Comments on: Pastafarianism

By: sarah

sarah — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:00:30 +0000

beautiful. according to the bible (which we all know is absolutely 100% every word correct)jesus is the son of god, god created man in his own image, which, by theory of evolution, who knows what the hell that was. it is entirely possible for our beloved flying spaghetti monter to have birthed our saviour!t makes as much sense as anything else in the all-knowing bible.

By: Clifford

Clifford — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 01:44:22 +0000

Good Lord…wireless at busstops…whatever will they think of next?!

-cvj

By: erc

erc — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 00:23:53 +0000

…wireless…obviously…sorry…

By: erc

erc — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 00:22:50 +0000

Thanks Rob! Cheered up my wait for the bus! (Don’t you just love woreless?)

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 22:37:48 +0000

you to can help convert more people to the pastafarians by clicking on this link

http://www.gophergas.com/funstuff/flyingspaghettimonster.htm

By: Jill

Jill — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 00:28:41 +0000

I could not help being struck by this line from

http://www.nwcreation.net/cosmology.html

namely

“challenging the hypotheticals” [of the Big Bang theory]. Am I alone in being reminded of … W ?
You know, Mark’s W, ratio of pressure to density, ahem…good name for a blog by the way….

By: cecilia

cecilia — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:43:29 +0000

Sean’s alma mater will be hosting a pro-evolution lecture next month. No debate, just an explaination of how it works.
PS his alma mater is Villanova, which has a darn good astronomy department.

By: Clifford

Clifford — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:29:30 +0000

Yes. One is science, the other is not.

-cvj

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:24:59 +0000

I missed this editorial from my local paper this past Saturday and became aware of it only because today, the paper felt obliged to print four responses from ID adherents:

http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=91257&ran=98338

It is not necessary to print the responses here because they parrot the strict ID line about science’s supposed inability to prove its theories. What these people seem to miss is that while scientific theories have accurately predicted certain facts later discovered, science accepts that it does not currently have all of the answers to the beginnings of the universe and life. ID, on the other hand, presupposes its most important fact, the nature of origin.

By: John G

John G — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 07:08:47 +0000

Tony Smith and John Fudjack are two people who handle both spirituality and physics well unlike Creationism and ID.

Here’s a little from Smith (whose physics model is similar to Lee Smolin’s bosonic string-like M-theory):
http://www.valdostamuseum.org/hamsmith/ArchMandMus.html

Here’s John Fudjack interviewing Brian Greene:
http://tap3x.net/EMBTI/j6greene.html

My website, which coincidently uses the 6 days of creation as a metaphor, has more links to Smith and Fudjack (and my two papers in Fudjack’s journal).

Thanks, John

By: Moshe Rozali

Moshe Rozali — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 02:56:19 +0000

In my youth I was exposed to the idea that the initial six days were just very long days…those were peaceful times.

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 02:54:23 +0000

Fossils are there to test our faith. Just so’s you know.
I’d advise that you read a copy of Watchtower sometime, but that’s a mean trick to play on anyone.

By: Moshe Rozali

Moshe Rozali — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 02:50:05 +0000

I see, but for that they’ll have to refute a lot of science, starting with geophysics…

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 02:46:10 +0000

Rumour has it that the Big Bang all happened a rather long time ago. More than 6 days before we were Created, even.

Big Bang is more your Creation moment for less literal christians than we’re discussing here.

By: Moshe Rozali

Moshe Rozali — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 02:43:29 +0000

I’m puzzled- why is steady state better for religious ideas than the big bang? the initial singulairty seems like as good a place as any to insert god.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 02:13:12 +0000

Yes Lee, you’re right. They’ve been gearing up for this one for a while.

By: Clifford

Clifford — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 02:00:14 +0000

Lee: Those last two links are scary !

-cvj

By: Lee Smolin

Lee Smolin — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 01:34:10 +0000

On the subject, the NY Tiimes also published an oped demolishing ID by the philosopher Daniel Dennett, available also at http://www.edge.org at
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/dennett05/dennett05_index.html

and by the way, we better get ready, because astronomy and cosmology are next, see:

http://www.nwcreation.net/cosmology.html

and

http://www.2think.org/berlinski.shtml

and no, these are not jokes.

By: Eugene

Eugene — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 01:29:34 +0000

Ah, His Noodlyness has arrived in Cosmicvariance.com!

I appreciate the humour and is gratified that it is receiving a lot of press recently. What I really wish though, is the emergence of a prominent someone from the scientific community which can command the attention of the media in such a way that politicians will find it impossible to ignore him/her. And that this someone will lead a counter PR offensive that will not only bury the whole ID silliness for good, but use this sudden media spotlight on scientists and crackpots to educate the public on what science really is (and isn’t).

I guess I wish for old Huxley to come back from the grave.

By: Clifford

Clifford — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 00:53:46 +0000

Not coincidence…. some sort of intelligent design… perhaps?

-cvj