#49874: aa — 11/20  at  07:53 AM
Have you too been touched by his noodly appendage?

#49875: — 11/20  at  08:35 AM
Better discussion than Scott Adams latest. I almost find it convincing - except there are no pirates or squid involved.

#49878: — 11/20  at  08:55 AM
I have something else for your Sunday entertainment: A UK TV ad for Guinness titled noitulovE (yes, Evolution backwards).

[url="http://www.framestore-cfc.com/press/05pr/051003noitulove"]
http://www.framestore-cfc.com/press/05pr/051003noitulove[/url]

#49879: — 11/20  at  09:02 AM
I noticed that FotTrot also had an evolutionary theme

#49880: Raven — 11/20  at  09:25 AM
Nice one, Kristjan--reminds me, every Thanksgiving one of my friends likes to give thanks for the meteorite that resulted in our eating the turkey, rather than the other way around.

#49881: Alon Levy — 11/20  at  09:25 AM
That theory's a lot more plausible than Christianity, I must say.

#49888: — 11/20  at  11:54 AM
Speaking of what other have to say about ID, etc. I just ran across the comment at Altercation ...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3449870/

Name: Dave
Hometown: Albany, NY
When Dr. Breland and others talk about intelligent design, I'm reminded of Richard Feynman's 1974 commencement address at Caltech. In explaining the scientific method, he contrasted it with "Cargo Cult Science." Criticizing pseudo-science, he said:

We really ought to look into theories that don't work, and science that isn't science. I think the educational and psychological studies I mentioned are examples of what I would like to call cargo cult science. In the South Seas there is a cargo cult of people. During the war they saw airplanes with lots of good materials, and they want the same thing to happen now. So they've arranged to make things like runways, to put fires along the sides of the runways, to make a wooden hut for a man to sit in, with two wooden pieces on his head to headphones and bars of bamboo sticking out like antennas--he's the controller--and they wait for the airplanes to land. They're doing everything right. The form is perfect. It looks exactly the way it looked before. But it doesn't work. No airplanes land. So I call these things cargo cult science, because they follow all the apparent precepts and forms of scientific investigation, but they're missing something essential, because the planes don't land.

He went on to explain that what was missing was scientific integrity - doing all one could to enable others to test your theory and possibly prove it wrong. It's impossible to imagine any proponent of ID displaying that kind of scientific integrity. You can find his whole speech here. There's also an excellent discussion of intelligent design, creationism, and science, titled " Intelligent Design Has No Place in the Science Curriculum," here.

#49890: — 11/20  at  12:06 PM
IN light of the Guiness add, here's another that reveals how the intelligent designer actually did it.

http://www.2flashgames.com/viewlink.php?url=http://www.lookatentertainment.com/v/v-1190.htm&id=1631

#49898: — 11/20  at  01:38 PM
"it's as credible as Intelligent Design and the Flying Spaghetti Monster, after all."

I wonder if the creationists will embrace that and argue to have being as credible as ID enshrined as the standard for incorporating theories of species origin into science curricula. The idea would be to swamp evolution in a tidal wave of theories that have the scientific credibility of ID (i.e. none).

#49903: — 11/20  at  02:48 PM
Does that skull-in-a-heart design on Danae's t-shirt (dress?) qualify as pirate regalia and thus as an FSM-approved contribution to reduce global warming?

Trackback: It all started with ... Tracked on: Modulator (63.247.135.223) at 2005 11 20 18:07:39
...the big bang. Via Pharyngula....

#49979: — 11/20  at  10:16 PM
With Calvin's retirement, Danae is without question the best character on the comics page.

#50046: — 11/21  at  11:02 AM
Opps,

Got the wrong link for the "Intelligent Designer" at work.

http://www.lookatentertainment.com/v/v-1109.htm