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Why People Laugh At Creationists

Part 23, The Larch Ben Stein



Which reminds me - we need to add another letter to the Latin alphabet; either that, or standardize on duodecimal arithmetic.  At the moment, the upper and lower case letters plus the digits give us 62 symbols, which is not enough for handy base-64 encoding, which is what Youtube uses for their public IDs.  Which means a Youtube ID can begin with -, which is not exactly obvious when you're cutting and pasting.  (Not in this case, but in general.)

This article at Real Detroit Weekly includes some snippets from an interview with Expelled associate producer Mark Mathis (scroll down to the bottom to find the section titled Unevolved) who shows a depth of understanding of Evolutionary Theory rivalling Stein's.  True masochists can find an hour-long discussion betweent Mathis and the editors of Scientific America here.

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1 Who made that video? The attack on the word supernatural ("it's a crutch"), while funny, came off a little bitter for general consumption, and not biting enough for the in-crowd.

I particularly loved it when Stein complained that the ToE didn't explain gravity. You know what? The ToE doesn't explain why my socks have holes in them. But the ToID (Theory of Intelligent Design... say the acronym out loud a few times, and imagine you're from Brooklyn) does. My socks have holes, gravity works, and people exist because God wanted it that way. There you go. Problem solved. Case closed. We can shut down the universities and put the professors to work doing something useful, like growing rice and reading Mao.

Oh, wait, somebody already did that...

Posted by: Yahzi at Monday, April 28 2008 03:48 AM (yn9dj)

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