Yes.

May. 17th, 2005 07:24 am
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Date: 2005-05-17 04:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hitchkitty.livejournal.com
An "experiment" in Intelligent Design:

Empty a bag of Scrabble tiles into a large mixing bowl. Set that bowl atop a ladder in San Francisco. Wait for an earthquake.

The resulting spilled jumble of letters will form at least one word. The odds of that particular word being formed in that position in that jumble are astrolonomically low. Chance and physics are insufficient to explain such a coincidence. Some Intelligent Agent must be responsible.

Date: 2005-05-17 06:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] soreth.livejournal.com
I dunno, I think getting "A" or "I" is pretty much guaranteed. ;)

Date: 2005-05-17 07:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hitchkitty.livejournal.com
Ah, but did THAT specific tile have to come up in THAT particular location? No?

Intelligent Design at work!

Date: 2005-05-17 07:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] soreth.livejournal.com
*snrrk* What if I said "Yes, yes it had to come up in that particular location at that particular time and was an inevitable consequence of the Big Bang"? All it takes is a little belief in hard determinism. :)

Date: 2005-05-17 07:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nicodemusrat.livejournal.com
That's beautiful! Brilliant comic. Thanks for sharing it!

Validation, at last!

Date: 2005-05-18 12:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kreggan.livejournal.com
Haha! Now that Kansas has rightfully decreed that science isn't about naturalistic explainations, I can finally promote the Theory of Last Tuesdayism as Real Science! In which, of course, the universe was created by a supernatural force or forces last Tuesday, and we only think that we existed before then.

Can anyone give me the phone number of the Kansas board of education? I'd hate to see this theory treated any differently than other non-naturalistic Evolution-alternative theories...

Date: 2005-05-18 05:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] archteryx.livejournal.com
There was another great comic from not long ago: "Next up, the privatization of science!"

The trouble is that scientists concentrate on being scientists, and many, though they are pretty good politicians within their fields, are very poor at this new game of lead-the-dumbass-sheeple-by-the-nose demagogery. The Rethuglicans are superb at playing that game, and they've set it up so no matter what scientists do directly, they lose. Show up to the fake debates? Get creamed by the demagogues and humiliated before all their followers, losing massive face. Not show up? Get called cowards, have the demagogues declare victory, and the scientists lose massive face.

I've long thought about what solutions there are and come up with precious few, except having scientists run for political office just to smack them down on an even playing field. And most of us have no interest in doing that.

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