Breakfast Links: Peter Pan, Facebook & Creationism
Ok this is a blast from the internet’s past. Remember years ago that dude who dressed up like Peter Pan? Was on the internets that day? Apparently he’s been around ever since then and blogging and doing stuff that people kept reading! Not only that… he just got married… to Tinkerbell! They grow up so fast, don’t they? Why I feel like it was only several years ago that we were looking at him in his Little Lord Fauntleroy outfit (although it was the black one predating his fame, not this new fancy burgundy one). Huh, who knew?
Now, that’s the way to dress up like a fairy. Here’s the thing, if you’re going to go to a Halloween party, dress up like a fairy and post it to your Facebook account… yeah, don’t friend your boss who you lied to about missing work. He’s going to get a little thumbnail of the picture in his feed and he’s not going to miss it. Then, he’ll forward your email and that picture to everyone in your office which will then make it on to the internet. Probably not the best move.
Oh, imaginary creatures what is your allure? If those two guys were little homages to fancifulness, then the Creation Museum is a cathedral to it. This most recent Salon piece provides a pretty interesting look into the life and times of Creationism Intelligent Design but really you gotta read John Scalzi’s trip report to the museum.
Here’s how to understand the Creation Museum:
Imagine, if you will, a load of horseshit.
Really, that about sums it up, no? Makes me want to go read The Last Colony which I’ve been too lazy to get around to doing.
I put those in order of shame - Peter Pan? Hey man, he’s getting married, raising funds, living his life - it ain’t my style, but more power to him. Fairy guy? Well.. I don’t know if he’s living his dream, but he probably lost his job or at least wishes he did… Creation Museum? Dude, you spent $27million and you’re trying to convince us that people used to ride around on dinosaurs who were vegetarian until the fall. That’s embarrassing.
UPDATE: I forgot. From the slate piece, Ben Stein’s all pro I.D., yeah that Ben Stein. But he makes a fatal error, from which I pronounce the end of I.D. He says this of the a pro-ID documentary… if he had his way the documentary would have been called “From Darwin to Hitler.” AAAAnnnnhhhhh. Godwin’s Law, you lose, thank you for playing, don’t come again.
November 14th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
I just saw an episode of Nova last night called “Intelligent Design on Trial”. Everyone with an IQ over 40 knows that Intelligent Design is not only Bullshit but a very poorly hidden agenda by the hardcore Christians to make everyone a hardcore Christian. . . Apparently lying to them and making them, literally, dumber is of no consequence. Anyway. I have never seen Intelligent Design chewed up and spit out so matter of fact-ly. It was a beautiful thing. Try to catch it on a rerun if you can. If any Intelligent Design moron tries to argue with you they will most likely use one argument. Why believe Darwinism is it is just a theory? What they fail to understand is that scientific theory’s are not ideas, they are thousands of ideas that have been put together with rigorous testing and constant facts to back it up, some not even in that field. Ask them if they have a problem with the theory of gravity. Funny, they have such a problem with coming from apes and you hear that argument form them all the time. “I didn’t come from no ape”. It’s that ignorant yet pompous attitude that kills me. that’s your beef? That you don’t want to have come from an ape? You know what they are basically saying is they think blacks are monkeys and they don’t want to have anything in common with blacks. Idiots. 23 chromosomes people, we all got em.
November 14th, 2007 at 2:36 pm
AND ANOTHER THING! Sorry to rant, but if they would look at the reality of the situation, the fact that evolution and natural selection take so long but are so successful they would see the real intelligent design. Maybe there IS a blueprint but it’s on the microbial level. I’m an agnostic and I have no problem considering that. Now wouldn’t that be truly more amazing? So much more amazing then *poof* theres a bird. *poof* theres a cow. Not only are they missing THE point, but they may be missing their point.
November 14th, 2007 at 4:50 pm
That’s funny, I think that that Nova documentary was, more or less, what inspired that Salon piece! I really want to see it, I’ll have to look for the next time as I’m a tivoless luddite.
And no worries about the ranting. A) that’s what the internet is for and B) I totally agree with you. :)
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