A Squamatan Sonnet from Lacertilian Bards

May 11th, 2008 RWA

Courtesy LGF:

Who Knows?

’Twas once upon the internet I chanced upon an argument;
A blog appeared to splinter into internecine wars.
’Twas all precipitated by a movie dedicated to
Portraying Darwinism as a truth-suppressing force.

A thousand comments did I read, another thousand did I feed
Into my aching brain, yet little progress did I find.
No sooner was a claim defeated, than it was again repeated;
Surely there’s a better way to influence a mind.

Oh Lord, I grew so weary of the cry: “It’s just a theory!” for
This charge is not dismissive in the scientific world.
And though this point was oft explained, it did not hinder those who claimed
That “Theory!” is rhetorical invective to be hurled.

My neurons whirled, my senses swirled; how did man come into this world?
I longed to take a nap, but someone said: “I’ve found a gap!”
And though the gap was quickly filled, there promptly came a voice more thrilled:
“Behold!” it cried, “I now have spied a flanking pair of gaps!”

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Harun Yahya given 3-year jail sentence

May 11th, 2008 midwifetoad

From Reuters, Via ERV, We receive news that the Turkish creationist writer has been convicted of “creating an illegal organization for personal gain.”

Oktar [aka Harun Yahya] had been tried with 17 other defendants in an Istanbul court. The verdict and sentence came after a previous trial that began in 2000 after Oktar, along with 50 members of his foundation, was arrested in 1999.

In that court case, Oktar had been charged with using threats for personal benefit and creating an organization with the intent to commit a crime. The charges were dropped but another court picked them up resulting in the latest case.
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Oktar, born in 1956, is the driving force behind a richly funded movement based in Turkey that champions creationism, the belief that God literally created the world in six days as told in the Bible and the Koran.

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Dave Scot On a Roll

May 6th, 2008 midwifetoad

This is becoming a problem. Dave Scot, a Friend of Bill Dembski, continues to post rational arguments. We fear that his mental health has become permanently balanced, and we continue to fear for his survival at Uncommon Descent. (Click link for discussion, if you dare.)

There are people who believe that because Darwin provided a theoretical basis that humans and animals have a common ancestor it becomes a rationale for treating humans more like animals. Thus we get things like Nazi Germany and the holocaust.

I suppose that’s one way of looking at it.

Another equally valid way of looking at it is that common ancestry becomes a rationale for treating animals more like humans. Thus we get things like People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

It’s all a matter of how you choose to look at it. It’s really more a reflection on your own soul which way you choose to see it.

Good people do good things. Evil people do evil things. Knowledge (like Darwinian evolution and the recipe for dynamite) is inanimate and can be employed by good people for good things and evil people for evil things.

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The Steintanic sinks….

May 5th, 2008 RWA

Expelled plunges another 50% in its third week and goes down to 656 theaters, raking in a total of just under seven million in three weeks.

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DI: Those Wascawwy Wepubwicans killed FL’s antievolution law

May 5th, 2008 EmmaPeel

John West of the Discovery Institute is fuming at those wascawwy Wepubwicans in the Florida legislature for introducing a fatal poison pill into the DI’s model “Academic Freedom” bill.

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Expelled Enjoined

May 3rd, 2008 midwifetoad

Flunked, Not Expelled: Expelled Enjoined

There was a hearing in the Yoko Ono copyright infringement case this past week, and Premise Media has been enjoined against further distribution of “Expelled” until the case is settled next hearing on May 19th.

That means that theaters that already have a copy may continue to show it, but no further prints may be sent out to other theaters, and no CD or DVD versions may be distributed, either.

More…

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Evolution bills die in Legislature as session ends

May 2nd, 2008 midwifetoad

By BILL KACZOR

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Hotly debated evolution bills that critics said would inject religious doctrine into public schools in the guise of science died a quiet death Friday on the final day of the legislative session.
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A House bill (HB 1483) would have gone farther, not just allowing such challenges but requiring that schools teach “critical analysis” of evolution.

The Senate version was based on model legislation advocated by the Discovery Institute, a Seattle think tank that supports research on intelligent design. That theory holds that some features of the universe and living things can be explained by an “intelligent cause.”

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Hitler is Darwin’s Illegitimate Son by Lady Hope!

May 2nd, 2008 Bones

The Truth is Finally Revealed–Hitler is Darwin’s Illegitimate Son by Lady Hope!

New internet research has documented the absolutely false story that Adolph Hitler was the illegitimate son of Charles Darwin!

This information has long been hidden, but can now be revealed for the first time. 

When Lady Hope visited Charles Darwin on his deathbed, and witnessed his deathbed conversion and his repentance for the theory of evolution, apparently more transpired than has been previously revealed–much more. And apparently Darwin was not nearly as close to death as had been reported.

Some nine months after Darwin’s death, Lady Hope delivered a child, but she sequestered him away until she could spirit him out of the country. She also fudged his age by seven years; he was small for his age so it worked. She found an Austrian orphanage that would take the young lad, and returned to America to get on with her evangelical activities, unencumbered by the demands of raising young Adolph. Through this subterfuge, the connection to Charles Darwin was safely obscured. Until now.

Little can be told of the earliest, and previously unsuspected, years of young Adolph’s life; they are obscured in mystery. We don’t even know if he was aware of the identity of his true father. But when it comes to genetics, Lysenko was right, and Hitler’s true character soon revealed itself.

And at last we can fill in the dots, and we know the true source of the attraction Adolph Hitler had for the theories of Charles Darwin, and which inspired him to some of the worse mass murder in history! Hitler was Darwin’s son.

Now you know the truth that has been hidden for so long!

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Schools evolution proposal could die

May 1st, 2008 midwifetoad

House and Senate bills must be reconciled before adjournment.

By Steve Patterson, The Times-Union

TALLAHASSEE - A proposal to let schoolteachers criticize the scientific basis of evolution may die in the Legislature because dueling plans haven’t been reconciled into a single bill.

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Others questioned whether the House effort was sabotaged.

“I’d say someone in the House, in the name of trying to push this bill, is actually trying to kill it,” said John West, senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, a Seattle-based organization that developed a model evolution-debate law that was the basis for Florida’s legislation.

“If nothing passes, I think there will be a lot of explaining to do,” he said.

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Bravo to the Man from Jupiter

April 29th, 2008 EmmaPeel

The Florida House of Representatives voted yesterday to protect the right of high school teachers to teach their students Discovery Institute’s talking points, er, I mean “the growing scientific controversy over evolution”. It was almost a straight party line vote, with the Republicans voting 71-2 in favor of gibberish.

Two Republicans voted in favor of sanity & reason. And one of these, former majority whip Carl Domino, (R)-Jupiter, wasn’t afraid to speak up against the science-deniers…

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