#40407: dread pirate roberts — 09/16  at  02:09 PM
dave---so is spelling. apparently.

#40409: — 09/16  at  02:28 PM
God made man in his image, naked and pure, clothes are the devils work and any image of god arrayed so in the cloth of the devil is a falsity and perversion of the true god, and those who would clothe themselves in such garments to hide their sins from god in shame are fetishists, no less devient and abhorrent than sodomites for they yearn not for the partner god gave to them but for that which is masked by the devils fabrications or may even lust after the fabrication itself.

#40410: — 09/16  at  02:34 PM

God made man in his image, naked and pure, clothes are the devils work and any image of god arrayed so in the cloth of the devil is a falsity and perversion of the true god, and those who would clothe themselves in such garments to hide their sins from god in shame are fetishists, no less devient and abhorrent than sodomites for they yearn not for the partner god gave to them but for that which is masked by the devils fabrications or may even lust after the fabrication itself.

Ramen to that, and a side order of I dunno, whatever medicine.

#40416: Auguste — 09/16  at  04:14 PM
Bob, you can use the frog theory. I'm hoping to get the full data published in a peer-reviewed journal, but a pre-publication abstract shouldn't be too adverse.

#40417: — 09/16  at  04:21 PM
Judging from his lanuage, "Roger Lordblessed" is aka Hashishan Prophet, with the "Jesus is Dog" blog.

#40422: — 09/16  at  06:04 PM
Yes, I agree. The `reptoids' are a dead giveaway, as is the amalgamation of every imaginable conspiracy theory and delusion into one misshapen whole, and the deliberate referencing of other sock-puppet identities.

Roger hasn't mentioned the Illuminati yet, though.

#40425: Bob Davis — 09/16  at  06:54 PM
Auguste-
Thanks for the permission. The frog theory has been added to my blog, More Evolution Theories.
Thanks

#40429: — 09/16  at  08:27 PM
She instead of he? Her instead of Him? Has to be a parody.

#40430: — 09/16  at  08:58 PM
Yeah, there wasn't really anything about evolution in the last show (didn't Jon say in that last bit that maybe they'd gone a show or two too long with this theme?). Incorporating robotics into that is rather a stretch. And as far as The Answer goes, I don't think we really could have expected anything more than a sort of speech that tries to straddle the two sides (why must we fight?) and is then undercut by a joke ending.

I don't know who the hell Gwyneth's husband is either. And I think they really shouldn't have had her sit sideways to the camera, because she pretty much disappears at that angle.

#40433: — 09/16  at  09:56 PM
I think Roger moonlights as a label-writer for Dr. Bronner's soap company.

#40437: Auguste — 09/17  at  02:54 AM
Gwyneth's husband is Chris Martin, the lead singer of Coldplay.

Um, I heard.

#40439: — 09/17  at  04:22 AM
And who is this Gwyneth Paltrow?

#40446: jre — 09/17  at  04:33 PM
Sadly, I suspect Roger Lordblessed is for real.

Now, if you want to see a really, really good parody of fundamentalism, you need to go here.

#40447: — 09/17  at  04:53 PM
I think some of you missed the high art in the Daily Show's 'panel discussion'. The ID'ers know they cannot change science education from within science, so they are trying to use public pressure in the interest of 'fairness' to get their views heard in the science classroom. Yet here was Dembski, who no doubt considers himself a serious scientist, forced to listen respectfully to a total wack job on his right as she constructed sentences meaning absolutely nothing. It was a perfect demonstration of the slippery slope we face if we allow just anyone to determine what is taught in science.

#40454: — 09/17  at  07:21 PM
About the daily show, I was disappointed the most by the fact that there was not one evolutionary biologist in the whole week-long segment. Why do a show about evolutionary biology if you're not going to interview an evolutionary biologist? Sure, they had Dan Wharton but he's into conservation biology and captive breeding.

I was willing to tolerate Vonnegut. But Gwyneth Paltrow as the last interview!? WTF!? That was really disapointing. Why maintain any pretense of the Thursday show being part of the Evolution Schmevolution series?

No, i think the whole series was bust. Sure there were some good moments, but overall it just doesn't seem that Jon and crew had enough commitment to the concept. Boring! Probably would have been brilliant if it had just been one show.