I just found this amusing image
(http://skeptico.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/09/23/id_bingo_card_2.jpg)
From here:
http://skeptico.blogs.com/skeptico/2007/09/bingo-creationi.html (http://skeptico.blogs.com/skeptico/2007/09/bingo-creationi.html)
It may prove amusing, to those of you still battling any Creos out there.
I am very jazzed about this game!
Ummm, what does one call out when one wins?
Quote from: pieces o nine on April 13, 2008, 08:45:07 AM
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.
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. ;)
Quote from: Agujjim on April 14, 2008, 02:11:10 PM
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.
I don't know about the rest of you but the 2nd law of thermodynamics makes me hot.....