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Philosopher
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: USA
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Kirk Cameron: subverting Darwin...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/0..._n_294349.html
A novel approach....provide copies of Darwin edited to emphasize the superiority of creationsim and the evil of Darwin ... |
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Catholic School Survivor
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: New York, NY
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Apparently, lying is okay as long as it's for Jesus.
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Dragon Killer
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Newbury, Berkshire
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I loved it when she said "the various hoaxes of christianity"
she so hot
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Senno Ecto Gama ĝae haš dug zae ama kibid "Stupid humans" (Wollery) "Kill all humans" (Bender) "for while heaven may be closed I am always open, even on Christmas." (Lucifer) |
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Cythraul Enfys
Join Date: May 2006
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This is the same Kirk Cameron who finds bananas to be perfectly designed by dog to fit right up his.........
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Orthogonal Vector
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Ossining NY
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And the Crocoduck proves evolution is wrong.
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Sufficiently advanced Woo is indistinguishable from Parody "There shall be no *poofing* in science" Paul C. Anagnostopoulos Force ***** on reasons back" Ben Franklin |
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Certified Castlevania Fanboy
Join Date: May 2009
Location: The Clock Tower Boss Room
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Well, they're going to be distributed at the "top 50" institutions of higher learning - so hopefully the students there will have had a basic logic course and realize that the new introduction is what it is - a huge pile of logical fallacies, particularly ad hominem attacks.
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"What is a man? Just a miserable little pile of secrets!" - Dracula, Castlevania ![]() "The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head." - Terry Pratchett, Hogfather |
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Muse
Join Date: Dec 2002
Posts: 526
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She IS freakin' hot. The accent does funny things to me.
I wish I could get a copy. It will probably be a collectors item as many will be defaced or thrown out. I love the idea of publishing a Bible with a preface by Richard Dawkins. |
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Appearance of intelligence
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Vancouver
Posts: 1,531
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I'm a hetero woman and even *I* thought that chick was hot.
How can Kirk Cameron or any religious person talk about Darwin's "disdain for women" when they've got a book filled with crap about us, beginning with the idea that menstruation is a sin? And why does he think the rise of atheism is a bad thing? Shouldn't he at least pretend to believe in the idea of freedom to choose one's own religious beliefs, instead of ramming his backwoods breed of Christianity down everyone's throats at taxpayer expense? Sheesh. I third the notion that Dawkins should write a 50-page intro to the bible and hand them out for free. |
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Graduate Poster
Join Date: Mar 2009
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Wow; ZOMGitscriss is really getting her 15 minutes of fame... Well deserved, it's a very good answer.
The whole project is retarded, of course. But then, Comfort and Cameron, what would you expect? |
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Illuminator
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 4,031
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I wonder what the copyright ramifications of rewriting Darwins book might be. Does anyone know if it is now public domain, or does someone still hold the rights
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Sarcastic Conqueror of Notions
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: A floating island above the clouds
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For those who don't click the link, they're talking about YouTuber ZOMGitsCriss, not Ariana. Buried deep in some backwater of Eastern Europe, this young genius has made a name for herself thanks to modern communications. Her channel is right next to Pat Condell's in my favs list. |
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Reid Fleming, World's Toughest Milkman, in A Day Like Any Other The government should nationalize it! Socialized, single-payer video game development and sales now! More, cheaper, better games, right? Right? |
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Orthogonal Vector
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Ossining NY
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Sufficiently advanced Woo is indistinguishable from Parody "There shall be no *poofing* in science" Paul C. Anagnostopoulos Force ***** on reasons back" Ben Franklin |
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Nor Flanden
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"You got to use your brain." - McKinley Morganfield "All blasphemies do not become great truths." - George Bernard Shaw |
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Appearance of intelligence
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Vancouver
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Kirk Cameron says that Ray Comfort found out it (Origin of Species) was in the public domain. I imagine he only had to hear that once before he accepted the truth of that statement.......
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Critical Thinker
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Somewhere on a wave in the North Atlantic
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Definitely in the public domain. Cornell has a very good chart for determining this (for US copyright in any case)
http://www.copyright.cornell.edu/res...blicdomain.cfm |
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Montréal
Posts: 19,186
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"Do not bear false witness against your neighbor"
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"It's much better to change your point of view in response to reality than to insist reality has got it wrong because it doesn't share your point of view." aggle-rithm "In reality, the most astonishingly incredible coincidence imaginable would be the complete absence of all coincidences." John Allen Paulos |
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Illuminator
Join Date: Aug 2007
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The Origin of Species is clearly public domain, in any of its original editions. Most publishers who print public domain books add an introduction which is copyrightable, so Comfort's book itself will not be public domain.
The King James version of the Bible is public domain, and anyone who wanted to print a copy with an introduction they wrote themselves would be free to do so. Many new translations and paraphrased versions of the Bible are not public domain, but that one would be safe. I've just read Comfort's introduction to Origin of the Species, and it's the usual laughable quote mining and repetition of arguments which have been bankrupt for years. He lists several evolutionary hoaxes, as though the science which discovered that they were hoaxes is inadequate for doing anything else. He repeats the "eye is an example of irreducible complexity" argument. He follows one quote from Darwin with a dozen quotes from Mein Kampf, seemingly oblivious to the fact that the Darwin quote is incompatible with the Hitler quotes. He stupidly cites Dawkins' speculation about a possible extraterrestrial ORIGIN OF LIFE ON EARTH as an example of Dawkins' theory on the ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE. He repeats the canard that no transitional species exist in the fossil record, without mentioning Tiktaalik. It wouldn't be difficult to provide a 50-page introduction to the Bible which would "refute" it a lot more soundly than this hack job will "refute" Darwin. |
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Jul 2004
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"You got to use your brain." - McKinley Morganfield "All blasphemies do not become great truths." - George Bernard Shaw |
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Dragon Killer
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Newbury, Berkshire
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Senno Ecto Gama ĝae haš dug zae ama kibid "Stupid humans" (Wollery) "Kill all humans" (Bender) "for while heaven may be closed I am always open, even on Christmas." (Lucifer) |
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Dragon Killer
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Senno Ecto Gama ĝae haš dug zae ama kibid "Stupid humans" (Wollery) "Kill all humans" (Bender) "for while heaven may be closed I am always open, even on Christmas." (Lucifer) |
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Philosopher
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: USA
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Kirk Cameron: now there's a transitional fossil.
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Vegan Cannibal
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Going off the rails on the Crazy Train.
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Dear God, can You please rapture Kirk Cameron sometime in the very near future?
kthnxbye! |
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Illuminator
Join Date: Jul 2006
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"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." (Mark Twain) |
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Illuminator
Join Date: Jul 2006
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"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." (Mark Twain) |
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Master Poster
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Chicago
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I'm on the next train to Romania. |
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Title Free
Join Date: Oct 2007
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That chick was hot. I could barely pay attention. I think I love her.
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Philosopher
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Silicon Valley-Stuck between Google and Apple
Posts: 7,800
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When you can't argue against facts, make up your own.
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"The method of science is tried and true. It is not perfect, it's just the best we have. And to abandon it with its skeptical protocols is the pathway to a dark age." -Carl Sagan "They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance."-Terry Pratchett |
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veretic
Join Date: Jun 2007
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Great Dalmuti
Join Date: Jul 2007
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Scholar
Join Date: Jan 2006
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Someone needs to get a copy and prepare an easy to print out a Dummies Guide to debunking all the silliness so that skeptic groups can hand them out at the same schools.
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Muse
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Right about... here.
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Ok, I"m just gonna pop in and see what all the fuss is about.
*homminahomminahommina* ![]() ![]() ![]() Why... yes. I do agree that she is attractive. |
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"So, they laugh at my boner, will they? I'll show them! I'll show them how many boners the Joker can make!" -- The Joker, Batman #66 |
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Muse
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Right about... here.
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I'm not clear on what's going on with the book. Are they just including the asinine introduction, or are they editing the text as well?
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"So, they laugh at my boner, will they? I'll show them! I'll show them how many boners the Joker can make!" -- The Joker, Batman #66 |
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New Blood
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: San Francisco, USA
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I really want a copy of this book. I'll keep it with my hard cover edition of OJ's "I Want to Tell You." And I notice that Amazon now sells Kim Jong Il's "On the Art of Cinema." (hint hint...)
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Illuminator
Join Date: Jun 2007
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I wonder if the 50 page intro mentions how the human hand is so perfectly shaped to fit the penis. Irreducible complexity.
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formerly skeptigirl
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: headed back to that dark dark house in the dark dark woods
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Sk'p' 'el(*Tired of continuing to hear the "Democrat Party" repeatedly I've decided to adopt the name, Republic Party, in response.) (**Tired of the current Republican talking point of naming everything after Pelosi, Reid &/or Obama, I've decided to start adding Republican names to their fault fiascos.) |
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Muse
Join Date: May 2007
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. - Carl Sagan |
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Critical Thinker
Join Date: Jul 2007
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“If God wanted us to believe in him, he’d exist.” ~ Linda Smith. Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad |
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Philosopher
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: USA
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The NeoCon Irving Kristol embraced ID back in the 90s, and...like Luther...was not above a "noble" lie to keep the masses in line: "There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths available to everyone is a modern democratic fallacy. It doesn't work." -- Irving Kristol What is amusing here, to me, is these bafoons trying to impose the lie on the highly educated... |
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Illuminator
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"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." (Mark Twain) |
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A post by Alan Smithee
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: USAian is not a word
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Anyone know if there's a page about this on the TO Archive yet? (or basically anywhere that isn't a blog or youtube vid)
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