11, 2007 1:21 PM
Great Darwin's Galapagos that burned out my retina. Curses, curses!
Posted by: Inoculated Mind | November 11, 2007 4:36 PM
"Well, boys... good thing we brought the eye soap!"
-- Ned Flanders
Posted by: TheTickingMindbomb | November 11, 2007 5:21 PM
I so hope that he is wearing underpants!
Posted by: KiwiInOz | November 11, 2007 6:33 PM
Ah! So Behe was really talking about the bacterial flagellant...
Posted by: Ian H Spedding FCD | November 11, 2007 7:26 PM
before I rip my eyes out. . .
I never was a Lindsey Lohan fan, and now I know why!
Posted by: DLC | November 11, 2007 7:37 PM
P.Z., your credibility shouldn't be going to the lowest bidder -- why literally stoop to caricatures? If you could have proven Behe wrong, you would have by now.
Vitriol is the "CHECK ENGINE" light of any ideology.
Posted by: wnelson | November 11, 2007 11:39 PM
@wnelson: Lighten up, Puritan. It's an obvious Photoshop hackjob and it's childishly funny. Remember childhood? Humor? Why don't you sit down a bit with a nice beer and think about it?
Posted by: speedwell | November 12, 2007 12:35 AM
wnelson: "Vitriol is the 'CHECK ENGINE' light of any ideology."
1. That's a lie. Vitriol has a long, time-honored tradition in debate. Sometimes it's justified, sometimes it's not.
2. This is less vitriol than it is parody or maybe satire. Also time-honored traditions.
3. So your comment is just a variation on the old creationist favorite, "You evolutionists are getting so upset - that must mean I'm right."
4. Which ideology do you refer to? Neither evolutionary theory nor atheism are ideologies.
5. Shut the hell up. Now, that's vitriol.
Posted by: MPW | November 12, 2007 12:58 AM
Sorry guys, if Myers had a proverbial gun at his disposal, he wouldn't be groping for a club.
Posted by: wnelson | November 12, 2007 1:24 AM
'Myers' doesnt have the 'proverbial gun,' troll.
1. Theres more than one gun.
2. We all have several.
And speaking of things not being funny, I assume youre going to go to Uncommon Descent and post about sexism being the lowest of the low arguments? How if Behe held the 'proverbial gun' to evolutions head, he wouldnt have to respond to my claims with 'zero' science and 100% sexism? No? You realize that that photoshop would have been impossible without Behes sexism, right? Could it be, youre just an internet troll?
Posted by: ERV | November 12, 2007 7:06 AM
"Vitriol is the "CHECK ENGINE" light of any ideology."
It strikes me that if this were true, wouldn't Christianity have collapsed by now, underminded by the famous exchange when a certain Samuel Wilberforce employed a rather crude ad hominem at a certain Thomas Huxley.
Posted by: The Ag | November 12, 2007 7:18 AM
As the sole creator of the atrocity under consideration, I'd just like to point out that I don't consider it to be "vitriol." Vitriol is a separate artform. The "LiLo" thing was a parody. Yes, it was intended to make fun of Behe.
Since I have no standing in science other than being a fan-boi, I don't mind people considering me a jerk. However, I was very offended by Behe's sexism toward Abbie Smith (ERV) in his Amazon blog. That was the direct cause that propelled me to do the parody. I can think of nobody more deserving of derision than a "scientist" who doesn't do science, but only stands on the sidelines and throws stones at his betters like ERV. Now he wants criticisms by more famous scientists whom he feels would better soothe his ego were they the ones to point out his ignorance.
Behe's been pwned -- by a girl! -- and he just can't stand it. Go, Abbie, go!
For any of you who got a laugh out of the parody, that's great. For any of you who hated it, I'm just fine with that, too.
-- HalfMooner
Posted by: HalfMooner | November 12, 2007 8:42 AM
Mrs Garrison is Hot
Posted by: Richard Dawkins | November 12, 2007 4:03 PM
Oh, Richard! You are going to make "LiLo" so depressed.
Posted by: HalfMooner | November 12, 2007 7:12 PM
why literally stoop to caricatures?
PZ literally stooped?
You're an effing moron, wnelson, and any claim about a connection between vitriol and correctness is ignorant ad hominem twaddle.
Posted by: truth machine | November 13, 2007 6:03 AM
wnelson, creationist troll @ #12:
Oh, yeah, that's such a terrible thing to do. It's like, say, making a video full of badly-photoshopped pictures of your critics with a soundtrack of fart noises. And we all know no one at the Dishonesty Institute would ever stoop that low.
wnelson, brain-dead creationist troll (but I repeat myself):
News flash, asshat, Behe has already been proven wrong COUNTLESS times. This caricature you make such a show of being offended by is making fun of Behe's own sexist remarks one of those many times. If Behe hadn't been too insecure to handle being proven wrong by a girl, this picture wouldn't exist, and you'd have to find some other bullshit to give you the vapors. Not that your ilk ever has trouble bullshitting.
Posted by: phantomreader42 | July 3, 2008 1:56 PM