Last night’s futurama episode had a heavy evolution vs creationist theme. Although these kinds of comedy bits normally just make me depressed about the state of the world, this one was actually pretty funny. I was able to not get mad at the fact that creationists exist, and actually have a bit of fun with it.
I found the best part of the episode up on youtube. Check out the clip here. Sorry, embedding was disabled.
In other news, I’ve added a shelfari widget to the right side bar. It shows the books that I’m currently reading. Now that exams are over, it will actually be getting updated now as I finish books.
I realize that picking on creationists is almost too easy, and that I do it too much here, but sometimes it is just too hard to resist posting videos like this. Watching these kinds of videos triggers a bunch of mixed emotions in me. I normally start off laughing at the beginning, then shift to being angry, and then end up feeling sad for the children at the end. This really has to be considered child abuse.
check it out….
A creationist randomly stopped by my tree planting camp this summer and dropped off a bunch of pamphlets. This was the best/worst one.
I want to start out by saying how much I appreciate comments. They are one of the things that keeps me blogging and almost all of them are good.
Lately, however, I have been getting quite a few poorly thought out comments. These are normally from creationists. I really do not understand why they keep on exposing themselves like this, as people are just going to make fun of them even more (like this).
Etienne has been kind enough to provide me with some fodder for this post, and I have kindly graded her comments below.
I hope this does not put too many people off commenting here, but maybe it will make people a bit more cautious.
These comments were from a post I wrote a while ago about losing respect for Ben Stein. Check out the graded version below:
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Yesterday, PLoS Biology published an alarming study about creationist belief demographics among high school biology teachers. It showed that 16% of high school biology teachers are young earth creationists (that’s the worst kind). This means that 16% of these teachers believe that the world is under 10,000 years old. This is just too ridiculous. I can’t imagine anyone actually believing it, let alone biology teachers. It’s scary to think that these people are teaching kids. I believe that these teachers should be fired and have their degrees revoked by their respective universities.
Actually, they shouldn’t have gotten their degrees in the first place. Before getting a science degree, students should be asked: “Are you a creationist?” If they give the wrong answer, they shouldn’t get their degree.
PZ Meyers summed up this morning’s news the best.
Here’s the most depressing thing I’ve seen all week (and I’m grading genetics exams): it’s the result of a national survey of high school biology teachers.
Below is the main figure from the study:
If you have the guts, go read the full study [via Pharyngula]
Here is a video of a tour group giving biblically correct museum tours. It makes me sick how little they know about the methods of science and how they are ‘teaching’ this to innocent children. Dawkins has referred to scaring children about hellfire as child abuse. I consider these tours to be child abuse as well; they are possibly even worse than giving children nightmares about hell.
I was really surprised how passive the museum employees were. If I was an employee, I would have physically removed the ‘teachers’ from the premises.
I’ve been doing a fair amount of creationist bashing recently, and have have created a new category: “Creationist Bashing.” I don’t think that it really fits into the atheism category. Even though creationists are highly aligned with religion, I don’t consider them to be part of the argument on the existence of a divine being. Even if evolution were to be shown to be wrong, there is still no evidence for a god. This is why I don’t consider creationists to be part of the argument. They are just an easy target for a bit of occasional comedy.
Do you guys think that this is child abuse? If so, should it be punishable? I think so.
[via The Atheist Jew]
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