Posts Tagged ‘Richard Dawkins’

Nisbet/Mooneygate

Posted on March 24th, 2008 by blue collar scientist

Greg Laden has an excellent post up about what I can only conclude are antiscience activists Matt Nisbet and Chris Mooney - who, for reasons I cannot understand, host their blogs at Scienceblogs.

I’ll be revisiting this issue this week with a proper explanation of why I consider these framists to be fatal to science education and communication, but just right now, I’m sending press releases all over the country, and I simply don’t have time.

By the way, check this blog tomorrow around 10:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time, or 6:00 AM Alaska Daylight Time, for an announcement of some very big news involving some of our favorite people.

Saint PZ?

Posted on March 21st, 2008 by blue collar scientist

If you haven’t heard - and really, if you are learning of this here, you really should read some other blogs - the makers of Expelled, a propaganda movie claiming that science professors kick intelligent design creationists out of classes, lectures, and discussions of evolution in order to censor debate, have kicked a science professor out of a screening of their movie in oder to censor debate.

Repeat after me: HYPOCRITES!

What’s truly baffling about this is that they kicked out PZ Myers, but they let his guest in. His guest? Richard Dawkins. You know, the virulently anti-intelligent design guy who even wrote a book called The God Delusion. Nobody could write fiction this good.

Repeat after me: DUMBASSES!

The movie also apparently claims that frail bespectacled science professors sitting in their offices and writing letters to one another were responsible for the murder of six million Jews in Nazi Germany.

Repeat after me: Deplorably disrespectful of the millions of people alive today who lost family as a result of a genocidal Christian dictator and his devout henchmen. These intelligent design creationists are just uncivilized for suggesting such a thing.

Greg Laden, from whom I’ve lifted the images, has a running mini-carnival of posts about this. If you haven’t heard the story, it should be enough to convince you that (a) intelligent design creationists are radical religious extremists, and (b) religious extremism is inherently silly, at least when it isn’t deadly.

LOL-PZ

LOL-Dawkins