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		<title>Intelligent Falling and Holy Electrons</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 16:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Intelligent design. It&#8217;s a nice phrase that seems like it should be talking about architecture or computer programming. But it&#8217;s creationism reduced to picking up gap-scraps from biology and saying &#8220;aha! Therefore, god did it! And, of course, just being &#8230; <a href="http://jacksonskepticalsociety.com/2010/07/04/intelligent-falling-and-holy-electrons/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jacksonskepticalsociety.com&#038;blog=6821259&#038;post=710&#038;subd=jacksonskepticalsociety&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Intelligent design.  It&#8217;s a nice phrase that seems like it should be talking about architecture or computer programming.  But it&#8217;s creationism reduced to picking up gap-scraps from biology and saying &#8220;aha!  Therefore, god did it!</p>
<p>And, of course, just being wrong.  You can&#8217;t underestimate how often they do that in intelligent design.</p>
<p>If only someone had crafted a humorous metaphor, extended it, and turned it into a satirical news piece, then, why THEN I would be set.</p>
<p>Oh.  Right.  <a href="http://www.theonion.com/articles/evangelical-scientists-refute-gravity-with-new-int,1778/" />The Onion Did It.</a></p>
<p>My favorite bits:  &#8220;According to the&#8230; paper published simultaneously this week in the <em>International Journal Of Science</em> and the adolescent magazine <em>God&#8217;s Word For Teens!</em>, there are many phenomena that cannot be explained by secular gravity alone&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;&#8221;Closed-minded gravitists cannot find a way to make Einstein&#8217;s general relativity match up with the subatomic quantum world,&#8221; said Dr. Ellen Carson, a leading Intelligent Falling expert known for her work with the Kansan Youth Ministry. &#8220;They&#8217;ve been trying to do it for the better part of a century now, and despite all their empirical observation and carefully compiled data, they still don&#8217;t know how.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Traditional scientists admit that they cannot explain how gravitation is supposed to work,&#8221; Carson said. &#8220;What the gravity-agenda scientists need to realize is that &#8216;gravity waves&#8217; and &#8216;gravitons&#8217; are just secular words for &#8216;God can do whatever He wants.&#8217;&#8221;</p>
<p>And, for the close:</p>
<p>&#8220;&#8221;Anti-falling physicists have been theorizing for decades about the &#8216;electromagnetic force,&#8217; the &#8216;weak nuclear force,&#8217; the &#8216;strong nuclear force,&#8217; and so-called &#8216;force of gravity,&#8217;&#8221; Burdett said. &#8220;And they tilt their findings toward trying to unite them into one force. But readers of the Bible have already known for millennia what this one, unified force is: His name is Jesus.&#8221;</p>
<p>If Kansas keeps it up, we&#8217;ll be aswim in Jesus physics for milennia to come.  </p>
<p>But &#8220;it can&#8217;t possibly be that way in real life!&#8221;  You protest &#8211; obviously you&#8217;ve never read anything by an intelligent design author.</p>
<p>This may not be intelligent design, but I found it unimaginably hilarious.  Thanks <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/" />PZ.</a></p>
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		<title>The Onion, Again</title>
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		<title>If Only This Were True</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks once again, The Onion. Read it. Hilarious. If there was a religion where you were encouraged to believe in anything you made up, I&#8217;d go for it. Praise batman!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jacksonskepticalsociety.com&#038;blog=6821259&#038;post=496&#038;subd=jacksonskepticalsociety&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks once again, <a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/node/31006">The Onion.</a></p>
<p>Read it.  Hilarious.  If there <em>was</em> a religion where you were encouraged to believe in anything you made up, I&#8217;d go for it.</p>
<p>Praise batman!</p>
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