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Tuesday, September 07, 2004

Objective: Make Fun of Creationists

Awww, how sweet. We've been spoofed.

Evolutionists Forced By Preponderance Of Evidence To Finally Publish Intelligent Design Paper In Peer-Reviewed Journal
The origin of biological information and the higher taxonomic categories by Stephen C. Meyer of the Discovery Institute, an important paper in the history of Science on par with Watson and Crick's paper on the structure of DNA which demolishes all the false icons of Evolutionism and breaks open Darwin's black box by showing that only the Intelligent Design of the Lord can account for the origins of the bauplans of the higher taxa, has been published in the highly-respected journal Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington (Vol. 117, No. 2, pp. 213-239). After years of stonewalling and refusal to acknowledge that the theory of Evolutionism is in crisis, Evolutionists have admitted defeat and allowed their tightly controlled peer-review journal to finally publish the truth. The PBSW's editor, Richard von Sternberg, who is also on the editorial board of the Baraminology Study Group, has long been forced by the hegemony of Evolutionist dogma to keep papers supporting ID out of the journal. But because of Dr. Meyer's devastating critique of Evolutionistic teachings on the Punctuated Equilibrium, and his discovery of high levels of Complex Specified Information (CSI) in animal kinds from the Cambrian Explosion, the forces of Evolutionism had no viable excuse not to allow von Sternberg to publish Dr. Meyer's paper. Now that the flood gates are open, hundreds of other papers supporting Intelligent Design will soon be appearing in all relevant journals, thus marking the end of Evolutionism's strangle hold on academia. We are truly living in wondrous times.

[UPDATE 9-4-2004] Respected news organizations the Washington Times and World Net Daily are both reporting that Evolutionists -- acting through Darwinian activists at a notorious anti-Creation message board called "The Panda's Thumb" -- have gone on the offensive and are responding to this fatal blow to Evolutionist Philosophy with "hysteria, name-calling and personal attack." In particular, Evolutionist thought police are accusing PBSW's editor Sternberg of "being a Creationist" (he is, as mentioned above, on the editorial board of the BSG as well as a signatory to the Discovery Institute's "A Scientific Dissent on Darwinism") and suggesting that the paper "received some editorial shepherding through the peer review process." Poppycock! As Sternberg notes, the paper was found by three peer reviewers to be "meritorious, warranting publication."

It's becoming clear that Darwinists just can't accept that the game's up. Listen guys... you had a good run. You got a large number of people to actually believe they are monkey's uncles while you mingled with Hollywood elite on the set of Jurassic Park and lived it up on tenure at fancy colleges. But it's over. Now just peacefully turn in your lab coats and go join the phrenologists stuffing envelopes from their homes.

By the way, the full paper is now on-line at Discovery Institute: The origin of biological information and the higher taxonomic categories by Stephen C. Meyer. We advise you to make a backup copy before desperate Darwinian hackers try and take the site down.

Yep, that's us: "Darwinian activists at a notorious anti-Creation message board called 'The Panda's Thumb'". Notorious. It's gratifying to be recognized.


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Comments:
#5845: — 09/07  at  02:00 PM
What the hell? Why didn't you guys tell me we got a trip to the Jurassic Park set?!? I always miss out on the fun field trips.



#5846: — 09/07  at  02:18 PM
I wanted to get in on the mingling.



#5847: DarkSyde — 09/07  at  02:28 PM
Ahh man that is just freaking pathetic. I was thinking over the last few days, in between repeated poundings by the storm, that Americans not only suck at science, we've actually never been that good at it. Sure we'vce invented some things asnd refined others, but when you look at how large our population is and how free our societies are, our scientific successes don't really stand out like one would think they would.
Our greatest scientific achievements, the Moon Landing or the Atomic Bomb, were not produced by American scientists, but rather mostly by captured or refugee scientists from Europe during the Nazi scare.
There's something weird in America when it comes to science. It's like Americans revel in their ignorance. They're proud of it. It's truly bizarre.



#5848: — 09/07  at  02:29 PM
I hereby christen you The Notorious PZM



#5850: — 09/07  at  02:36 PM
I just couldn't get past the line Respected news organizations the Washington Times and World Net Daily without laughing. That's gotta be a joke, right?



's avatar #5851: PZ Myers — 09/07  at  02:38 PM
Although, DarkSyde, keep in mind that that site is pure satire. It's mocking the creationists.

PZ Myers
Division of Science and Math
University of Minnesota, Morris



#5852: — 09/07  at  02:39 PM
Props to Notorious on getting called a Gangsta
Scientist by the Moonies.

P.S. Gonna pick up that Bling-bling diamond-encrusted microscope from Bell and Howell, "P"?

P.P.S. I'm sure that this series of extremely broad jokes would rocket over the collective heads of the WashTimes/WorldNutDaily crowd if they even bothered to read them.



#5865: — 09/07  at  06:37 PM
Can you tell us who did the spoof?



's avatar #5866: PZ Myers — 09/07  at  06:49 PM
The same people who do Landover Baptist.

PZ Myers
Division of Science and Math
University of Minnesota, Morris



#5867: — 09/07  at  07:15 PM
I had a quick look at the aforementioned WorldNutDaily piece and was amused by this:

Meyer puts it even more bluntly: "I have received a number of private communications from scientists expressing their agreement or intrigue with the arguments that I develop in my article."

Anybody got the lyrics to "The Lurkers Support Me in Email?"



's avatar #5868: PZ Myers — 09/07  at  07:20 PM
Here you go.

PZ Myers
Division of Science and Math
University of Minnesota, Morris



#5870: — 09/07  at  07:30 PM
Okay, well, is there a link to the spoof anywhere? I can't find it on their site. TIA.



's avatar #5872: PZ Myers — 09/07  at  08:04 PM
Oops, I forgot to add the link. It's there now.

PZ Myers
Division of Science and Math
University of Minnesota, Morris



#5914: — 09/09  at  09:29 AM
Am I the only person who at first read "Barmyology Study Institute?"



#5917: Les Lane — 09/09  at  11:13 AM
Barmyology certainly captures the essence.

For novices to creationism, "baramin" (for creationist "kind") was coined by Frank Lewis Marsh who was the first Seventh Day Adventist to get a biology PhD (here at Nebraska I'm sad to say). He taught for many years at Union College here in Lincoln.

For most creationists "baramin" is enough to make it scientific.



#5938: — 09/10  at  03:11 AM
(I hope this is a response to Les' comment, created by clicking on the '#')

I thought Baramin was a Captain of Gondor? In any event, it sounds cool--I think I'll use it as a name for a D&D character soon. Thus making fun of creationists while participating in one of the crypto-Satanic passtimes they so disapprove of ("But I don't want to be Elfstar..")

Incidentally, the number one molecular bioligist and probably number one research biologist in this Republic is a Seventh-Day Adventist. No kidding, couldn't make this one up. Pavel Martesak, works on fairly obscure genetic disorders. He is some sort of Biblical literalist, banned his son from watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer due to its advocacy of black magic, etc. Jakob, his son, is a good friend of mine and says his dad simply compartmentalizes his work on genetics with his literalist and presumably Creationist (I don't think Jakob has ever figured out his dad's exact cosmological views) beliefs. Jakob himself is studying theology and converting to Judaism, his family's former religion...

As a former student of cultural anthropology, I can say that the human ability to reconcile what logically one would expect to be mutually exclusive belief systems is truly staggering.



#5942: — 09/10  at  07:22 AM
oh, dear, both Jakob and his father are YECs and now I seem to have got into a fight with a friend of mine. I always assumed Jakob wasn't because he rebelled against so much of his father's religion.

Now I just don't understand anything.



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