7 replies on “Learning Day: Night at the Creation Museum”
Why do people who believe in intelligent design always look like factory seconds?
Damn, the Warhammer joke actually made me laugh out loud. I’m new to both hotdog and Patreon so I’m not sure how anything works here but if someone is collecting money or signatures or child sacrifices to get a full Dennard’s article about Warhammer I’m totally in.
Dennard is one of the newer contributors, but all his articles are fucking gold. Should definitely go peruse his other ones if you haven’t yet.
“Fall on the katana we know you own” is such a raw line!
I love Dennard’s obviously simmering cauldron of Warhammer lore just bubbling under the surface of so many articles. I’d be down for his review of the Horus Heresy if that wouldn’t take until the 41st millennium to get through lol.
There’s one thing you learn from reading and hearing Creationist propaganda:
NONE of it exists to change the minds of people who accept the scientific reality of evolution…
…and even if that was their intent, nothing they have to say is capable of accomplishing this.
No, the rhetoric of “Creation Science” exists to reassure people who already believe in biblical creationism that they’re right, to give them ammunition in debates with evolutionists by nitpicking the inconsistencies in current evolutionary theory, and to give them answers for their children when their faith inevitably conflicts with elementary school science.
They don’t need to waste their time proving creationism–they figure if you bought their book or video or entire freaking curriculum, you’re already on board with the essential theory.
That’s why things like the Creation Museum are hilariously absurd to you and me…
We aren’t the intended audience.
I highly suggest you seek out a documentary called “Exxpelled” hosted by Ben Stein (yes, THAT Ben Stein).
It was made largely as the Christian Right’s means of retaliation against Bill Maher’s documentary “Religiulous”, which skewered organized religion in general and Fundamentalist Christianity in particular.
It’s mostly about a few university professors who were fired for publishing papers and teaching courses rooted in biblical creationism (which is what happens when you are hired to teach science and you teach make-believe instead).
It’s especially noteworthy for rather explicitly connecting evolutionary theory with National Socialism and the Holocaust…
I’m not kidding 😔
Maybe the producers thought that hiring a Jew to host would make this okay…but it makes it so much worse.
1-900-HOTDOG
Unlock with Patreon
7 replies on “Learning Day: Night at the Creation Museum”
Why do people who believe in intelligent design always look like factory seconds?
Damn, the Warhammer joke actually made me laugh out loud. I’m new to both hotdog and Patreon so I’m not sure how anything works here but if someone is collecting money or signatures or child sacrifices to get a full Dennard’s article about Warhammer I’m totally in.
Dennard is one of the newer contributors, but all his articles are fucking gold. Should definitely go peruse his other ones if you haven’t yet.
“Fall on the katana we know you own” is such a raw line!
I love Dennard’s obviously simmering cauldron of Warhammer lore just bubbling under the surface of so many articles. I’d be down for his review of the Horus Heresy if that wouldn’t take until the 41st millennium to get through lol.
There’s one thing you learn from reading and hearing Creationist propaganda:
NONE of it exists to change the minds of people who accept the scientific reality of evolution…
…and even if that was their intent, nothing they have to say is capable of accomplishing this.
No, the rhetoric of “Creation Science” exists to reassure people who already believe in biblical creationism that they’re right, to give them ammunition in debates with evolutionists by nitpicking the inconsistencies in current evolutionary theory, and to give them answers for their children when their faith inevitably conflicts with elementary school science.
They don’t need to waste their time proving creationism–they figure if you bought their book or video or entire freaking curriculum, you’re already on board with the essential theory.
That’s why things like the Creation Museum are hilariously absurd to you and me…
We aren’t the intended audience.
I highly suggest you seek out a documentary called “Exxpelled” hosted by Ben Stein (yes, THAT Ben Stein).
It was made largely as the Christian Right’s means of retaliation against Bill Maher’s documentary “Religiulous”, which skewered organized religion in general and Fundamentalist Christianity in particular.
It’s mostly about a few university professors who were fired for publishing papers and teaching courses rooted in biblical creationism (which is what happens when you are hired to teach science and you teach make-believe instead).
It’s especially noteworthy for rather explicitly connecting evolutionary theory with National Socialism and the Holocaust…
I’m not kidding 😔
Maybe the producers thought that hiring a Jew to host would make this okay…but it makes it so much worse.