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RE: virus: Flying Spaghetti Monster
« on: 2005-08-19 13:17:50 » |
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[Blunderov] A glorious large scale portrait of the divine being is available
for adoring gazes at
http://www.venganza.org/touched.htm
Best Regards
Flying Spaghetti Monster
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RE: virus: Flying Spaghetti Monster
« Reply #1 on: 2005-08-19 22:21:22 » |
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and here > http://www.boingboing.net/2005/08/19/boing_boings_250000_.html is the 250,000 usd Intelligence Design Challenge.
Boing Boing's $250,000 Intelligent Design challenge (UPDATED: $750K)
Yesterday, I posted an item to Boing Boing about the growing popularity of Pastafarianism, a new religion that worships Flying Spaghetti Monster, initially created to protest the Kansas State School Board's decision to teach "Intelligent Design" in schools. A suprising number of I.D. supporters wrote in with comments like this from reader Anne Kenny:
Okay Xeni
I read your Blog about Intellegent Design and the spaghetti monster. Ridiculous. I'd like to know what you think should be taught in the schools.
Certainally not evolution considering there is not one single fact that proves it. No missing links, not even common sense. Lies are still being printed that were proven wrong in the late 1800's but they're still taught as fact.
If you're so positive that you came from a monkey or a rock or whatever you think it is I suggest you debate Dr. Kent Hovind.
Dr. Hovind is willing to pay any individual a quarter of a million dollars to anyone who can give any empirical evidence for evolution. He has had this offer up for a long time but even this country's top scientists have gone up against him and lost the debates.
I suggest you offer this to your avid readers... I'm sure one of them would like some extra cash. You can call 850-479-3466 (8-5 Mon-Fri CST) for more info about the $250,000. Please blog this I'm interested in what you think about evolution and all of its lies.
I've discussed the matter with my blog colleagues, and we would like to hereby issue a challenge to Kent Hovind and his supporters.
We are willing to pay any individual *$250,000 if they can produce empirical evidence which proves that Jesus is not the son of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Get the rest at the previously mentioned link!
Of course, the prize money will be in Intelligently Designed currency.
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RE: virus: Flying Spaghetti Monster
« Reply #2 on: 2005-08-20 13:42:11 » |
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[Blunderov] What the world needs now is an FSM children's' book. (I'm hoping
it's not possible to copyright a deity.)
Here is a rival claim. Very credible IMV, and in the interests of fairness
this 'argument from stupidity' should be widely taught.
Best Regards.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/mcsnee/433748.html
11:21 am - A New Theory
Yesterday, President Bush endorsed the idea of teaching intelligent design
'theory' alongside evolution and natural selection in schools.
I'd like to propose a third alternative theory. I call it the theory of
"Design by Unintelligent Hand," or "DUH" for short. The basic concept? The
Creator is an utter dumbass.
Consider the evidence:
The dark. One of the big ideas behind Intelligent Design is that there's no
way an eye could evolve. My contention? There's no way a Creator who wasn't
a goddamn imbecile would create eyes that don't work half the time.
Toes. They're just dangling there, off the end of your feet, with a bunch of
fragile little bones. Combine these with #1 above, and you've got a recipe
for disaster. You think Jonathan Ive would have created something as stupid
as toes?
Nonspecific urethritis. I can understand a Creator trying to enforce
draconian anti-sex measures by punishing people who break them with oozing
pustules and fiery pain when they urinate, because, hey, that's what
Creators do. But random urinary tract infections? Just, y'know, out of the
blue, not being able to take a piss without screaming? That's just stupid.
Gravity's acceleration. Stuff breaks when it falls at 32 ft/sec^2. A little
gravity's good--you don't want your coffee to go flying off the desk, after
all--but why's it got to be so heavy? And don't get me started on what
happens when you drop a bowling ball on #2 up there. You think the Creator
hasn't done that a time or two and thought to himself, "Good gravy, I'm a
fool"?
Tiger cubs. They are almost unbearably cute--so cute that if you saw one,
you'd want to take it home. But then it grows up and EATS YOU. Good
thinkin', there, C!
Genetics and natural selection. Anybody who's ever smushed a generation of
drosophila melanogaster except the ones born with red eyes and has then seen
the next generation born with red eyes understands the principles behind
heritable traits and the idea that selecting for those traits makes it more
likely the next generation will have them. So we have a Creator who goes to
the trouble of making this simple, effective system, and then ignores it
completely to create a billion or so species out of thin air. The sharpest
tool in the shed? I THINK NOT.
Obviously, this is a theory whose time has come. Please join me in demanding
that DUH be taught alongside evolution and intelligent design in our
nation's classrooms. It's easy to support: just copy and paste this html
into your journal!
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