How Annimuls Got Started, by Chuck Darwin
This week marks the launch of the Big Valley Creation Science Museum, a facility which promises to provide definitive, “scientific” evidence to support that intellectual travesty summarized by the delightful oxymoron “creation science”.
“Creation science” affords endless delight to fans of human folly in all its glorious manifestations, and if its website is any indicator, this “scientific” “museum” should be funnier than a Marx Brothers Film Festival. Where else could you view ““Fossils and the Floodâ€, described “a fantastic visual arrangement that contains only genuine, museum quality fossils…AND a GIANT model of Noah’s ark!”
But the piece de resistance (sorry for the cheese-eating-surrender-monkey-speak, but you know us leftists) comes when the “museum”, this bastion of learning and erudition, this cornucopia of scholarship, this temple of science, refers to the most important scientific publication of the 19th century…and gets it wrong. Twice.
Guys…Darwin never wrote a book called “The Origin of the Species.” Were you, perhaps, referring to “On the Origin of Species”?
So much for science. How much credibility would you accord a self-proclaimed Christian theologian who kept referring to a book called the “Buy Bull”?
I really wish this were a joke. If it were, it would be one of the most brilliant, and expensive, pieces of satire ever produced. The website is kitch enough to be a farce, but unfortunately, I don’t think it is.
For some real satire, someone showed me this site recently: http://www.blackpeopleloveus.com/index.html
Oh, but it is a joke, it is just that the people who made this museam just realize that it a joke. Shit, if I ever get out there myself, I plan to stop in and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh. I think this could be the next standup comedy spot for Canada.
Dino the Dinosaur believes in Jesus ;-)
, he replied: “There are no such things. Humans are basically as you see them today. Those skeletons they’ve found, what’s the word? They could have been deformed, diseased or something. I’ve seen people like that running round the streets of New York.”
Classic.
I could only laugh when I heard about this museum. And to think, some group of rich folks actually invested millions of dollars into this little venture.
And I’d like to send a shout out to my homeboy jonZor - that webcrib you linked to was off tha chain for real yo! My sides were splitizzing from da hilarity of it all!
Excited that another major tourist destination has opened between Glacier & Banff, I opened their
‘media package’ link. Among the gems, we find
“Additionally you can make it a day’s adventure by booking a trip on Alberta’s Steam Train which includes lunch and a train robbery.” At $5 to see
a replica arc and rocks which can be no more than
6000 years old, I’ve been robbed once before I
board the train…..
Werd to the Throbbin!
you be diggin on that? Well, check this shit out, yo! Dogg, it is the SHIZZ!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=KKTDRqQtPO8
Posse up
I am very jiggy with all of that. If more people acted like Sally and Johnny and made the effort to go out and actually meet Negroes and make friends with them, the world would be a better place.
To paraphrase what I wrote before:
Those fools, and all those likewise others who funded and designed this ignorance-based, laughable excuse of a museum, should know a little secret: the Bible is not science.
Science is science.
One more proof that intellectual sloth, and the ignorance and fear it fosters, is truly insinuating itself into every aspect of our societies.
In the meantime - it’s official: Canada is being invaded by rampant religious fundamentalism. Maybe we need to say it louder, with more frequency and increasing insistence to those poor ignorance-driven, fearful souls out there: creationism is not science - it is quackery.
We should remind them that the current year is 2007 C.E. - not 1307 C.E.
You can get jiggy? Does Mrs B have pictures by perchance?
The Bible’s not science?
Oh, shit.
Gotta restart my PhD thesis now.
We can laugh this all up - and (oh so) rightly so. We can (and do!) dismiss such people and wackos and pathetic, as deluded ignoramuses - and again, rightly so.
The problem is that the MSM is giving more credence/air time/column space to those bozos than the actual rational/reasonning/reality-grounded folks - thus aiding and abetting the further dumbing down of our societies.
I admit: I am among the very first ones to laugh my ass off with incredulity and utter disbelief that such medieval people are still around these days. But once I am done with my (natural) reactionary fit of ROFLOL, I sober up and realize the actual threat they represent to our democratic societies.
Just gaze about the Canadian blogosphere (putting aside the bigger American one) and you will see them - they are everywhere …
Now, that is not funny - it is downright crazy.
Time for complacency about christnianist/dominionist fundamentalism is over, folks … unfortunately, but incredibly, enough.
I personally favour loud gales of mockery-driven laughter as a strategy, Mentarch, for a number of reasons.
a) It’s what comes naturally.
b) They hate it.
c) They’re impervious to logic.
Heh ;-)
I agree to some extent, Balbulican …
Laughing about such things is good for the soul and those people *do* deserve to be laughed at.
But here’s the pickle: will we be still laughing when so-called “social pressures” will be calling en masse for the teaching of creationism in our Canadian schools?
It has already begun, man, in more ways than one …
(”God Bless Canada“, anyone?)
“But here’s the pickle: will we be still laughing when so-called “social pressures†will be calling en masse for the teaching of creationism in our Canadian schools?”
Hopefully yes, we will. As well as lobbying, letter writing, and voting. But laughing as well, for sure.
Hear, hear!
(btw: you can get jiggy with it?!? I’ll echo stageleft and join him in asking for - ah - concrete and substantial visual proof …)
;-)
I just noticed something - this Chuck Darwin guy, is he a member of the Beastie Boys?
I bet HE has a bunch of black friends.
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Sorry, guys, that was a typo. I meant “jiggly”. Old guy saggy bits. You don’t want to know. Really.
I most humbly apologize - I meant Public Enemy, not the Beasties. I am SO embarrassed.
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I will never support cremationism. OK, maybe self-cremationism. So long’s as it don’t includes me.