Have you ever really looked at intelligent design?

York Daily Record (PA( ^ | 9/29/05 | Mike Argento

[Right Wing Professor]

Some very good writers write for small town papers. Mike Argento is just wickedly funny, and he hits this one way out of the park.

[Right Wing Professor]

Ping for a great column about the Dover Panda trial.

[GSlob]

Actually, most life forms are breathtakingly simple:
mix 2 parts booze, one part of hot air, one part of old money, one cup of ambition, a cup of connections, and a cup of leftism - and you get a kennedy. You do not even need to shake and bake. And the design of this recipe is surely not particularly intelligent, either.

[Carolina_Thor]

yeah it was pretty funny, but being from a C-USA school.... F*** him!!

[PatrickHenry]

I'm trying to avoid mass confusion, by keeping it down to only one one thread per day for the trial, and now you've gone and posted a good one. If you had done this a couple of hours earlier, this would have been the one. Grumble, grumble ...

I donno. Want me to ping the list?

[MineralMan]

Yo! Homey! They gots pandas in Dover? Fer shizzle?

I gotta get over there. Those pandas be the bomb!

[Aracelis]

And that's when Pennock unloaded this: "For all we know, the world may have been created five minutes ago and we've all been implanted with memory chips."

Whoa.

Dude.

And thus did intelligent design somehow join the wow-have-you-ever-looked-at-your-hand-I-mean-really-looked school of stoner intellectual epistemology.

I remember some nights like this...in particular the utter profundity of the TV jingle "Sometimes you feel like a nut - sometimes you don't" for Almond Joy vs. what-was-the-other-one, Dude? Whoa! I was too stoned to catch the name, Bro.

BTW, have you ever really looked at your hand, man? While your at it, check out this ID stuff too. Knarly! We could have been just created only nanoseconds ago, with memories and everything.

< /humor> Better take my meds. :)

[MineralMan]

Seriously....it sounds like the school board has some knuckle-draggers as attorneys in this case. More proof of evolution, I suppose.

[SittinYonder]

"For all we know, the world may have been created five minutes ago and we've all been implanted with memory chips."

I've heard this theory before. Very compelling under the right circumstances.

[Right Wing Professor]

Want me to ping the list?

Well, maybe I'll just put a link to this thread on the other one. It's in the editorial sidebar, anyway.

[PatrickHenry]

Nice tagline!

[fortheDeclaration]

Did I mention that Pennock is a brainiac? Anyway, back to Gillen's question about whether somebody looking at the computer program could believe that it was created by a programmer. Pennock explained how the program worked, and that during the process as the code evolves, and at the end of the process, you can't really tell who or what created it because it essentially created itself.

And the computer the program is found in must have evolved also!

A program that evolves

LOL!

[PatrickHenry]

Well, maybe I'll just put a link to this thread on the other one. It's in the editorial sidebar, anyway.

I'd appreciate it. I like the article, but if there are too many threads going on all at once on the same topic it gets confusing.

[gusopol3]

sounds like Pennock offers the usual hand waving arguments that biologists have been trying to get by with for 50 years. The best thing to do is to teach nothing about origins of life because nobody knows, and it doesn't give fellas like you any pretence for arrogating an extra 50 I.Q. points to yourself over anybody that disagrees with you.

[Aracelis]

I thought you'd be pleased.

[Right Wing Professor]

Seriously....it sounds like the school board has some knuckle-draggers as attorneys in this case.

It isn't the first slap-down, either. I don't think Thomas Monaghan got nearly enough for his million dollars.

[theFIRMbss]

>if there are too many threads going on all at once on the same topic it gets confusing

You've got that backward!
With lots of same-topic threads,
they'll support themselves,

and order will form
spontaneously among
all the ideas . . .

[Right Wing Professor]

it doesn't give fellas like you any pretence for arrogating an extra 50 I.Q. points to yourself over anybody that disagrees with you.

An extra 50? C'mon, guy, no one's going to believe we're a 100 points smarter!

:=)

[RightWingAtheist]

wow-have-you-ever-looked-at-your-hand-I-mean-really-looked

[RightWingAtheist]

What attorneys aren't?-)