This excerpt reveals a surprising fact: it is clearly a Canadian conspiracy. I knew we shouldn't trust those guys.
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Ann Coulter
Fact: Women are dumb.
Didja hear that, Time? Newsweek?
I want the cover!
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Well that's just the way things fly up here PZ.
Damn, Canadians talk slow.
Is a rousing chorus of "Blame Canada" in the works?
all those flapping heads and beady eyes.
*shudder*
:P
Canada hail the FSM!!!
yarrrghhhh!!!!!
Wait this is a parody of Expelled, right? Or is Poe's Law in full force?
Tabernac! How did those damn Yankees found out aboot it, eh?
Parody of the Tom Cruise video by Pastafarians:
http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=41k-IJxPENc
:D
Thats at my school, wicked!
The video was made by the UofA Atheists and agnostics for those interested: www.ualberta.ca/~atheists/
I liked the "Anyone? Anyone?" at the end. Nice touch.
I saw my old QM prof in the screen cap and my heart skipped a beat...
Pretty good job with the video guys...
Clearly Canadian, eh?
Seriously, my university is the best!
I think I TA'd in the classroom that the camera pans across as he says, "Anyone? Anyone?"
Okay, that classroom kinda sucked. The desks were uncomfortable.
This is an incredible piece of craziness. These guys are hysterical. I found out about Pastafarianism through the letter that they wrote to the Kansas school board over the ID in schools debate, and these guys are awesome.
They never learned their alphabet from A to Zed.
They didn't show your interview, PZ! Maybe they realized that your testimony would be so convincing, no one would ever believe in the FSM again.
I wonder if Mike Caldwell would like to collaborate with me on the question of what the FSM's role was in the origin of snakes. There have definitely been numerous parallel instances of increased noodliness among squamate reptiles, which can hardly be a coincidence. This is an important area for testing the FSM design theory.
>They never learned their alphabet from A...
It is pronounced "Eh?"
There's a bit more regarding the Roger Moore invite/disinvite/accusation story, plus some transparent lies ("not polished enough") for why critics are carefully kept from seeing their dishonest production. NYT:
Moore's take:
Glen D
http://tinyurl.com/2kxyc7
I just viewed the real "Expelled" trailer for the first time. How disgusting! But, in response to Stein's questions at the end, I suggest that biology departments at all universities organize showings of "Expelled" for their faculty, and then keep track of all the faculty who attended the showings to determine how many were were subsequently fired for viewing the film.
LIES, LIES, LIES!
Using made up data, like other Fairy believers & neo-cons, doesn't help your case.
Piracy has increased worldwide in the past decade while global mean temperatures have continued to increase. This data debunks your so-called FSM theory.
Now, if Pastafarianism is a real religion then true believers will deny the data in favor of their Faith. Wait, that's already the case! They know that the data doesn't support their theory. Yet they continue to believe. Just like the Sub-Geniuses who continue to make excuses for the failure of their religion to correctly predict the end of the world.
The good thing about both of these religions is that they make predictions about reality that can be tested, like the Monotheists' predictions that the world has corners, whales are fish and that the relationship between the circumference & diameter of a circle is 3/1.
The bad thing about all these religions is their unwillingness to admit their errors & disappear.
Bob, the flying spaghetti monster & god have all been proven to be wrong by their own predictions.
uh oh, now we have the flying spaghetti monster to deal with in addition to ID. XD
According to a Discovery Institute senior fellow, the persecution being suffered by the cdesign proponentists has got so bad that they're having to dress up in disguise to protect themselves. No, really:
One can only speculate about the details of Dr Secret's disguise. Some spectacles, perhaps? Or a cheap tuxedo?
I laughed at the narrator's reference to an "amateur, unregistered physicist." That's about the level of credibility of ID's supporters. (What's an unregistered physicist? Is there a physicist registry?)
That was great! We Canadians are one clever bunch ;) I also really appreciated the 'amateur physicist' statement. Perfect.
Damn, eh? Word got out and about about our plan! Quick, grab a Timmy's and your sticks and go lay them out in the corners, eh!
Has anyone ever been physically attacked for being a cdesign proponentsist? I do not recall any, while evolutionists have rarely been attacked physically (often verbally).
On the other side of the coin, we have often seen IDists/creationists hide or disguise their beliefs and intentions, for the obvious fact that they hang onto a disreputable belief. Indeed they hide, for their claims cannot withstand scrutiny.
The most senseless claim of all is that there are many IDists who are afraid to reveal their IDist leanings due to "persecution." One might argue so prior to their getting tenure (the counterargument is that junk science should not be respected--I'm just giving the devil his "argument" outside of the parentheses), but if they're good enough to get tenure, they have no reason to fear, unless they think that ID really does not have the goods to stand up to scrutiny.
And sure, if they're spouting a bunch of mindless nonsense, they will not be pleased with the reception they receive. That's true of countless physics cranks as well, for archeologists who believe in Atlantis, and for psychologists who accept alien abductions largely at face value (and yet we have one who publicly espouses this junk--and although I don't believe in aliens flying around in saucers, I do think aliens (more likely, alien machines) in UFOs are far closer to being a live (if small) possibility than are the abductions, which, though common, somehow always escape being recorded by anybody).
It all goes back to the fact that ID isn't science, and even the believers (at least those in academia) know it under their conscious selves, and probably sometimes within their conscious selves. Sure they hide, since they must hide from the scrutiny of their threadbare web.
Glen D
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He's not a true Pastafarian. He said "His Noodleness"! And not once did RAmen cross his lips!
just remember:
Canada is to the USA as Macedonia is to Greece.
Yes take heart Americans! Your greatest days are yet to be.
Quaecumque Vera, indeed, and now I feel a need to cook noodles for dinner. Yarrrr!
Another proud UofEh science alumnus delurking here. I wonder what my old Mechanisms of Evolution prof, since retired, would have said about the FSM? He had a (very)dry and subtle wit and his statement on the first day of class regarding those who could not put scientific thinking ahead of religious doctrine was... pithy (cannot remember the wording but it was a colourful version of "leave now, there is a waiting list for this course"). OTOH I saw him once with my own eyes eating a plate of CAB fettucini!
Thank you to the makers of the video (who have to know about this site, right? Doesn't everyone?) for an entertaining and nostalgic seven minutes and for doing their part to dispell the "Albertan = Xian rw nutjob" stereotype.
I am impressed (and honoured) at the number of UofA alumni who read Pharyngula. I plan to keep up the good work here.
He's not a true Pastafarian. He said "His Noodleness"! And not once did RAmen cross his lips!
Do Canadians generally have trouble keeping noodles in their mouths?
I admit, my brief time in Vancouver was spent in a sushi joint and some basic restaurant for my aunts' wedding reception, so I didn't get to experience Canadian noodle slurping and dribbling. But, that sounds kind of sad.
Aw MAJeff, you collapsed it into its particulate form. It was supposed to remain a duality.
I had to update the video at request. The edited video is available here: http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=vaULFAZMK1o
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