Intelligent design’s long march to nowhere

Science & Theology News ^ | 05 December 2005 | Karl Giberson

[Senator Bedfellow]

Hot off the wire:

University of Kansas religious studies professor Paul Mirecki told the Lawrence Journal-World that two men who beat him were making references to the class that was to be offered for the first time this spring.

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/13336260.htm

[Rudder]

It is easy to study evolution apart from abiogenesis.

Cool, your words, my bedtime. Talk to you later.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Well, it looks like the mentality of the fundies is consistent . . .

Actually, what it looks like is that the position of all materialists and evolutionists is scientifically and morally bankrupt. Look, the guy lost a tooth. He was beaten severely. That proves beyond question evolutionists and materialists are plumb dumb and wrong. It also proves that you had best repent before the rest of us fundies don red baseball hats and wool gloves. Deal with it. Be sure to check the bushes outside before you go to sleep.

[AndrewC]

But what is to be expected by one suffering from the mental defect that is religious belief.

So why do you have the American flag on your home page? You belong in an atheistic society such as China. Certainly anyone who would call Washington and Lincoln mentally defective should not feel at home here.

that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

[Fester Chugabrew]

It smarts not in the least to be "shamed" by someone who knows neither the One to whom all are accountable nor any significant reason for pronouncing judgment upon others.

[Dimensio]

Despite all of the idiotic ranting and shameless lies I've seen from creationists through the years I have never seen such a shameful display of malice and hate, not to mention the most odious demonstration of abject stupidity in claiming that physical violence against someone who accepts evolution somehow proves evolution is false.

You are a very, very disturbing kind of stupid.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Again, not unexpected.

[Dimensio]

I expected shameful gloating over an act of violence. I never expected the disgusting bile that Fester vomited forth.

[Doctor Stochastic]

I've observed Creationists for the last half century. It's sad to say, not much has changed.

[AndrewC]

[Virginia-American]

...hospitalized Monday after an apparent roadside beating...

...Just a minor glitch in the heartless process of natural selection, etc. Just the "laws of nature"

What a class act you are, FC.

[Right Wing Professor]

I expected shameful gloating over an act of violence. I never expected the disgusting bile that Fester vomited forth.

I did. Over on the main thread more than one person has expressed chagrin the beating was not more severe. I hit abuse on the first of those. No result. Evidently management agrees that Mirecki was not damaged enough.

I have to say I'm withholding judgement on this incident until the police weigh in. We've seen too many cases like this that turned out to be fakes. But if it turns out to be legitimate, I will be blogging on the FReeper reaction, and it won't be pretty.

[Liberal Classic]

Actually, what it looks like is that the position of all materialists and evolutionists is scientifically and morally bankrupt. Look, the guy lost a tooth. He was beaten severely. That proves beyond question evolutionists and materialists are plumb dumb and wrong. It also proves that you had best repent before the rest of us fundies don red baseball hats and wool gloves. Deal with it. Be sure to check the bushes outside before you go to sleep.

You gotta be kidding me.

[Dimensio]

Over on the main thread more than one person has expressed chagrin the beating was not more severe.

There's a main thread? I couldn't find it with several search terms.

[Liberal Classic]

We've seen too many cases like this that turned out to be fakes.

It's possible. It's kind of a shame when people want pity so badly that they'll stage something like this. If this is the case, he should suffer the consequences of filing a false police report.

We've seen too many cases like this that turned out to be fakes.

I gotta see this. Where?

[Doctor Stochastic]

The "narnia" review thread is almost as bad. Perhaps the Moon has slipped phase tonight.

[Doctor Stochastic]

Just to comment before the fact: if it's a fake, the faker should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law; likewise if it's real, same to the perps.

[Coyoteman]

That proves beyond question evolutionists and materialists are plumb dumb and wrong. It also proves that you had best repent before the rest of us fundies don red baseball hats and wool gloves. Deal with it. Be sure to check the bushes outside before you go to sleep.

Inappropriate!