If you haven’t seen The God Who Wasn’t There yet, you should. The DVD just arrived on my doorstep over Thanksgiving.
As the title implies, it’s a documentary that explores the notion that Jesus Christ never existed, and that religion — particularly extremist Christianity — is doing this country and the world more harm than good.
(Spoilers ahead.)
The central tenet of Intelligent Design is usually stated as “certain features of living organisms are too complex to be the result of natural processes, therefore they were designed.”
But as Michael Behe explained at length on the stand in the Dover Panda Trial, what he objects to (at least, when he’s on the stand) is the notion that these features could have been formed by natural selection. He also made it clear that as far as he’s concerned, the designer is God.
So really, the central tenet of ID should be restated as, “certain features of living organisms are too complex to be the result of natural selection, therefore they are the result of a powerful, intelligent, probably supernatural, entity.”
Here’s an idea: let’s give everyone a gun on their thirteenth birthday. After all, if we don’t exercise our second amendment rights, we’ll lose them, right?
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This past weekend, Pleasant Valley Baptist Church hosted , of which I attended the first session.
Here’s the email message I sent to Harold Phillips, the church’s senior pastor:
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Kent Hovind was in Maryland for the first (and probably last) time in years. I’ve heard his spiel, of course, but I’d never seen his show live, so naturally I had to go.
Ed at Dispatches from the Culture Wars has an article ponting out how Behe’s one and only published research article on ID shows that IC isn’t all that improbable at all.
I read that testimony, but somehow never connected the dots as Ed did.
I just ran across a weblog article that complains about the media confusing creationists and intelligent design advocates, so I thought I’d present a handy-dandy chart to clear up any confusion:
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Michael Behe has written a weblog entry about his experience testifying at the Dover Panda trial, and I just have to ask: what’s the weather like in Bizarro World?
The cross examination was fun too, and showed that the other side really does have only rhetoric and bluster.
The Discovery Institute, the think tank behind Intelligent Design, has a piece on their weblog in which they try to disassociate themselves from the creationist clusterfuck that the Dover Panda Trial has become.
The Dover Panda Trial is expected to end tomorrow. So it’s about time for some barely-informed speculation about what presents Hizzoner Judge Jones will bring the good girls and boys (aren’t you glad I didn’t say anything about jonesin’ for a decision?).