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trogdor
Skeptic Friend
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 Posted - 03/07/2006 : 17:46:12
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in the latest of "Kils Evil Picks" he showed this gem of the world wide web: creation science fair
with prize winners such as:
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Elementary School Level
1st Place: "My Uncle Is A Man Named Steve (Not A Monkey)"
2nd Place: "Pine Cones Are Complicated"
Honorable Mention:
"God Made Kitty" - Sally Reister (grade 3)
"The Bible Says Creation" - Aaron Kent (grade 5)
"Pokemon Prove Evolutionism Is False" - Paul Sanborn (grade 4)
middle school:
1st Place: "Life Doesn't Come From Non-Life"
2nd Place: "Women Were Designed For Homemaking"
Honorable Mention:
"Mousetrap Reduced To Pile Of Functionless Parts" - Kevin Parker (grade 7)
"Dinosaur & Man Walked Together" - Donny Findlay (grade 6)
"Rocks Can't Evolve, Where Did They Come From Mr. Darwin?" - Anna Reed (grade 6)
High School
1st Place: "Using Prayer To Microevolve Latent Antibiotic Resistance In Bacteria"
2nd Place: "Maximal Packing Of Rodentia Kinds: A Feasibility Study"
Honorable Mention:
"Geocentrism: Politically Incorrect" - Richard Cody (grade 9)
"Young Earth, Old Lies" - Melvin Knuth & Glenna Reher (grade 11)
"Thermodynamics Of Hell Fire" - Tom Williamson (grade 12)
I wish I could have been there.
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JohnOAS
SFN Regular
Australia
800 Posts |
Posted - 03/07/2006 : 18:00:34 [Permalink]
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Damn that's good. Thanks Kil/trogdor.
Some extra juicy excerpts:
"a project showing how the power of prayer can unlock the latent genes in bacteria, allowing them to microevolve antibiotic resistance."
"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" |
John's just this guy, you know. |
| Edited by - JohnOAS on 03/07/2006 18:01:01 |
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
1990 Posts |
Posted - 03/07/2006 : 18:52:33 [Permalink]
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Fun to see once again. Nice satire, being an off-shoot of the Landover site.
Fun-n-n-n-y!.......
1st Place: "Life Doesn't Come From Non-Life"
Patricia Lewis (grade 8) did an experiment to see if life can evolve from non-life. Patricia placed all the non-living ingredients of life - carbon (a charcoal briquet), purified water, and assorted minerals (a multi-vitamin) - into a sealed glass jar. The jar was left undisturbed, being exposed only to sunlight, for three weeks. (Patricia also prayed to God not to do anything miraculous during the course of the experiment, so as not to disqualify the findings.) No life evolved. This shows that life cannot come from non-life through natural processes.
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"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
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marfknox
SFN Die Hard
USA
3739 Posts |
Posted - 03/08/2006 : 00:03:31 [Permalink]
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| I'm confused... Objectivist Ministries is a fake Christian site, but is the creationist fair real or part of their joke? |
"Too much certainty and clarity could lead to cruel intolerance" -Karen Armstrong
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Ghost_Skeptic
SFN Regular
Canada
510 Posts |
Posted - 03/08/2006 : 01:29:49 [Permalink]
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I smell satire. The science fair projects are a little bit too dumb to be real.
Would setting up a site like this and soliciting donations from cretinists be considerd fruad?
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"You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. / You can send a kid to college but you can't make him think." - B.B. King
History is made by stupid people - The Arrogant Worms
"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism." - William Osler
"Religion is the natural home of the psychopath" - Pat Condell
"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter" - Thomas Jefferson |
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
3834 Posts |
Posted - 03/08/2006 : 02:25:44 [Permalink]
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Child abuse! Those poor kids. Unless it's a Landover Baptist web page or something. It looks real.
OK, nevermind. If you all say it's fake, I'll assume it is. It's pretty funny in that case.
So this page is a joke as well? Man they are great spoofers. |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 03/08/2006 : 03:32:24 [Permalink]
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It's a spoof, and a pretty clever one. This site has been up for a number of years, first started, if I have the story straight, as an anti-Landover site, by, you guessed it, the guys at Landover. 
quote:
OBJECTIVE: Landover Baptist Shutdown
By Jim Carlson and OBJECTIVE: Ministries staff
Our Purpose:
The Internet was created by the United States of America - a Christian nation [ref. 1, 2, 3] - and should not be used to spread anti-Christian, secular, or non-Christian propaganda and hatespeech. This is our Internet, and we should exercise our position as its owners and as the guardians of civilization to stop its misuse.
“It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists but by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ.”
- Patrick Henry, American Patriot“Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord [i.e. Jesus Christ] one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth In Witness whereof We have hereunto subscribed our Names...” - Article VII, US Constitution
For this reason, this website was created to try and stop one of the more vile and dangerous misuses of the Internet: using it to mock Our Lord Jesus Christ, His teachings, and His followers. And one site in particular stands out in need of stoppage: Landover Baptist.
I seem to recall that we discussed this one some years back...
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"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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