"In the world which is upside down, the true is a moment of the false."
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Tuesday, September 16, 2003 two late night observations on some folks currently among us who are obviously in-fucking-sane. first, from chris over at mildly suicidal, a look at a creation "science" fair. first place in the elementary school division goes to a young miss cassidy turnbull (no names have been changed) who gives us this bit of wisdom, "My Uncle Is A Man Named Steve (Not A Monkey)" second place in the same division goes to messrs David Block and Trevor Murry for their project, "Pine Cones Are Complicated" which tells us all about: ..how specifically complicated pine cones are and how they reveal God's design in nature. second place in the middle school division goes to mr. Jonathan Goode for his entry, "Women Were Designed For Homemaking" which postulates thus: applied findings from many fields of science to support his conclusion that God designed women for homemaking: physics shows that women have a lower center of gravity than men, making them more suited to carrying groceries and laundry baskets; biology shows that women were designed to carry un-born babies in their wombs and to feed born babies milk, making them the natural choice for child rearing; social sciences show that the wages for women workers are lower than for normal workers, meaning that they are unable to work as well and thus earn equal pay; and exegetics shows that God created Eve as a companion for Adam, not as a co-worker. wow. first place in the high school division went to Eileen Hyde and Lynda Morgan for their bizarre excercise titled, "Using Prayer To Microevolve Latent Antibiotic Resistance In Bacteria" . some high points: Escherichia coli bacteria cultured in agar filled petri dishes were subjected to the antibiotics tetracycline and chlorotetracycline. The bacteria cultures were divided into two groups, one group (A) received prayer while the other (B) didn't. The prayer was as follows: "Dear Lord, please allow the bacteria in Group A to unlock the antibiotic-resistant genes that You saw fit to give them at the time of Creation. Amen." The process was repeated for five generations, with the prayer being given at the start of each generation. In the end, Group A was significantly more resistant than Group B to both antibiotics. amazing really. an honorable mention in the high school division goes to a mr. Tom Williamson for this gem: "Thermodynamics Of Hell Fire" . actually, i would love to read this piece just so i could gain some sort of appreciation for the eternal agony that my earthly actions are no doubt preparing for me. breathtaking... i also ran across in this piece in the nation. the article seems to illuminate some of the points that i have tried to make light of in previous posts. i think they key graf is the very last one: Left Behind also highlights something important about the way mass culture works. Rather than creating a homogenized McWorld, as so many critics have claimed, popular culture can and does reinforce ideological and cultural divisions, fostering sharp distinctions between communities. The evangelical population in the United States is becoming more numerous, more politicized--particularly around foreign policy--and more powerful than ever before. This transformation is as much cultural as political, or rather, it is inextricably both at once. Those of us who care deeply about the future of politics, domestic and international, cannot afford to ignore the fact that evangelicals are no longer merely a subculture. They are fast becoming a--perhaps the--dominant force in American life. As the Middle East smolders, many people have debated the role of George W. Bush's Christian beliefs in his foreign policy, and we are daily confronted with the lobbying muscle of the Christian right. But if we want to understand conservative Christians as a political force, we must pay attention to the galvanizing power of culture. The astonishing success of the Left Behind series suggests that the conservative obsession with biblical prophecy is increasingly shaping our secular reality. I wish we'd all been ready. (emphasis mine) voodoo is voodoo is voodoo. these people frighten the fucking hell out of me. man or astroman?: "escape velocity" " diameter 4.9 miles, mass over six thousand megatons and speed of over seventeen hundred and fifty miles per second... ... and destination earth! " posted by downtown | 4:33 AM |
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