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Of Pandas and People isn't green!

Category: Creationism • Humor
Posted on: June 25, 2008 3:09 PM, by PZ Myers

But you should still watch this retelling of the ID saga, as it would be written by Dr Seuss.

Comments

Posted by: Noodle | June 25, 2008 3:28 PM

OMG! ROFLMAO! What more can you say?

Posted by: Glen Davidson | June 25, 2008 3:31 PM

A little weak in the causal regime.

Plus, Sal has always liked both rehashed and original Ken Ham (he's at least been YEC most of the time since we've encountered him).

Cute, though.

God made the pig's ham/the same day he made Adam/ancestor of Ken Ham. I like it on the train/on the plane/and scrambling my brain. Sal-I-am/with a skull full of spam.

Glen D
http://tinyurl.com/2kxyc7

Posted by: Aquaria | June 25, 2008 3:35 PM

Hee hee. That was pretty cute. I especially liked the Monty Python God popping open the ID-denier's brain and letting his brain bounce out as being the only way to make ID believable.

Posted by: Jacques | June 25, 2008 3:37 PM

Goddamned flash, crashed my browser 6 times before I disabled the flash plugin for Firefox 3.

Posted by: Alex | June 25, 2008 3:38 PM

That was good fun. Love the Dr..

Posted by: Coturnix | June 25, 2008 3:51 PM

That reminds me of this....

Posted by: Holbach | June 25, 2008 3:54 PM

Well done, but still uneasy to see Darwin's head on a plate! It should have been a huge hambone with the note "Ken" on it! Even funnier!

Posted by: brnofeathers | June 25, 2008 4:05 PM

So PZ,
How the heck could you biologists have missed this??? ;)

http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/aid/v2/n1/unicorns-in-bible

Posted by: Metro | June 25, 2008 4:17 PM

Uh ... you mean he wasn't the original author?

#10

Posted by: thegomezsymbol | June 25, 2008 5:00 PM

#8 That was great!
- So the UNIcorns may have one OR TWO horns, and
- While they are slightly smaller than elephants, they skip like calves?
- Best of all, the entry was tagged as "semi-technical", that has to mean something like "kind'a like true, but not exactly".

#11

Posted by: wildcardjack | June 25, 2008 5:06 PM

Sigh...

I find the occasional new and unused copy of P&P for $0.50-$2.00

Then I sell it on Amazon as new for about $25

It can be green, sometimes.

#12

Posted by: Codswallop | June 25, 2008 5:06 PM

Until recently I was a frequent participant in an atheist forum. In one the lighter sections was a "Challenge" thread in which I was once challenged to make a video of myself reading "Green Eggs and Ham" like a preacher. The result can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irwZqeaRdFI

#13

Posted by: The Other Dan from Milwaukee | June 25, 2008 5:30 PM

If you want "Green Eggs and Ham" read by a real preacher, check out Jesse Jackson on SNL (Eulogizing the good doctor).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPxPciXcJvc

#14

Posted by: James Crooks | June 25, 2008 6:23 PM

@#12,

Codswallop, that was hilarious. Great job!

#15

Posted by: brightmoon | June 25, 2008 7:55 PM

roflmao

hey wait those last 3 are scary

#16

Posted by: Alan Kellogg | June 26, 2008 12:53 AM

Couldn't read it. The pictures were too small and the text too blotchy.

Flash 9 works fine on FireFox 3 OTOH.

#17

Posted by: Alan Kellogg | June 26, 2008 1:03 AM

Update: The slide show didn't work. If you're going to put some pictures up on the web, self host. Gallery scripts are available most anywhere, and a number of web host offer self-installation scripts. Hell, I can get a gallery installed at my place and host a better slide show than Photo-Bucket does. I could do it using WordPress and the basic page template.

PhotoBucket, the Ken Ham of hosted image galleries.

#18

Posted by: Amadán | June 26, 2008 4:41 AM

#17 Alan, thanks for comments.

I have moved the slideshow to Picasa and linked through my blog.

Hope that works better.

#19

Posted by: themadlolscientist | June 26, 2008 3:30 PM

FUN-NEEEEEEEEEEE! But I thought the ending was kind of weak.

#20

Posted by: Amadán | June 26, 2008 7:09 PM

But I thought the ending was kind of weak

I wanted a bleak nihilistic conclusion that would leave the viewer with an uneasy understanding of the contradictions and compromises at the heart of bourgeois morality. But the studio said test screenings in Nebraska showed that Arnie blowing up the alien monster would up the demographic 30 points.