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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Retarded Creationists Fire Back on Expelled the Movie Criticism

I tell you I get all kinds. The following rambling diatribe and its collective pearls of wisdom is kind of a norm for some of these Creationist folks. Let’s have a look at what we are dealing with in this classic comment from the retarded form of religion as Dr. Dawkins likes to call it (his words, not mine but more on those unfortunate words a little later in this piece) :

You forget this nation was founded on fundamental Christian principles reaped from the Word of God, the Bible, and the one and only God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. America was not founded to worship other gods and, in fact, God commands us not to worship any other gods nor even let their names come out of our mouths. It sounds all well and good to allow everyone in America to worship anyone they please no matter how pagan and wicked, but that is man’s idea and not God’s.

Cool, he’s anti-American as well! You know he reports to a higher authority like the voices in his head. Wait, there’s more:

God nearly destroyed Israel because of their turning to heathen gods and He’s going to do the same thing to America. He likens running to another god to a bride becoming a prostitute.

Okay, so if you don’t believe in his god you are some sort of a theological slut! No way, I’m a marketing slut and damn proud of it, so please visit my Flores Girl Podcast as Podiobooks, just click on the chick in the jungle on your right! But I digress…

So it is not so weird that the majority of Americans believe they were created by and in the image of God. Yet the Christians are called the idiotic and stupid ones. No, it is the minority of atheists and heathens who have tried to take over a Christian nation who are the ignorant ones and America is finally getting fed up with it. The Christians have been told to sit down and shut up but that time is over. We will no longer be oppressed and run over by a minority group of people trying to convince us we evolved from an ape when in fact we were created just a little lower than the angels.

Folks there you have it, on the spiritual evolutionary scale we are just a notch below the angels. And that small minority groups sounds suspiciously like those pesky Jews. Watch out Ben Stein, you’re next with this crowd! And now for the grand finale:

Maybe all the evolutists (sic) should go find their own little island somewhere where they can jump through the trees and eat bananas and be like their descendants and leave the normal, sane people here.

Actually, I think most evolutionists will acknowledge that our ancestors were partial to meat-eating. As to his or her sanity I will leave that assessment to the reader but I think this writer just escaped from the polygamist compound in Texas.

And there you have it, another well reasoned and erudite Creationist writing. To be fair I have also reasoned some intelligent, good natured responses from the Intelligent Design crowd. And the pro-evolutionary force is not beyond a little god-baiting and name calling as well. Take for example the evolutionist Dr. Richard Dawkins straight from his acting debut in Expelled and his acerbic comment about where the resistance to evolution is coming from:

“It comes, I’m sorry to say, from religion. And from bad religion. You won’t find any opposition to the idea of evolution among sophisticated, educated theologians. It comes from an exceedingly retarded, primitive version of religion, which unfortunately is at present undergoing an epidemic in the United States. Not in Europe, not in Britain, but in the United States.”

Or how about this bon mot from the good doctor when asked about why we believe in God?

“One suggestion is that the child mind is, for very good Darwinian reasons, susceptible to infection the same way a computer is…”

So how did this virus start in the first place Dr. Dawkins? From God or do all humans have innate longing to follow an alpha male? And you have to admit god is the biggest alpha male you are ever going to find! The point is a scientist can find a hypothesis for every observable human behavior even the ones they believe to be retarded. You don’t have to denigrate the argument about a belief in god into a round of name calling and that borders on the juvenile even for an esteemed scientist. So everybody has their own agenda, including me, so please click on my podcast. Now if you want to make fun of Intelligent Design, well, I am all for it but as for the retarded comment I think that is a bit much. What do you think?