OK there's been a whole story here at Scienceblogs that has been developing over the past two years. It started when PZ, Richard Dawkins and other prominent anti-ID critics were interviewed under false pretenses for a movie, first entitled Crossroads: The Intersection of Science and Religion then renamed Expelled. And did I mention that the movie features Ben Stein, the former Nixon speech writer and cultural personality? PZ then tried to go see a pre-screening of the movie but was ironically expelled. Oh and did I mentioned that Richard Dawkins successfully attended the same pre-screening event? The whole event was big enough that it was covered in the NY Times.
Discussions were launched, Youtube videos were filmed. And then Nisbet and Mooney told everyone to SHUTUP as this provided free advertizement for the ID movement and this film, which ironically the ID movement has been quiet about because it directly links up ID to religion undercutting the IDiots' message.
And then this video appeared.
Note that it features not only Dawkins, Eugene Scott, Daniel Dennett, Christopher Hitchens but also Scienceblogs' own PZ Myers.
So to Mooney and Nisbet all I can say is that the biggest winners of this whole snafu are PZ and by extension Scienceblogs.
P.S. If you are a proponent of ID, please listen to the lyrics and don't make judgements (or victory speeches) before you UNDERSTAND what you are dealing with.
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I must've watched the clip 10 times today, and can't stop repeating "Dick to the Dawk to the PhD, he studied biology."
Damn this clip is addictive.
You forgot horseman number four, Sam Harris.
I would also like to add that I'm glad that Democritus kicked Aristotle's ass!
What are Harris and Hitchens doing in a video about evo vs. creo anyway? Where is Ken Miller? And Dawkins does not have a Ph.D. He has an MA, a D.Phil, and a D.Sc. This video was apparently done by someone without a flair for truth or accuracy; ergo it is probably a product of the ID side.
It's catchy though.
I think that it's a parody of the whole affair. He is critical of Dawkin's method but not to the extent of being pro-ID. If you listen to the lyrics it is seemingly pro-creationism (as in Dawkins being condescending), but is really pro-science. The fact that it starts with Zeus and a battle between Democritus (atomism) and Aristotle (prime-mover aka BS) makes it unlikely that some christian wrote this. Other refs:
- Paley is a wingnut.
- Darrow, the lawyer who deffended John Scopes against the charges of William Jenninings Bryant, is compared to Robert DeNero
- the machine as being slowly built on the shoulders of midjets. That's a clear reference to Newton and scientific knowedge. The machine weeds out what is right and what is wrong. (Hence scientis being booted out - science is a battle field, something that non-scientists just don't get.)
There are other indications that the author knows what he is talking about. He is not some clueless pro-IDist.
Lyrics (from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFXIALf9zDA)
My name is D to the I to C to the K, Yeah I'm the Dickie D,
I gots my PhD and comin' your way on the Youtube to bust your world view so just listen to me and don't you argue.
You see, this battle's been ragin' since Zeus was on the bottle,'tween Science like Democritus and Faith like Aristotle,
who said the mover was unmovin' like some magic trick but
that's no good logic, my posse is far too quick for this
religious sthick.
Cos science is the only way to know y'all, you stand with me y'all, or you can fall y'all
So go ahead and take your pick...
ES: Yeah you tell him Rick ...
Darwin : Cos if you don't know me ...
RD: YOU DON'T KNOW DICK!!
Chorus : Yeah he's the Dick to the Dawk to the PhD,
he's smarter than you he's got a science degree!
Yeah he's the Dick to the Dawk to the PhD,
he's smarter than you he's got a science degree!
SH: On the shoulders of midgets we built up this machine,
DD: YEAH!!!
RD: Science silenced that watchdog wingnut Paley
growing stronger and harder almost daily, storming Wilber by force as we framed the discourse that faith and science are split in schismatic divorce.
Then Darwin took to the seas to see what no one had seen, and ever since then we've been increasingly keen, they may never adore us, but they'll no longer ignore us,
give it to 'em PZ hit these BLEEP with the chorus!!!
Chorus : Yeah he's the Dick to the Dawk to the PhD,
he's smarter than you he's got a science degree!
The Dick to the Dawk to the PhD,
he's still smarter than you he studied biology!
Then there was Darrow dukin' it out with the straight and the narrow,
a ragin' bull in the ring, he did his thing, and took it on the chin like he was Bobby De Niro.
We might have lost at Scopes, beaten down by the dopes, and the stooges of popes, but in losin' we coped, becomin' more than we hoped, creationists slipped on the soap of their own slippery slope.
What was impossible, improbable, is now wholly unstoppable untoppleable, the Dick Doc'll roll up as you creationists foldup
you haters talkin' bull,
don't you know that this Dick is un-cock-frickin' blockable ...
Chorus : Yeah he's the Dick to the Dawk to the PhD,
he's smarter than you he's got a science degree!
The Dick to the Dawk to the PhD,
he's still smarter than you he studied biology!
Now the machine of our making, sees culture ripe for the taking,
Cos I'm the rappinest, rabidest atheist who unlike the Catholic, Muslim or even the Jew, believes that no God but science could ever be true, hell if I was dyslexic I'd even hate "dog" too.
Time to open your eyes, get yourself wise, the age of science will rise to be religion's demise,
and while you churchies all cry, shouting 'why God oh why,' I'll still be poppin' my collar earning more dollars than Allah.
Hollah!
Chorus : Yeah he's the Dick to the Dawk to the PhD,
he's smarter than you he's got a science degree!
The Dick to the Dawk to the PhD,
he's still smarter than you he studied biology!
Chorus : Yeah he's the Dick to the Dawk to the PhD,
he's smarter than you he's got a science degree!
The Dick to the Dawk to the PhD,
he's still smarter than you he studied biology!