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Category: Creationism • Humor
Posted on: July 13, 2009 1:34 PM, by PZ Myers
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Posted by: Bride of Shrek OM | July 13, 2009 1:42 PM
If that's supposed to be you PZ they haven't drawn the horns in too clearly...also you've become rather follicularly challenged all of a sudden.
Posted by: Cappy | July 13, 2009 1:43 PM
Oh, if only...
Posted by: SciencePundit
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July 13, 2009 1:45 PM
They might actually learn something. :-)
Posted by: Lynna | July 13, 2009 1:46 PM
Yes, this is perfect. Bring real education into the churches. Good plan. It's far better than showing Expelled to every Baptist congregation.
Posted by: Sven DiMilo | July 13, 2009 1:49 PM
I think it's Larry Moran.
Posted by: Beige | July 13, 2009 1:50 PM
I just choked a little. I declare myself to be greatly amused by the comic.
Posted by: A Recovering Catholic | July 13, 2009 1:52 PM
One can only dream...
Posted by: Jadehawk, OM
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July 13, 2009 1:54 PM
well, either they'll learn something, or they'll run away screaming and never come back to church. it' a win-win.
Posted by: Glen Davidson
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July 13, 2009 1:54 PM
What? I thought that this was happening in most churches every Sunday, and that only evolutionists were unwilling to question their basic beliefs.
You mean to tell me that the evidence in favor of evolution isn't allowed into many churches? Will we have to make an Expelled-type movie to expose this fact?
Glen D
http://tinyurl.com/mxaa3p
Posted by: CRS | July 13, 2009 1:56 PM
I would share this with my friends, but they know me to be very picky about spelling and grammar. Perhaps we could convince the artist to draw it again with the r in universe?
Posted by: tatiana | July 13, 2009 1:58 PM
You're all forgetting the most overlooked bit of error here. The biologist MUST have his hat! The one with the tentacles! If the clergy get their costuming then it helps if our side gets a little pomp too.
Posted by: Tim Eisele | July 13, 2009 2:04 PM
#8: "well, either they'll learn something, or they'll run away screaming and never come back to church."
Actually, from my personal experience sitting through church services as a child, most people would sleep through the physics/chemistry/biology/[insert scientific field] lecture, the same way they sleep through the sermons now.
To this day, I can't recall anything that was actually said in any sermons I ever heard. And the vast majority of the people I could see were either dozing off, or obviously thinking about something else.
Posted by: Dinosaur Teacher | July 13, 2009 2:05 PM
Yeah, everyone forgets the cockatrices and whatnot. You know, someone could do an Chick-tract-style comic showing the Bible as a cracked up Gygaxian Dungeons & Dragons campaign.
The jerk DM certain instakills a whole mess of israerlites, Tomb of Horrors-style.
Posted by: james | July 13, 2009 2:12 PM
all that work put into that illustration and misspell a word on it.... what a shame.
Posted by: MaleficVTwin
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July 13, 2009 2:17 PM
The weeping and gnashing of teeth would be audible in Maine.
Posted by: Jewbacca | July 13, 2009 2:17 PM
I think it's Larry Moran.
Looks like he shaved.
Posted by: Jim | July 13, 2009 2:19 PM
#13 - Lot's wife failed a saving throw. Rocks fall, everyone dies.
Posted by: Siamang | July 13, 2009 2:22 PM
Lol. Proofreading fail.
Univese!
Posted by: Apologus | July 13, 2009 2:46 PM
What happened to logic? Gee Wiz!
Posted by: Jennifurret | July 13, 2009 3:15 PM
The lac operon makes infinitely more sense to me than any religious mumbo jumbo. I guess it helps that I've learned it in about 6 of my undergraduate biology classes. Woo.
Posted by: Marc Abian | July 13, 2009 3:26 PM
Did you learn that cAMP has a critical role in the regulation of the lac operon, Mr. Expert?
Posted by: Andreas Johansson | July 13, 2009 3:50 PM
I do recall a far lot that was said in sermons; you're not missing much.Posted by: Fake Al Gore
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July 13, 2009 3:53 PM
I made the simple mistake of reading this while on a conference call with my entire department. I couldn't hit the mute button in time to cover my snort.
Posted by: Holbach
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July 13, 2009 4:01 PM
"Tell you what: this is all insane bullshit to deaden the minds of our esteemed citizens to keep their pathetic lives in step with the dictates of derangement."
Posted by: Mobius | July 13, 2009 4:06 PM
But of course that isn't what the creationist mean when they say that both sides should be presented.
Posted by: Jason Thibeault | July 13, 2009 4:09 PM
Hey, if we peer reviewed the Bible, could we maybe get a mention in the final draft?
"In the beginning, something may or may not have happened, with or without the help of an intervening deity. Our data thus far is inconclusive, but no evidence has appeared indicating a deity exists. Still, a lot of people seem to believe in one for some reason. Here are some stories about some of these believers."
Posted by: blf | July 13, 2009 4:17 PM
No, this is the USA. They'd just pull out their guns, blast away, and the survivors would claim they killed a demon or commie or atheist or rat or somesuch. Wouldn't even go to trial, especially if any of the shooters was a cop.
Faux News would hail them as heros. Their representatives in Congress, perhaps especially if the Thug Party, would try to award them the Freedom Medal. The soon-to-be-ex-Governor of Alaska would claim its the first step of her new style politics. Anyone foolish enought to protest would be Tasered. Any deaths would be a priori accidental, despite having to be Tasered teentytwo times.
Posted by: The Archduchess | July 13, 2009 4:53 PM
#26: I approve! But what of the literature cited section? You can't have a proper paper without some valid background!
Posted by: Dinosaur Teacher | July 13, 2009 5:07 PM
Well, Archduchess, should we run some double blind tests then? The data would rock!
Posted by: Jewbacca | July 13, 2009 5:20 PM
To this day, I can't recall anything that was actually said in any sermons I ever heard.
Hell, I can't even remember anything I said in the sermon I gave at my Bar Mitzvah.
Posted by: ProudCynic | July 13, 2009 5:32 PM
Just imagine a peer-reviewed, scientifically accurate version of the bible (or even just Genesis)...
"And the lord thy god said, 'Let there be light,' and from a single point time and space expanded in an instant, and hydrogen and helium fused together, and the stars were born..."
And so on.
Posted by: DynamicUno | July 13, 2009 5:48 PM
I am aware that this isn't particularly related to the topic at hand, but I can use my email at work to send this in, and I thought you lot might like to know. There's an interesting (and by interesting I mean "bad") article in today's HuffPo about the "New Atheists." The premise is that New Atheists are generally right-wingers when it comes to foreign policy... except the author never really goes into any kind of proof for that statement, but instead just sort of launches into an argument that maybe the New Atheists are wrong about religion being evil. Which isn't what the article told us it would be about at all.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-wright/why-the-new-atheists-are_b_230448.html
It's worth noting that the guy is also selling a book which he pitches mid-article, called "The Evolution of God," so you can see where this is going.
Posted by: speedwell | July 13, 2009 6:04 PM
Oooh, if Perry actually did this, I'd go back to church. Maybe even sing in the choir. :)
Posted by: Piper | July 13, 2009 6:05 PM
Interesting chart.
Photo: Evolution Less Accepted in U.S. Than Other Western Countries, Study Finds
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/bigphotos/21329204.html
Posted by: DynamicUno | July 13, 2009 6:11 PM
I am aware that this isn't particularly related to the topic at hand, but I can use my email at work to send this in, and I thought you lot might like to know. There's an interesting (and by interesting I mean "bad") article in today's HuffPo about the "New Atheists." The premise is that New Atheists are generally right-wingers when it comes to foreign policy... except the author never really goes into any kind of proof for that statement, but instead just sort of launches into an argument that maybe the New Atheists are wrong about religion being evil. Which isn't what the article told us it would be about at all.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-wright/why-the-new-atheists-are_b_230448.html
It's worth noting that the guy is also selling a book which he pitches mid-article, called "The Evolution of God," so you can see where this is going.
Posted by: Pierce R. Butler | July 13, 2009 9:27 PM
ProudCynic @ # 31: Just imagine a peer-reviewed, scientifically accurate version of the bible (or even just Genesis)...
Our esteemed host pointed his jumping legions to a noble first start at that in ancient days (June of '08).
Posted by: Rorschach | July 14, 2009 3:41 AM
Quite a few funny comics on that site !
Here's another one:
http://farleftside.com/2009/6-15-09.html
Posted by: Marc Abian | July 14, 2009 7:05 AM
I think what I wrote above just looks odd now as i didn't intend for the conversation to end there. I really saw it playing out something like
Did you learn that cAMP has a critical role in the regulation of the lac operon, Mr. Expert?
That's all well and good, except for one little detail...it doesn't!
Indeed
Are wrong
Been a lie
Close. I'm a microbiologist. It's like a genius, but with one difference.
We don't play by the rules.
(Sex scene censored)
Thanks baby, you were great, but now I'm off, to save the universe
Yeah, great. Whatever.
Posted by: lefty | July 15, 2009 12:01 PM
Mea culpa on the misspelling of "universe". I'm blaming it on the cats.
In my defense, Google reports 178,000 incidents of "univese", including the 1008 Miss Univese competition on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTTC7OLPf18
Posted by: lefty | July 15, 2009 12:03 PM
Mea culpa on the misspelling of "universe". I'm blaming it on the cats.
In my defense, Google reports 178,000 incidents of "univese", including the 1008 Miss Univese competition on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTTC7OLPf18