Royal Society "Creationist" Resigns 658
Chris_Keene writes in to let us know that the Prof. Michael Reiss, who recently caused a storm with comments about teaching creationism in schools, has resigned from his post as director of education at the Royal Society in the UK. This news coincides with word out of the Anglican church that it is ready to apologize to Charles Darwin, 150 years after it poured scorn on his theory of evolution by natural selection. "The Church of England will concede in a statement that it was over-defensive and over-emotional in dismissing Darwin's ideas. It will call 'anti-evolutionary fervor' an 'indictment' on the Church."
First Intelligently Designed Trout! (Score:2, Funny)
I AM A FISH!
That was an intelligently designed decision (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, no, it was survival by the fittest.
A terrible shame (Score:3, Funny)
The contemporary militant Tooth Fairy jihadist movement [today.com] continues to be disrespected by these scientific infidels.
Re:That was an intelligently designed decision (Score:5, Funny)
Creationists Evolved, Evolutionists were created....
Burying Ms Hatchet. (Score:1, Funny)
"This news coincides with word out of the Anglican church that it is ready to apologize to Charles Darwin, 150 years after it poured scorn on his theory of evolution by natural selection. "The Church of England will concede in a statement that it was over-defensive and over-emotional in dismissing Darwin's ideas. It will call 'anti-evolutionary fervor' an 'indictment' on the Church.""
Now will the evolutionist and the creationists kiss and make up?
Re:Evolution (Score:5, Funny)
Gravity is just a theory, not a proven fact, but I still fall over...
Re:First Intelligently Designed Trout! (Score:5, Funny)
wehat dio yoiui meaan fgins domnt woerk, yiou inswensatiove clode!
Re:Intellectuals are so right... (Score:4, Funny)
I guess I must have missed the part on telepathy and omniscience.
Re:Evolution (Score:3, Funny)
God spoke English in 4004 BC? (Score:3, Funny)
Wow, cool. So the KJV is the original word of God.
Re:First Intelligently Designed Trout! (Score:5, Funny)
I AM A FISH!
I am the walrus.
That means you are dinner.
(And before some smart-ass tells me that walruses prefer mollusks, yeah, I know. Now stop trying to ruin my joke.)
(And before some smart-ass tells me that I did that all on my own, yeah, I know. Now stop trying to ruin my meta-joke.)
Re:First Intelligently Designed Trout! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:please, please ... (Score:1, Funny)
Please Please yourself.
No - please please me - whoa yeah!
Re:First Intelligently Designed Trout! (Score:4, Funny)
Does 'meta-joke' refer more accurately to a joke about jokes, as in your example, or a joke that generates other joke, like the Irish knock-knock joke (hint: you start), or one that sort of does both?
"Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability."
-- Bill Bailey
Re:Nonsense (Score:2, Funny)
Gosh. It's been a long time. I'm pretty sure I could divide an angle into an number of divisions using my compass and a straight edge. The trick is that you have to be an engineer instead of a mathematician. It reminds me of a joke...
An engineer and a mathematician are standing some distance away from Natalie Portman who is holding a pot of steaming hot grits. They are told that they can only approach Natalie by covering one half the distance with each iteration. They can use as many iterations as they want to approach Natalie. The mathemetician leaves in disgust. The engineer says, "I can get close enough for practical purposes."
Re:First Intelligently Designed Trout! (Score:1, Funny)
I am the walrus.
An Royel Sosietty can evolve me new bukkit.
Re:The good doctor was a vicar instead (Score:4, Funny)
It'd be like finding out a Linux admin runs Windows at home. He'd be ridiculed until he had to step down with a tarnished reputation and may not ever be able to work in computers again.
Re:God spoke English in 4004 BC? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:That was an intelligently designed decision (Score:1, Funny)
... that evolved basically from a molecule and so forth and so forth.
It's molecules all the way down. Sheesh.
Re:God spoke English in 4004 BC? (Score:4, Funny)
My neighbor Yoshi disagrees, as does my neighbor Ramanathan and my neighbor Ali. I'd ask my neighbor Steve, but he's an Evangelical, and at the moment he and his wife are getting their nightly word of God from Fox News.
Re:please, please ... (Score:5, Funny)
Mentioning "creationism" when your in the Royal Academy of Science is not unlike mentioning "blowjob" at a meeting of the Evangelical Women's Association. It's a little more than a "slip of the tongue", and you might get asked to leave.
Re:please, please ... (Score:4, Funny)
Clearly, you've never met a Missouri fundamentalist.
Re:That was an intelligently designed decision (Score:3, Funny)
Re:That was an intelligently designed decision (Score:5, Funny)
Actually science still can't explain where DNA came from or for that matter science cannot explain matter.
Which is why I personally don't believe in matter.
I would love if Evolutionists would reconsider their views but for them it is the Holy Grail and a religion
Damn scientists and their unwavering, dogmatic belief in whichever theory is best supported by the evidence!
I don't dispute evolution as in "Survival of the fittest" and change over time and adaptations. I reject it as an explanation for the source of all matter, dna, and life. It doesn't tackle those subjects yet you always see those lumped into evolutionary discussions.
You stand brave against that strawman! I also reject evolution as an explanation for continental drift, tornados, and the northern lights. Take THAT, scientific dogma!
Re:That was an intelligently designed decision (Score:4, Funny)
Re:What a waste. -- Mod up (Score:2, Funny)
For non-UK readers - the Daily Mail is a conservative right wing tabloid.
That's a contradiction in terms. Tabloids are anathema to social conservatives.
it is very pro-Christian, and anti-atheism
I have read scores of stories in the Daily Mail over the years (linked from Drudge), and I'm stunned at your opinion. Pro-Christian? On its site right now, there are no fewer than half a dozen headlined stories focusing on the "pro-Christian" topic of boobs--one of them on male boobs. It's like that every day. The site is almost pornographic. I try to ignore the naughty links on the side, and as a follower of the Bible personally, I'm a little ashamed to admit that I read stories there. The site, over all, definitely promotes an atheistic/humanistic philosophy over a Christian one. If the Daily Mail is what passes for "pro-Christian" in the UK media, the rest must have gone to hell, literally. I know it's not really that bad, but you calling the Daily Mail conservative is like Palestinians calling Bill Clinton a Zionist.
Re:That was an intelligently designed decision (Score:3, Funny)
"Creationist" Resigns (Score:2, Funny)
Re:That was an intelligently designed decision (Score:3, Funny)
Was it the first mention of rain? Rain requires clouds to form.
I'm going to regret wading into to this I suspect.
Re:That was an intelligently designed decision (Score:1, Funny)
If a memetic equivalent of an asteroid strikes (say, a sequence of DNA from a 200-year-old Galapagos Tortoise, that, when translated from base-4 to base-2 and divided into 8-bit bytes, produces ASCII for "This being copyright God, Inc., 4004 BC, and limited license is hereby given to this being to go forth and multiply", and said sequence is discovered before the invention of self-propagating genetically-engineered Galapagos-Tortoise-specific retroviruses), we evolutionists will be happy to reconsider our views.
Dude - I am so going to synthesize that retrovirus now! Heck, I might as well insert my own name and take all the credit...
Re:That was an intelligently designed decision (Score:3, Funny)
Re:matter is just a residue (Score:3, Funny)
All possible stuff and their opposite.
So somewhere out there is a man called Bush W George, an intelligent and respected man, who is opposed to war and cares deeply about the environment.
Of course with all things being opposite Bush W George lost the election to the warmongering, environment destroying imbecile Gore Al, so the anti-matter universe is not really all that different too our own in the end.
Re:First Intelligently Designed Trout! (Score:3, Funny)
My favorite of that ilk:
A priest, a clown and a six-foot tall talking rabbit walk into a bar. The bartender goes, "What is this, some kind of a joke?"