Creationist Bingo

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

I just found this amusing image



From here:
http://skeptico.blogs.com/skeptico/2007/09/bingo-creationi.html

It may prove amusing, to those of you still battling any Creos out there.

[pieces o nine]

I am very jazzed about this game!
Ummm, what does one call out when one wins?

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

I am very jazzed about this game!
Ummm, what does one call out when one wins?

I would assume "BINGO!" would be appropriate.

I seem to recall a bunch of student-types attending a lecture by a creationist, and were playing this game in the audience.

They obviously had slightly different cards, of course.

Every time the speaker filled in a line, one of these would say softly "Bingo!"..... proved to be quite disrupting, which was the point, as I recall the story.

[Aggie]

Is that top-centre square a jab at Drexlerian nanomachines? I didn't know the Creationist crowds got on about that; it's about their same level of pseudo-science, though.

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Is that top-centre square a jab at Drexlerian nanomachines? I didn't know the Creationist crowds got on about that; it's about their same level of pseudo-science, though.

Some do.  There's a video from Harvard about the machinery of the cell.  It loosely compares it to a city.

But, the creationists glommed on that right away, and completely missed the point of the video.

They cry that these pieces could not have formed gradually-- therefore there MUST be a designer.  Ipso facto.

Of course, they refuse to allow that a simpler version of a complex cell mechanism may have a different use, when it was simpler.  They totally ignore how that in nature, biological bits often get re-used as something else entirely.

[anthrobabe]

I don't know about the rest of you but the 2nd law of thermodynamics makes me hot.....