Expelled: Creationist’s Wacky Web Site for ID

If you want some real fun check this post out and link from my fundamentalist friend Tom. This Creationist site is off the wall and really, I get my best material from the fundamentalists in the audience:

I just prayed for you.

Check this out if you want to win $10,000.00

http://www.intelligentdesignversusevolution.com/

Some excerpts from this site:

• God Doesn’t Believe in Atheists
• Contrary to popular opinion, the existence of God can be proven
• Scientific Facts from the Bible: Shows the scientific facts that existed in the Bible long before “science” became aware of them. (Nothing like going to a two thousand year old book to get the latest scientific information, huh?)
• And the classic “Win $10,000 for the proof of evolution”. Thank god the entry is free. Read such classic arguments as “Just as a building is absolute proof there was a builder (no building ever built itself), creation is absolute proof there is a Creator.” Ouch, you got me there! I surrender.
• And the ever popular, “The more scientists have searched for the transitional forms that lie between species, the more they have been frustrated.” Newsweek, November 3, 1980. I guess the two legged snake doesn’t cut the mustard for the creationists anymore. Incredible Fossil Two-Legged Snake Link

Come on Tom, tell me this as a joke, right? This Creationist site has so much going on it reminds of Homer’s web site on an old Simpson’s episode where all he did was to steal other site’s clip art and place them on his own site. $10 grand to prove evolution; what is this the Price is Right? A truly craptacular site and like they say you can’t make this stuff up! Not to be missed by any aficionado of camp.

Erik John Bertel

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Expelled and Why Intelligent Design Sucks as Science

I just came to the realization as to why the religious and creationist wackos hate science. We all have heard the phrase, “god helps those that help themselves.” This guiding philosophy has been both the impetus and driving force behind the technology and science of man. The more illiterate among us, myself included, would assume this quote to be a variation on a bible verse but it actually originated from Ben Franklin and his Poor Richard’s almanac. In fact the bible take on helping yourself is far different:

Jer 17:5 (NIV) This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who depends on flesh for his strength and whose heart turns away from the LORD.”

Prov 28:26 (NIV) He who trusts in himself is a fool…

The answer and direction espoused by these verses is quite clear to a true believer: obedience to god and prayer is the only answer to living your life. This is a fundamental religious dogma that is necessary for religious leaders to maintain control over men. And remember most religion has little to do with god but has so much more to do with men controlling the destinies of other men. Blasphemy you say? Well ask yourself why have there been tens of thousands of different religions created over time? Can they all be right? How do you know your’s is right? The Egyptians were pretty sure they got it right and so were the Mayans and now we scoff at those beliefs. Do you think for a second our religions won’t change too over time as our knowldege grows? True believers don’t want to ask these questions nor do they want somebody else doing the same. Just wouldn’t be kosher to cast doubt on the words men use to speak for god.

Wow, when you analyze rigid fundamentalist bible thinking like the verses above you got to wonder why and how we got to the present stage in our cultural development? The answer is simple. Over the years science has proven to be more effective than prayer in improving our living standards. Prayer takes you only so far and if you believe in free will even the religious among you have to acknowledge that god will only go so far in helping you. I mean if god was going to intervene on a daily basis you think he would have thrown his weight behind rescuing the 12 million people that were being sent to the death camps in WWII. I mean there had to be some good people that died in the holocaust, right? Oh, I forgot that was Darwin’s fault according to Ben Stein and the Expelled crowd, as if hundreds of years of anti-Semitism never existed before. On the other hand, you have sports athlete regularly muttering silent prayers to god for his intervention. I don’t know, you have to take responsibility for your own life at some point and begging god for help is really an ineffective strategy in terms of getting ahead in your life. You can ask for strength but not for direct help!

Science and technology are at the forefront of that do it yourself belief culture and evolution/genetics are just one branch on that tree of thought. Compare ID as a science with biology. Intelligent Design arguments can be basically boiled down to a single argument of irreducible complexity, that is to say that life is far too complex to have been created by time and a series of random events/mutation alone and, finally, that most mutations are not beneficial to a living organism. That’s it, it is more of a negative argument than a substantial alternative theory. So what do they propose to teach in place of evolution? Intelligent Design has little to say about this other than there was some intelligent agent responsible for the creation and direction of life, wink wink…god!

So what can you do if you believe in Intelligent Design? I’m afraid it is more of the old bible formula of prayer and obedience. No sense in studying fossils because god was directing everything and his ways are not that easily discernible by man. I mean all of the extinct species were all in the Garden of Eden anyway at about the same time and wiped out by the flood, right? Genetics, who the hell needs genetics when god is at the steering wheel? And that is the problem with Intelligent Design, as my old genetics teacher once said, “you can’t do much with it.” But don’t worry if we Americans as a people decide to turn our collective backs on the teaching of evolution and genetics you can rest assured the rest of the world won’t feel so obliged and they will gladly fill the void. That will be a sorry day as a great nation and experiment in democracy falls to the dustbins of history.

Erik John Bertel

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Expelled and More Rush Limbaugh Crapola

Here are some more pearls of wisdom from Rush Limbaugh about Darwinists and apparently most biologists:

“These people fear God. These scientists, they fear God because God has the answers, God’s smarter than they are. God’s judgmental. That’s one of the things that liberals and atheists hate about religion anyway is that it’s judgmental.”

Obviously, Rush thinks he is going to fare well during judgment day. I guess he will get a pass on his vicodin law breaking spree with the big guy based on the body of his prior work. Yet, you know the freak is also into something else that is equally perverse.  That’s how it is with these chicken-hawk conservative types,  in real life they tend to be the biggest freaks.  What cracks me up is that these creationist horses asses like Rush love to play the card that most biologist and Darwinists are atheist when in fact quite the opposite is true. But hey, never let the facts get in the way, you know those atheists-agnostic-humanist-communists are holding back free speech in our schools.

Below is my original rant regarding Expelled and the Mighty Wind:

Okay, I just can’t let go of this one. The other problem with this silly pseudo-science is that Intelligent Design purports to have some great interfaith universality when in fact teaching Intelligent Design would be contrarian to many other religious beliefs as well. Many Buddhists have little need or no need for a creator/personal god guiding the direction of the universe and for a fundamentalist the god of Intelligent design would weaken the power of their personal god or their fundamental belief in a 6,000 year old earth. Intelligent design, as advocated by Expelled, is not only bad science but bad religious dogma for many people as well and is specifically a tired, rehashed Judaic/Christian fundamentalist dogma.

Furthermore, Intelligent Design is a belief structure that is reduced to disingenuous nitpicking at the edges of scientific theory called evolution, looking for a foothold where none is forthcoming or where the ground is forever shifting. And does anyone care the least bit that Intelligent Design actually destroys any illusion of free will? I mean when does god’s hand comes down and beginning squeezing the jaws of the chosen people so that the next generation can have one less molar? I am of course referring to the observation that our wisdom teeth have become superfluous in modern man as our jaws continued to be downsized. And if god is removing teeth as part of his great evolutionary plan what else is god mucking with? If all of this sounds rather silly as an argument well that’s because it is. Rather than being liberating like religion, Intelligent Design is a bastard child of Creationist’s convenience and is not terribly convincing even as a pseudo-science.

The loss of ‘free will’ is of no concern to Rush Limbaugh, after all he believes life should be scripted as per his own neo-conservative credo and no dissenter need apply. Rush skewers the scientific community with such dismissive comments as “the condescension and the arrogance these people have, they will readily admit that Darwinism and evolution do not explain how life began.” Hey, lard ass, it’s the theory of evolution and not the theory of creation! Jeez, can’t you follow any discriminating, structured argument?

So now the great vicodin-fueled gas bag himself has added his own personal endorsement to the movie Expelled. And why not? Minimal critical thinking is required to embrace Intelligent Design and with Intelligent Design god’s chosen species is once again returned to the top of the proverbial spiritual food chain. I should point out since man made god in his own image it comes as no surprise that most fundamentalist religions make it a point to exclude women from their own theocracy. When does the madness and stupidity stop?

Alright, I know I said that insults have to stop but really isn’t Rush Limbaugh just an escaped caricature from some perverse adult theme park? Al I can say is just be careful Rush or scientists will stop inventing new pain killers for you to buy from your housekeeper. And that cheesy photo of him with a cigar! Doesn’t he know cigars go best with a tacky Hawaiian shirt!

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Fossil snake shows its leg to the Expelled Crowd

The Creationist and Intelligent design crowd has some explaining to do about this transitional missing link for snakes.  Of course this missing link, the feathered dinosaurs and  the cetacean mesonychids fossils, well let’s face it, nothing satisfies the intellectual curiosity of  this crowd… oh, never mind, I forgot “god did it”!  Still they want to teach their pseudo-scientific crap in our public schools.

But go ahead and please explain away this recent fossil discovery my creationist friends.  I love to watch you dance!:

From the BBC:

A fossil animal locked in Lebanese limestone has been shown to be an extremely precious discovery – a snake with two legs.  Scientists have only a handful of specimens that illustrate the evolutionary narrative that goes from ancient lizard to limbless modern serpent.  Researchers at the European Light Source (ESRF) in Grenoble, France, used intense X-rays to confirm that a creature imprinted on a rock, and with one visible leg, had another appendage buried just under the surface of the slab.

Here’s the link:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7339508.stm

Myabe this was the one in the Garden of Eden, you never know!