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More Intelligent Design Jokes terminology: There is really silly stuff ... and serious stuff: why is the organ responsible for hearing would also house a mechanism for balance?... why are our jaws too small for our (wisdom) teeth? ... the human body has many kludges, failures, chronic problems and imperfections. Many creatures have design flaws, like the panda's thumb, the vestigial wings of flightless birds, whale hip bones, the parthenogenetic lizards (genus Cnemdophorus), many make-dos, weird adaptations, re-works, backups, whosits, letstrythatagains, ... misdesigns are proof of evolution actually, they survived because the animal survived despite the problem. ... How about human embryo tails? fetal teeth in whales that never erupt ... flounders with both eyes on one side of the head. Hollow bones in Penguins, horses still have bones inside hoof to support three toes. Human babies heads are nearly too big for birth, pain, alot of pain, ... its the anatomy, physics, and physiology of the beast, ... back pain comes from the fact that the spinal chord evolved to support horizontal creatures, and what about the knee joint... the neck is just not built well enough to support a large head ... shaken baby syndrome ... and the male urethra passes through the prostrate gland which can choke its flow ... not good. Because the testes drop a soft spot in the abdominal wall is formed increasing the risk of a hernia, ... and what about using the same orifice for procreation and elimination? ... women's monthy cycle is a real winner...right. |
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Slate continued This may seem
like an oblique way in which to approach Mel Gibson's ghastly movie The
Passion. But it came back to me this week that an associate of his had once
told me, in lacerating detail, that an evening with Mel was one long fiesta
of boring but graphic jokes about anal sex. I've since had that confirmed by
other sources. And, long before he emerged as the spear-carrier for the sort
of Catholicism once preached by Gen. Franco and the persecutors of Dreyfus,
Mel Gibson attained a brief notoriety for his loud and crude attacks on
gays. Now he's become the proud producer of a movie that relies for its
effect almost entirely on sadomasochistic male narcissism. The culture of
blackshirt and brownshirt pseudomasculinity, as has often been pointed out,
depended on some keen shared interests. Among them were massively repressed
homoerotic fantasies, a camp interest in military uniforms, an obsession
with flogging and a hatred of silky and effeminate Jews. Well, I mean to
say, have you seen Mel's movie?
I think that it's a healthy sign for our society that so many Jews have decided to be calm and unoffended by the film, and that so many Christians say they don't feel any worse about Jews after having seen it. We have a social consensus where Jews feel more secure and Christians less insecure. Good. But this does not alter the fact that The Passion is anti-Semitic in intention and its director anti-Semitic by nature. Some people including myself think that Abe Foxman and the Anti-Defamation League are too easily prone to charge the sin of anti-Semitism. But if someone denies the Holocaust one day and makes a film accusing Jews of Christ-killing the next day, I have to say that if he's not anti-Jewish then he's certainly getting there. |
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Intelligent Design Jokes .... Creation Museum Jokes .... and some not-so-funny 'stuff' |
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The Creation Museum .... Marketing Christianity with dinosaurs ... go to Creation Museum Jokes page....or is it the Theocracy Museum? Randy Travis, Bush, War supporter
Notes: Believers claim religion is natural human activity in response to reality of supernatural world and divine revelation. Academia see it as part of a cultural evolution, a human response to stimuli. the researchers view is at odds with the direct experience of the actors, a wide gap between the observers language and the observed. When the actors observes devotion, the researcher sees underlying motives, causes which are economic, political and maybe personal, things the actors may not be aware of as the true forces behind the behavior. The researcher compelled to go beyond the actors personal accounts. Unconscious motives. How do historians explain the Reformation or Crusades, but through undeclared human needs. more |
REALITY: Spiked
Online Creationism, Pluralism and the Compromising of Science, by
Joel Kaplinsky.
"On examination intelligent design's only novelty turns out to be not a grounding in science, but a promotional strategy. Its supposed scientific legitimacy rests on the work of biochemist Michael Behe and mathematician William Dembski. However, neither Behe nor Dembski (nor anyone else) have published on intelligent design in peer reviewed journals. This is unsurprising, since their work is nothing but rehashes of old creationist arguments." and IDEA rebuttal Flock of Dodos AP Sarkar Lab jokes |
Above: The pic is a joke?....but see Guardian & more on page 8 Is Global Warming and attacking Iran welcomed by Evangelical Christians as the End? or see ECI
Jesus didn't need a marketing machine. |
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LiveScience Top Ten Intelligent Design (Creation Myths) |
All social and historical research considers unconscious motives. The rise of Bhuddism (rather than Hinduism) in India 2500 years ago is explained through the course of better satisfaction of political and economic needs of the ruler class. Coincidence of interests between tenant farmers and clergy helped spread Catholicism, Ireland. There are similar underlying forces enabling a surge in fundamentalist Christianity in the U. S. But massive differences in communication technology have allowed insignificant trends to be over exaggerated and significant forces to be quelled, but the underlying basic needs are still being appealed to. |
Not-so-funny news..................and see TheocracyWatch | ||
Voters oust school board that backed intelligent design. More News | New York Times: Evolution Debate | Science & Theology News |
Intelligent Design: a political
challenge to evolution, a comedy or tragedy? Dembski: in court-he
says no creationism, religion, just science.....but see Southern
Baptist Convention press More
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not funny: Acton Institute: Three New Testament Roots of Economic Liberty by Howard Ahmanson, on Board of Directors, Discovery Institute More News Wedge Document: "Design theory promises to reverse the stifling dominance of the materialist worldview, and to replace it with a science consonant with Christian and theistic convictions." More News |
See Answers
in Genesis for more 'authoritative' information on:
aliens / ufo's, 'proof' of creation, apemen, arguments creationists should
not use, Nazism, Embryonic Recapitulation, Joshua's long day, vestigal
organs, Wooly mammoths, and GOD, (Him). Sorry, no info on
Hummers.
Theocracy Museum ...oh, sorry, we mean Creation Museum ...go to page 12 Creation Museum Jokes
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Creation Museum, Patrick Marsh, creator of Jaws and King Kong attractions at Universal Studios, recruited by Ken Ham. Seattle Times What would Jesus Think...? |
Truth is Stranger Than Fiction, These are Not Jokes | Pope Benedict "Intelligent Project"....Cheney: Office of Special Projects ? | |||
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"Pope Benedict waded indirectly into the evolution debate by saying the universe was made by an "intelligent project" and criticizing those who in the name of science say its creation was without direction or order." above source: Yahoo News and see Schonborn: Intelligent Design based on 'reason' not science. | |||
Bush:
"Here's how you spell Kansas: K-A-N-S-A-S" and
later he'll ask about women's rights classes.
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Creation Science Museums big three sorry Museum of Earth History ... you're not 'scientific' enough. MORE
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Voters oust school board that backed intelligent design.. USA Today top |
Pa. voters oust school board that backed intelligent
design
DOVER, Pa. (AP) — Voters came down hard Tuesday on school board members who ordered a statement on intelligent design read in biology class, ousting eight Republicans and replacing them with Democrats who want the concept stripped from the science curriculum. The election unfolded amid a landmark federal trial involving the Dover public schools and the question of whether intelligent design promotes the Bible's view of creation. Eight Dover families sued, saying it violates the constitutional separation of church and state. (Related story: Kansas can teach intelligent design) Dover's school board adopted a policy in October 2004 that requires ninth-graders to hear a prepared statement about intelligent design before learning about evolution in biology class. Eight of the nine school board members were up for election Tuesday. They were challenged by a slate of Democrats who argued that science class was not the appropriate forum for teaching intelligent design. (Related story: What would Darwin think?) "My kids believe in God. I believe in God. But I don't think it belongs in the science curriculum the way the school district is presenting it," said Jill Reiter, 41, a bank teller who joined a group of high school students waving signs supporting the challengers Tuesday. A spokesman for the winning slate of candidates has said they wouldn't act hastily and would consider the outcome of the court case. The judge expects to rule by January; the new school board members will be sworn in Dec. 5. School board member David Napierskie, who lost Tuesday, said the vote wasn't just about ideology. "Some people felt intelligent design shouldn't be taught and others were concerned about having tax money spent on the lawsuit," he said. Intelligent design holds that the universe is so complex that it must have been created by some kind of higher force. The statement read to students says Charles Darwin's theory is "not a fact" and has inexplicable "gaps." A similar controversy has erupted in Kansas, where the state Board of Education on Tuesday approved science standards for public schools that cast doubt on the theory of evolution. The 6-4 vote was a victory for intelligent design advocates who helped draft the standards. |
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claim its not a creationist organization
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Council for
National Policy: members are found in Christian organizations
encompassing James Dobson's Focus on the Family, Bill Bright's Campus
Crusade for Christ and it's many branches, Robert Weiner's Maranatha
shepherding group, Gideons, Youth for Christ, World Vision, Wycliffe Bible
Translators, Billy Graham Evangelical Assoc., Intercessors for America,
International Charismatic Bible Ministries, National Evangelical Assoc.,
National Religious Broadcasters Assoc., Promise Keepers and many more. The
potential spiritual impact of this organization, which claims educational
status, could be unparalleled.
In-depth biographies of CNP founders and past/present officers and many members reveal that many are directly affiliated with or part of such organizations as the Knights of Malta, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Unification Church of Sun Myung Moon, the Church of Scientology, Freemasonry, the CIA, Nazis, the Church Universal & Triumphant, the Ku Klux Klan, Templeton Foundation, Racists and other cults and organizations. This will perhaps explain the ease with which many are seduced into embracing false doctrine and the One World Religion. They don't belong to Jesus Christ. We're told specifically to not join with unbelievers Selected: Council for National Policy members: |
Ambassador S.L. Abbott , Larry Abraham, Jack Abramoff , M. Douglas Adkins, Howard Ahmanson, Jr., Dr. Frank Aker, Honorable Barbara Alby John Alderson, Gary Aldrich, Richard V. Allen, Daniel B. Allison II, Thomas R. Anderson, Senator John K. Andrews, Jr., Dr. John F.Ankerberg, Philip F. Anschutz, Hon. Richard K. Armey, Ben Armstrong, Thomas K. Armstrong, Sen. William L. Armstrong, Dr. Larry P. Arnn, John M. Ashbrook, Edward G. Atsinger III Christian Top 1000 |
Bush Remarks On 'Intelligent Design' Theory Fuel Debate, | |
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Washington
Post
By Peter Baker and Peter Slevin Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday,
August 3, 2005; Page A01
President Bush invigorated proponents of teaching alternatives to evolution in public schools with remarks saying that schoolchildren should be taught about "intelligent design," a view of creation that challenges established scientific thinking and promotes the idea that an unseen force is behind the development of humanity. Although he said that curriculum decisions should be made by school districts rather than the federal government, Bush told Texas newspaper reporters in a group interview at the White House on Monday that he believes that intelligent design should be taught alongside evolution as competing theories. President Bush said students "ought to be exposed to different ideas." (Gerald Herbert - AP) "Both sides ought to be properly taught . . . so people can understand what the debate is about," he said, according to an official transcript of the session. Bush added: "Part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought. . . . You're asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed to different ideas, and the answer is yes." These comments drew sharp criticism yesterday from opponents of the theory, who said there is no scientific evidence to support it and no educational basis for teaching it. Much of the scientific establishment says that intelligent design is not a tested scientific theory but a cleverly marketed effort to introduce religious -- especially Christian -- thinking to students. Opponents say that church groups and other interest groups are pursuing political channels instead of first building support through traditional scientific review. The White House said yesterday that Bush's comments were in keeping with positions dating to his Texas governorship, but aides say they could not recall him addressing the issue before as president. His remarks heartened conservatives who have been asking school boards and legislatures to teach students that there are gaps in evolutionary theory and explain that life's complexity is evidence of a guiding hand. "With the president endorsing it, at the very least it makes Americans who have that position more respectable, for lack of a better phrase," said Gary L. Bauer, a Christian conservative leader who ran for president against Bush in the 2000 Republican primaries. "It's not some backwater view. It's a view held by the majority of Americans." John G. West, an executive with the Discovery Institute, a Seattle-based think tank supporting intelligent design, issued a written statement welcoming Bush's remarks. "President Bush is to be commended for defending free speech on evolution, and supporting the right of students to hear about different scientific views about evolution," he said. Opponents of intelligent design, which a Kansas professor once called "creationism in a cheap tuxedo," say there is no legitimate debate. They see the case increasingly as a political battle that threatens to weaken science teaching in a nation whose students already are lagging. "It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party," said Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), a leading liberal lawmaker. Noting Bush's Ivy League education, Frank said, "People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education." Bush's comments were "irresponsible," said Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State. He said the president, by suggesting that students hear two viewpoints, "doesn't understand that one is a religious viewpoint and one is a scientific viewpoint." Lynn said Bush showed a "low level of understanding of science," adding that he worries that Bush's comments could be followed by a directive to the Justice Department to support legal efforts to change curricula. Bush gave no sign that he intended to wade that far into the debate. The issue came up only when a reporter from the Knight Ridder news service asked him about it; participants said the president did not seem especially eager to be asked. "Very interesting question," he told the reporter playfully. At a morning briefing yesterday, White House press secretary Scott McClellan said Bush was simply restating long-standing views. "He has said that going back to his days as governor," McClellan said. "I think he also said in those remarks that local school districts should make the decisions about their curriculum. But it's long been his belief that students ought to be exposed to different ideas, and so that's what he was reiterating yesterday." In comments published last year in Science magazine, Bush said that the federal government should not tell states or school boards what to teach but that "scientific critiques of any theory should be a normal part of the science curriculum." The president's latest remarks came less than two months after Cardinal Christopher Schonborn, archbishop of Vienna and an influential Roman Catholic theologian, said evolution as "an unguided, unplanned process of random variation and natural selection" is not true. "Any system of thought that denies or seeks to explain away the overwhelming evidence for design in biology is ideology, not science," Schonborn wrote in the New York Times. He said he wanted to correct the idea that neo-Darwinism is compatible with Christian faith. Bruce Alberts, president of the National Academy of Sciences, warned this year in a "Dear Colleagues" letter of "increasingly strident attempts to limit the teaching of evolution." The most prominent debate is underway in Kansas, where the conservative state board of education is expected to require the teaching of doubts about evolution to public high school students. A challenge to the teaching of intelligent design is scheduled for trial in Dover, Pa., while a federal court in Georgia said textbook stickers questioning evolution were unconstitutional. Slevin reported from Chicago. Falwell apologizes to gays, feminists, lesbians.....CNN & Bob Jones University Press and Beka books unacceptable to UC. search web: Gerry Falwell "Discovery Institute" Perkel Moonie front orgs Wikipedia, Common Dreams, News World acquired UPI in 2000 from a group of Saudi investors. News World was founded by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Unification Church UPI Clinton Chronicles, by Jerry Falwell, see Rotten.com Hudson Institute, Neocons, Iraq War Who bailed out Liberty University? Sun Myung Moon |
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Discovery Institute says ID does not specifically identify a 'God', but although you will find that the top management layer is composed mainly of secular businessmen, the next level is composed of a dominant amount of influential Evangelical Christian Leaders. No other religion has any significant representation. | |
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