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Category: Creationism • Kooks
Posted on: April 5, 2008 11:00 AM, by PZ Myers
Oh, but I do rankle Mark Armitage. He has taken to cc'ing me his email to others, all in this bluff, indignant, "me am too a scientist" pose, and it is hilarious. This is probably the last one I'll post here, but I do hope he keeps sending me this stuff — it provides a moment of levity.
Hello there,
How've you been lately? Things have been busy on my end. I'm enjoying my internship though.
Anyhow, I thought you might be interested to see this, if you already haven't. I've long been a reader of PZ Myers' blog (for reasons that I like to call "opponent research") and, although I'm not sure what exactly he is referring to, I'm very angry that he's insulting you. I trust you, and I don't trust him, so, honestly, I'm pretty ticked.
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/04/i_get_email_13.php#more
You have your supporters!
Spencer
Hi Spencer, Nice to hear from you. I've been busy. My book called "Jesus is like my Scanning Electron Microscope" has been published, I had an awesome hands-on microscope workshop at the lab in AZ with 15 students who learned about microscopy in the Bible and the evidence for a young earth (complete with electron microscopes), and I have heard from another 6 schools there that want to have a workshop. Plus, the all day symposium at UC Irvine for our local microscopy society featuring several nationally known speakers attracted a good crowd.
Yeah it is awesome about Putrid Zany Myers huh?! I wonder how many times I can get that worm to mention me on his rag of a blog. Maybe he will next criticize my work on radiohalos in granites and helium in zircons - oh yes, and radiohalos in diamonds (all published in secular journals). I hope he does. If he did his homework he would see my papers in Parasitology Research, Microscopy and Microanalysis and the Southern California Academy of Sciences, plus American Laboratory.
Maybe he could organize a letter writing campaign to the editors of those journals to expunge my work and forever strike it from existence. Especially the radiohalos in diamonds since I am the only one on the planet to publish them to date...
But that is what makes him such a buffoon of a bully. He alone could win more people over to our side than we could. It is amazing - the more they spit and curse at us creationists, the more people give up on evolution. That is why pagans like Myers are so spitting mad. I love it! He doesn't even have the decency to reply to my direct email to him but he has to dump it out to his blog...how funny is that? Let's see if he posts this one too - you could be famous Spencer.
But don't be angry - Paul said to count it all joy when men (pagans?) revile you. Its all good.
So I am glad your internship is going well. Keep your head down and learn all you can about the fossil work. Soon you will begin to see the lazy thinking and assumptions they make.
With regards to you and your Dad.
Mark Armitage, M.S., Ed.S
Van Andel Creation Research Center
Creation Research Society
It's true! He actually has published a book called Jesus is like my Scanning Electron Microscope! You just can't make this stuff up. I do like how it is categorized as religious fiction.
Microscopes, and even electron microscopes, are in the bible? Maybe he should talk about that at his meetings of the Southern California Society for Microscopy and Microanalysis. I'd like to hear about that.
I don't need to criticize his work on radiohalos, though. It's already been done, very effectively.
Oh, and Mark — I'm not "spitting mad" — I'm laughing. You are the joke that keeps on giving.
Comments
ROTFL!
Posted by: David Marjanović, OM | April 5, 2008 11:08 AM
....learned about MICROSCOPY in the BIBLE.
There are no words.
Also, he can't even tell an atheist from a pagan?
Posted by: Jen R | April 5, 2008 11:08 AM
Wow, just wow.
Posted by: MAJeff, OM | April 5, 2008 11:10 AM
Oh, look, it's a self-published book. Color me unsurprised.
Posted by: Narc | April 5, 2008 11:12 AM
Oh man, when I first started reading that I thought you were making it up as a joke. Jesus is like my Scanning Electron Microscope! I might put that on a t-shirt if I didn't think he'd sue me.
Posted by: Rebecca Watson | April 5, 2008 11:14 AM
I think the surest sign that Armitage is horrible at science is the fact that you critiqued one of his papers and he essentially offers his CV as a defense. An actual scientist would realize that each paper is either good or bad on its own merit, not his. I don't care if he found a grand unified theory, that paper was garbage, and it deserves no respect because he may have published real research before.
Posted by: Jim RL | April 5, 2008 11:18 AM
That Jesus guy sure gets around. Not only is he a electron microscope, but he is also a managed care plan. He is regular Renaissance man.
Posted by: carlsonjok | April 5, 2008 11:24 AM
So is Moses like his radio spectrometer (5.2-7.6 GHz)?
Posted by: Alex | April 5, 2008 11:24 AM
"... although I'm not sure what exactly he is referring to, I'm very angry that he's insulting you. I trust you, and I don't trust him, so, honestly, I'm pretty ticked."
Truthfully, I'd be embarassed if my supporters were like that... was Armitage just using this guy as some sort of excuse to bother PZ? "What a badly-worded email! I think I'll reply to it with a lengthy attempt of intelligence and cc-it to that dastardly PZ!"
Posted by: Tirumari | April 5, 2008 11:29 AM
Wow, a whole 72 pages too (I wonder what size print?) And it's a bargain, too! I demand a review! ;)
Posted by: Kcanadensis | April 5, 2008 11:30 AM
Putrid Zany Myers.
Weep, weep for the language
devalued in the mouths of these dolts.
Posted by: Peter Mc | April 5, 2008 11:35 AM
I never cease to be amused by the number of times that these creo-drones mistake your giddy amusement with being lividly angry. I'd hate to see these people at a comedy show. "Hello 911! The man next to me is smiling from ear to ear and clutching his sides in laughter! I'm almost certain he's about to kill someone in his blind rage!"
Posted by: HumanisticJones | April 5, 2008 11:37 AM
Posted by: Bob O'H | April 5, 2008 11:38 AM
I had an awesome hands-on microscope workshop at the lab in AZ with 15 students who learned about microscopy in the Bible and the evidence for a young earth (complete with electron microscopes), and I have heard from another 6 schools there that want to have a workshop...[snip] If he did his homework he would see my papers in Parasitology Research...
Must have been the special autobiographical issue of Parisitology Research.
Posted by: inkadu | April 5, 2008 11:44 AM
Well, the research he used is from the late 1800's and 1930's. Heck, with research data like the, the IDiots just might make groundbreaking dicsoveries like nuclear engineering by 2390.
Posted by: firemancarl | April 5, 2008 11:46 AM
"It is amazing - the more they spit and curse at us creationists, the more people give up on evolution."
If that truly is one of the reasons people would 'side with' creationists, then those people are too stupid for us to want on our side.
But it is funny that he essentially gave his CV as a defense of a claim. A creationist named Richard Alexander has claimed that because he did well on the SAT and the ASVAB that he rankes among the top percent in the country in terms of scientific literacy.
Posted by: slpage | April 5, 2008 11:49 AM
Posted by: alex | April 5, 2008 11:53 AM
Here is his publication list. Winnow out the listed papers on which his name actually does not appear (he "assisted with research"), the cover photomicrographs listed as if peer-reviewed, and the creation-syunss "journals" and it looks like he a) sees things in rocks nobody else does and b) has found a fluke or two in a fish.
I quit! Evolution's a fraud! God did it!
You've just lost another one, Putrid Zany.
Posted by: Sven DiMilo | April 5, 2008 11:57 AM
It's shelved next to my books "Odin is like my Powder Diffractometer" and "Zeus is like my Precession Camera".
Posted by: NJ | April 5, 2008 11:59 AM
Oh, and:
Aaaaaaaaahhhhhh ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!1!11!!
Posted by: Sven DiMilo | April 5, 2008 11:59 AM
Speaking as a former creationist myself, I'd like to congratulate Spencer on doing "opponent research," and I hope he continues to do so.
Posted by: Deacon Duncan | April 5, 2008 12:03 PM
He uses the word "secular" like it's a bad thing.
Really? There are "secular" science journals?
I thought they were just . . . science journals. From the perspective of science.
Posted by: BMS | April 5, 2008 12:05 PM
Damn I almost saw some JAD coming out there.
Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp | April 5, 2008 12:06 PM
..and in case anyone is wondering? American Laboratory is an advertising rag, not a peer-reviewed journal. Though I guess it is "secular."
Posted by: Sven DiMilo | April 5, 2008 12:07 PM
Putrid Zany (you KNOW we're going to call you that from now on), I didn't know you had converted to paganism! What form, if I may ask? Which of the many sets of recognized deistic pantheons do you believe in, or are you a monotheistic (with or without the dual/male-female nature)?
Apparently, if you're not Christian, it doesn't matter what you are - pagans and atheists are equally bad.
Posted by: Seamyst | April 5, 2008 12:14 PM
No, it was just men... because NOBODY liked Paul. On one memorable occasion, a governor (I forget of what place) kept him in prison as a favor to the Jews and the Christians. One has the impression that both appreciated it.
This is just another example of how Paul ruined Xianity. Without Paul, there would at least be a core doctrine that was moderately respectable. Without Paul, we wouldn't have to deal with a lot of the crap that we do. It was Paul that contradicted the words of Christ so as to suggest that any form of biblical literalism could be warranted. Paul is entirely responsible for the punitive attitude toward sex and contraception (along with Augustine), and for the mess with the gays.
One can almost think that Paul was thinking, "Gosh, I sure hate those Xians. How can I totally screw up their religion? I know! I'll pretend to convert!"
Ever gotten into an argument with one of those "God hates Gays/Libertines/Shellfish/Etc" street preachers? Try challenging them to quote something from the new testament that isn't Paul. They can't find anything. Nothing, bupkis. They're going on Leviticus and Corinthians.
Gawd. Paul. He's comparing himself to Paul. How... surprisingly apt.
Posted by: lytefoot | April 5, 2008 12:17 PM
"Also, he can't even tell an atheist from a pagan?"
Having been part of that life at one point, I know that "pagan" is the catch-all word many fundamentalist Christians use to describe people who are not "saved." Doesn't matter of they're describing an atheist, Jew, Muslim, Buddhist or what have you -- they're all "pagans." (Among the real hardcore fundies, even Catholics and Mormons are pagans.)
Posted by: Phil | April 5, 2008 12:17 PM
HumanisticJones (12)
I never cease to be amused by the number of times that these creo-drones mistake your giddy amusement with being lividly angry.
Isn't insane rage and projecting that insane rage on other people a hallmark of conservatism? Remember how it wasn't that Bush isn't a bumbling incompetent, it's that we hated him? There are plenty of other examples, although the Hillary-hate has toned down a bit. I'm not sure if the pundits are worried about feminist backlash or if there are enough post-Boomer guys out there that it seems insane to way too many people. Remember, they still hate Jane Fonda and Yoko Ono. How many twenty-somethings have any idea what happened with that? Even middle-aged me has no recollection of Hanoi Jane's antics and the Beatles breaking up. Honestly, I don't really care about either one. People use free speech and rock bands break up. So what? Oh, and John Kerry threw his medals. Oh, scandal! No scandal so far about how John McCain actively worked to prevent Arizona from having MLK's birthday as a holiday. Now that he's running for President, he's sorry. He was a youngster of 47 when he did that, he can be excused. [/sarcasm]
http://www.kutv.com/content/news/topnews/story.aspx?content_id=bf65dda1-a3d5-4aa9-9fea-14b430d93cce
Posted by: Mena | April 5, 2008 12:18 PM
Jesus is like my scanning electron microscope: only useful when you see through it.
Posted by: Dennis | April 5, 2008 12:20 PM
'Putrid Zany Myers' - your next Halloween costume perhaps?!?
Posted by: Sara Davidson | April 5, 2008 12:20 PM
I've got this picture in my head of this long-haired beardy guy (sorry, as a kid I was conditioned to think jebus looked like Robert Powell) saying to a group of onlookers byt the shores of the sea of galilea "Here, I will show you the wonders of god through this electron microscope" followed by a "Doh!" moment when he tries to plug the thing in.
Posted by: AlanWCan | April 5, 2008 12:22 PM
Sometimes I'm embarrassed to be from Grand Rapids, MI - the same place as the Van Andels. Van Andels as in Van Andel Creation Research Center. Also, the same folks that brought you Amway - that's how the Van Andel's made their billions - selling shitty $6 tubes of toothpaste. I guess if they're going to make their money in shit - they might as well spend their money on shit.
Posted by: jjdiogenes | April 5, 2008 12:24 PM
Jesus is nothing at all like my isotope ratio mass spectrometer.
Damn thing is unforgiving.
Posted by: Sven DiMilo | April 5, 2008 12:27 PM
You've got to love the continual presentation of his credentials like a cat dropping a dead rat at your feet.
So impressive too, an M.S. AND an Ed.S. from the prestigious Institute for Creation Research Graduate School. Worthy to be added to every email. I expect he has it embroidered on his underpants too.
Posted by: Quidam | April 5, 2008 12:31 PM
But don't be angry - Paul said to count it all joy when men (pagans?) revile you. Its all good.
Well so what's the problem then? LoL.
I think Mr. Armitage may even have gotten that one screwed up. I think it was Jesus he was kind of quoting there, not Paul. I could be wrong though. But it wouldn't suprise me if he got it mixed up.
Just like how he gets his pictures mixed up, bass backwards, upside down, sideways, who knows. You never know with that guy.
I'd call him "Wrong Way" Armitage, but "Wrong Way" Corrigan actually went the right way he wanted to go. Nothing like Mr. "Bass Baskwards" Armitage.
Posted by: 386sx | April 5, 2008 12:32 PM
Well, at least he spelled "Myers" correctly.
Now I don't want to make fun of you, Spencer, but "Anyhow, I thought you might be interested to see this, if you already haven't."? Is that how you speak? I must say that the more non-standard English I see, the more fascinated I get.
Oh! You're all wrong about Armitage's book. It's obviously entitled "Jesus is, like, my Scanning Electron Microscope".
Posted by: Sili | April 5, 2008 12:40 PM
Wow, Prof. Zany, you've been outed as a pagan! Welcome to the club.
Posted by: Patricia C. | April 5, 2008 12:47 PM
Yes PZ is a Pagan. BTW, where's my monthly offering? I'm starving! This creationist will do...
Posted by: Cthulhu | April 5, 2008 12:48 PM
Isn't that cute - PZ has a stalker!!
Please don't stop posting his emails. Reading them is one of my guilty pleasures.
Posted by: Cheezits | April 5, 2008 12:48 PM
"Putrid Zany Myers... worm to mention me on his rag of a blog... buffoon of a bully..."
I thought people were supposed to love their enemies, resist not evil, and "count it all joy when men (pagans?) revile you." Couldn't be that the Bible gives out bad advice, or that certain people are posers who don't really believe all the stuff in Bible could it? Nah...
Posted by: 386sx | April 5, 2008 12:53 PM
The all men revile you thing is Matthew 5:11.
I've long since stopped being surprised when people who throw bible quotes around actually have only the vaguest idea of what is in the damn thing.
Posted by: Don | April 5, 2008 12:54 PM
PZ, I can't believe you took the time to find that critique, but I'm glad you did. Friggin' hilarious.
There needs to be a stronger word than "ouch"! Holy (wholly) crap!
My hat's way off to Dr. Kurt Hollocher!
Posted by: Nic Nicholson | April 5, 2008 12:56 PM
Did anyone catch the editor's comment on the book?
((gag))
Posted by: Dorid | April 5, 2008 12:56 PM
WTF!
"Product Description
Electron microscopes operate in an unworldly vacuum and with an electron beam generated by many tens of thousands of volts. Similarly, when I become a Christian, I am invited to operate in an otherworldly environment, and with the energy generated by the Creator of the universe."
When I become StuPID, I be christianny
Posted by: The Pale Scot | April 5, 2008 12:58 PM
The all men revile you thing is Matthew 5:11.
I've long since stopped being surprised when people who throw bible quotes around actually have only the vaguest idea of what is in the damn thing.
Well, that's why they call him "lazy thinking and assumptions" Armitage.
They don't call him "Bass Baskwards" Armitage for nothin, you know!!
Posted by: 386sx | April 5, 2008 12:58 PM
"One can almost think that Paul was thinking, "Gosh, I sure hate those Xians. How can I totally screw up their religion? I know! I'll pretend to convert!"
Paul, the Jonathan Wells of Xianity?
Posted by: tes | April 5, 2008 1:00 PM
Microscope! Microscope! MICROSCOPE!
I want to use my microscope
I want to use my scope
I want to use my microscope
I want to look at what I like
Dammit it didn't rhyme.
Posted by: LH | April 5, 2008 1:11 PM
"Ever gotten into an argument with one of those "God hates Gays/Libertines/Shellfish/Etc" street preachers? Try challenging them to quote something from the new testament that isn't Paul. They can't find anything. Nothing, bupkis. They're going on Leviticus and Corinthians."
Next time, ask them what they think of Bishop John Shelby Spong's observation that the Epistles make much more sense if you assume that Paul was gay.
Posted by: anon1234 | April 5, 2008 1:18 PM
Maybe someone already noticed this, but this guy's publisher is a vanity press called iUniverse.
http://www.iuniverse.com/
Posted by: Jack McCullough | April 5, 2008 1:27 PM
He's right tho, I'm aboutt to renounce from the insane belief in evolution and turn to the dark side and become creationist after years of reading PZ...
And then I'm going to drink margaritas all day, with a little umbrella at the top...
maybe I could even start a cult, and but the golden gate %)
Posted by: Mytho | April 5, 2008 1:31 PM
Posted by: John C. Welch | April 5, 2008 1:31 PM
He found a microscope in the bible, what is he smoking?
Posted by: baley | April 5, 2008 1:44 PM
I think that this phenomenon of Lying for Jesus is becoming so apparent and pervasive that it now justifies a book on the topic. I'm sure that PZ alone has enough material to create a book-length volume.
Posted by: Richard | April 5, 2008 1:48 PM
I rather like the bit in his resume
That pretty much acknowledges that a) he failed and b) he thinks failing over 5 years at a real university counts for as much as a degree from Liberty.
Mind you given Florida's push for legally protected 'Academic Freedom' to proselytise Creationism it may not qualify as a 'real university' for much longer.
Posted by: Quidam | April 5, 2008 2:03 PM
I've personally concluded the best tactic to battle creationist claims is to point out the humor accompanied with a genuine laugh! ... I never expected they'd be such eager participants in that strategy ;-)
Posted by: Ben Abbott | April 5, 2008 2:03 PM
Personal favorite mistake pointed out in the critique you linked to:
2. The mention on page 25 of "electron microprobe mass spectrometry analysis" is a mistake; there is no such analytical instrument.
You just can't make guys like this up...
Posted by: Bouncing Bosons | April 5, 2008 2:13 PM
Rev. Chimp @#23: I was just about to make the same comment. Just add a "so" to the end of that quote and you've got JAD. His tone and style are very similar. Must be a common characteristic of the crank psychology.
Posted by: Norm | April 5, 2008 2:15 PM
Worthy to be added to every email. I expect he has it embroidered on his underpants too.
of course!
Surely, since the mormons get magic underpants, the True(tm) favored of Gawd must get an equivalent?
Posted by: Ichthyic | April 5, 2008 2:15 PM
Keep 'em comin' Mark, MS, Ed.S . . . .
Your scholarship and writing skills are terrific examples of creationist twaddle. Plus, they're funny!
Posted by: waldteufel | April 5, 2008 2:20 PM
There are 5 tags associated with his book on Amazon's page; cult, fiction, pseudoscience, comic relief, and absolute lunacy. I'm guessing a few of those were applied this morning...
Posted by: Neslock | April 5, 2008 2:22 PM
Jesus is nothing at all like my isotope ratio mass spectrometer.
Damn thing is unforgiving.
have you tried nailing it to a big piece of wood?
Posted by: AlanWCan | April 5, 2008 2:24 PM
I presume that this clown is spamming Dr Hollocher as well. Hollocher's rebuttal of Armitage's "research" is even more damning (can I use that word in this family-friendly blog?) than PZ's.
What a weirdo. He should get out more.
Posted by: Carl | April 5, 2008 2:26 PM
The books about astronomy,
Like Acts and Deutoronomy,
Are but a partial list of those in which I have reliance.
Biology's dependent on
The First and Second books of John
And Genesis and Exodus? There's nothing there but science.
The physicist who never fudges
Follows Joshua and Judges;
Daniel and Ezekiel show molar calculations.
In First and Second Timothy,
Electron-scan microscopy
Completes the compound microscopic treatment in Galatians.
The Chronicles of Higher Ed--
Both First and Second, which I've read,
Confirm for me the value of an honest education.
An education such as this,
That starts, of course, in Genesis,
And doesn't give a Ph. D. 'til after Revelation.
http://digitalcuttlefish.blogspot.com/2008/04/bible-as-textbook.html
Posted by: Cuttlefish, OM | April 5, 2008 2:31 PM
"Bass Backwards"(?) - I always heard/knew it as 'bass ackwards', used as a euphemistic spoonerism for 'ass backwards'.
Posted by: blzbubba | April 5, 2008 2:34 PM
WOW! I cannot believe these people are real. Wow.
Posted by: LisaJ | April 5, 2008 2:44 PM
I would say he is misinterpreting Emily Dickinson's poem.
Posted by: Erp | April 5, 2008 2:45 PM
I HAS A LECTRON MICROSCOPE!
Posted by: Rey Fox | April 5, 2008 2:49 PM
Posted by: Sili | April 5, 2008 2:51 PM
Bass backwards…
The bass player's the jerk. Usually it's the drummer. ;-)
Posted by: blf | April 5, 2008 2:53 PM
Cuttlefish never ceases to leave me in awe.
Posted by: Martin | April 5, 2008 2:54 PM
Re #64: or, maybe, spooneristic euphemism.
Posted by: blzbubba | April 5, 2008 2:56 PM
This gives me more encouragement to publish my book entitled "Jesus is like my imaginary friend."
Posted by: Michael X | April 5, 2008 3:00 PM
"Dammit it didn't rhyme."
Hmm...
'There once was a man with a scanning electron microscope...
Who thought it better than...' Oh this will never work...
Posted by: scote | April 5, 2008 3:02 PM
Since I saw the post about Armitage's 'paper' the other day I've been searching for the right description of it and it just occurred to me that it is like primary school 'show and tell'. Armitage has taken some pictures and says some stuff about them that he got from some old books that happened to be lying around at home. Then the teacher pats him on the head and asks the class to clap for him and and he sits down, all proud of himself.
Posted by: Mike from Ottawa | April 5, 2008 3:08 PM
Just as I predicted four more states are presenting versions of the Florida bill.
After this movie is out and on video as well I figure about 40 states will be filing legislation.
But I can't wait until people are routinely dunking evos in piles of goat manure for entertainment.
I think western society might recover true science and the search for truth in about a decade if we can get the hard core blasphemous evos all on devils island.
The honest truth is that I am more amazed every day that I examine these post sites at the abject stupidity of the evolander med-school dropouts.
The only upside is you didn't go to law school.
Posted by: keith | April 5, 2008 3:14 PM
Are we sure these people aren't actually trying to help our side? This level of silliness almost seems deliberate! I really have to read about electron microscopes in the bible. I can't wait to see how sophisticated it is! Maybe we should just stop doing research and just get all our new technology from the bible. (You know, after I wrote that, it's almost scary that creationists actually think that would work!)
Posted by: BadMA | April 5, 2008 3:18 PM
@Keith #75
I call parody. I know, Poe's Law makes it tricky and all, but goat manure? C'mon.
Posted by: DrFrank | April 5, 2008 3:19 PM
"Jesus is like my scanning electron microscope."
So, your scanning electron microscope exists only in your imagination then, right?
Posted by: Milo Johnson | April 5, 2008 3:20 PM
MICROSCOPY in the BIBLE...
Oh my...
Posted by: Dahan | April 5, 2008 3:21 PM
Narc at #4
"Oh, look, it's a self-published book. Color me unsurprised."
From iUniverse's home page, "Packages start at just $399!". Sure looks like a vanity press outfit.
George
Posted by: George E. Martin | April 5, 2008 3:23 PM
Quidam at #54
"164 undergrad hours in Biology, University of Florida, 1973-78"
Man that seems like a hell of a lot of hours. When and where I went to school, science courses were credited with 3 or 5 hours depending on how much lab there was in the course. And then there were those other mundane courses one had to take to get a degree like maybe some English, History, Math, ....
George
Posted by: George E. Martin | April 5, 2008 3:36 PM
While I was reading that e-mail, when I got to "Jesus is like my Scanning Electron Microscope" I figured you had to be kidding! That is fucking hilarious!
Posted by: PhysioProf | April 5, 2008 3:52 PM
This guy is like a very dumb Robert Gentry; at least Gentry did some legit work before revealing how batshit he is.
BTW, what is it with these guys and seeing halos in fossils? Dead giveaway that these guys aren't Catholic: Catholics would see the Virgin Mary attached to the halos.
Posted by: Aquaria | April 5, 2008 4:00 PM
Consult the Book of Microscopy!
Microscopy Chapter 2, verses 9 through 21.
"And Saint Armitage sat before the scanning electron microscope, saying, "O Lord, bless this Thy scanning electron microscope, that with it Thou mayest image tiny things, in Thy mercy...."
Posted by: J | April 5, 2008 4:02 PM
From the Amazon page on Jesus is Like my Scanning Electron Microscope: (I can't believe I just wrote those words...)
Tags Customers Associate with This Product
First tag: psuedoscience (Mr. Trent M. Toulouse on April 5, 2008)
Last tag: psuedoscience
psuedoscience (19)
cult (14)
fiction (14)
absolute lunacy (13)
comic relief (11)
humor (5)
Posted by: Chris L | April 5, 2008 4:07 PM
#75 keith:
Louisiana, Missouri, and...? What are the other two states? Enlighten us.
Posted by: J | April 5, 2008 4:13 PM
More like "biotrite."
Posted by: danley | April 5, 2008 4:21 PM
iUniverse--HAHAHAHA. My husband used to work for them, building web pages. Seriously. At this very moment, I can looksee about ten items around our home office that has the iU logo on it. Mostly, the little desk clock, since that's the one on my desk. They were always sending out little gizmos like that. And t-shirts. They were real big on t-shirts.
iU isn't the brightest bulb in the vanity press , er, universe. They stay in business thanks to another section of the company that provides massive electronic file storage for corporations, or something like that. I remember that it was the bread-and-butter side of the house, and the vanity press was a sideline, albeit one they hoped to grow into something more.
Barnes & Noble paired up with them for a while (may have even been bought out by them--not sure anymore). I remember seeing displays to "publish yourself!" in the stores when Mr. Aquaria worked for them. iUniverse had a lot of grand ideas about being the e-book company of the future, or some such nonsense. Yeah. We see how that's turned out.
Posted by: Aquaria | April 5, 2008 4:23 PM
I have to admit, that looks like the best book on Jesus and electron microscopy that I've ever seen.
Posted by: Reginald Selkirk | April 5, 2008 4:26 PM
for Cuttlefish @ 63:
hahaha! doing a bit of Gilbert and Sullivan ?
I couldn't help but think of "Modern Major General" while reading your reply.
What's disturbing to me is the idea that this guy
A) has access to a scanning electron microscope.
and
B) has access to children whose minds are more easily filled with mush.
Posted by: DLC | April 5, 2008 4:31 PM
It keeps growing! I hope theres more people doing this than just us.
Tags Customers Associate with This Product
First tag: psuedoscience (Mr. Trent M. Toulouse on April 5, 2008)
Last tag: self published
Sort by:
psuedoscience (20)
absolute lunacy (14)
cult (14)
fiction (14)
comic relief (11)
humor (5)
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Posted by: Paul Johnson | April 5, 2008 4:44 PM
The tags. Priceless.
Anyway, Cthulhu is like my microfiche reader (he makes the uninitiated very, very seasick).
Posted by: catta | April 5, 2008 4:49 PM
Of course Jesus had an electron microscope. How else could he have seen that wee little man, Zaccheus?
Posted by: Dwimr | April 5, 2008 4:58 PM
"Especially the radiohalos in diamonds since I am the only one on the planet to publish them to date..."
He does realize that never having your research independantly verified is a bad thing, right?
Posted by: Ooparts | April 5, 2008 4:59 PM
Spelling pedant over here...
Um, maybe someone needs to point out that "pseudoscience" has the "eu" in that order?
I'm just saying...
Posted by: Owlmirror | April 5, 2008 5:11 PM
The ISI record reports 0 citations for his nematode de farce from 2000. Those creationsts who wade into peer review find that Lotka's law is a double-edged sword.
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Ha!