Saturday Morning Cartoons
This one is from Pharyngula. PZ Myers thinks this guy is nuts. I think he's just trying to be funny.

Strolling with a skeptical biochemist

Posted by
Laurence A. Moran
at
9:18 AM
Labels: Rationalism v Superstition
The old argument of design in nature, as given by Paley, which formerly
seemed to me to be so conclusive, fails, now that the law of natural selection has been discovered. We can no longer argue that, for instance, the beautiful hinge of a bivalve shell must have been made by an intelligent being, like the hinge of a door by man. There seems to be no more design in the variability of organic beings and in the action of natural selection, than in the course which the wind blows.
The world is not inhabited exclusively by fools, and when a subject arouses intense interest, as this one has, something other than semantics is usually at stake.
Stephen Jay Gould (1982)I have championed contingency, and will continue to do so, because its large realm and legitimate claims have been so poorly attended by evolutionary scientists who cannot discern the beat of this different drummer while their brains and ears remain tuned to only the sounds of general theory.
Stephen Jay Gould (2002) p.1339The essence of Darwinism lies in its claim that natural selection creates the fit. Variation is ubiquitous and random in direction. It supplies raw material only. Natural selection directs the course of evolutionary change.
Stephen Jay Gould (1977)Rudyard Kipling asked how the leopard got its spots, the rhino its wrinkled skin. He called his answers "just-so stories." When evolutionists try to explain form and behavior, they also tell just-so stories—and the agent is natural selection. Virtuosity in invention replaces testability as the criterion for acceptance.
Stephen Jay Gould (1980)Since 'change of gene frequencies in populations' is the 'official' definition of evolution, randomness has transgressed Darwin's border and asserted itself as an agent of evolutionary change.
Stephen Jay Gould (1983) p.335The first commandment for all versions of NOMA might be summarized by stating: "Thou shalt not mix the magisteria by claiming that God directly ordains important events in the history of nature by special interference knowable only through revelation and not accessible to science." In common parlance, we refer to such special interference as "miracle"—operationally defined as a unique and temporary suspension of natural law to reorder the facts of nature by divine fiat.
Stephen Jay Gould (1999) p.84
Actually, I think he's mostly right. Not about his faith, but about about the garden-variety pz-style atheists.
ReplyDeleteI vote for nuts.
ReplyDeleteSay Lar,
ReplyDeleteWhy don’t you try something different this time and instead of going for the obligatory callow sneering, how ‘bout you and your like-minded, "free-thinking," buds actually make an intellectual challenge to his assertion that you’re already living under a “dictatorship of relativism?”
I'm also curious to here a rebuttal to the assertion that the reason you hate others so much is because of your own self-hatred...
I agree that the guy is funny.
ReplyDeleteI am not at all convinced that he is trying to be funny. If I tune into Christian Radio, I find many saying similar thing. Am I supposed to assume that Christian Radio is really a humor network, and they are trying to be funny?
Viewing PZ's site (and often this site) is like viewing porn sites. You're drawn to them and fascinated by them and you become addicted to them, but you know they're not going do anything good for you. In the long run, they're a time-waster, negative, and bad for you.
ReplyDeleteHe is apparently not kidding. He decided to do this type of Catholic crazy apologia after either reading or watching "The Da Vinci Code". Bad plots make bad papists.
ReplyDeleteI wish he were just trying to be funny. Unfortunately, Voris is perfectly representative of an ultramontane streak running through the Catholic Church that eagerly seeks persecution and a divine rescue via Christ's second coming. He's deadly serious. Nuts, too.
ReplyDelete"course language" ...and we're vocabularily challenged?
ReplyDeletewhat exactly is he doing with that pencil? He seems to hold it all the time... It has special theological powers maybe...
ReplyDeleteVoris is telling the truth.
ReplyDeleteHe's perfectly serious -- and a total loon. He has made too many videos for this to be just a spoof.
ReplyDeleteVoris is most likely crazy, and I doubt that he, or our troll jcc here could even define "dictatorship of relativism".
ReplyDeleteClowns like Voris do not require any response other than ridicule and sneering.
I read Sandwalk every day, and I very much appreciate your thoughts, Larry, even (maybe especially) on those occasions when I don't necessarily agree with you.
Keep on "keepin' on" . . . . . .
"Voris is telling the truth."
ReplyDeleteOne of the Clown Prince Voris' ideas is the return of the idea of a "Catholic Monarchy".
That was tried before. It was called "The Dark Ages."
They really, really hate it when you laugh at them.
ReplyDeleteHey jcc, who is this Lar guy you keep talking to ?
ReplyDeleteIsn't one invisible friend enough ?
Kinda hard to get "joking" from an org that can seriously spout this kind of dreck:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYCsrhJPIfY
(Apparently one of the videos they've taken off their channel
steve oberski
ReplyDeleteHey jcc, who is this Lar guy you keep talking to ?
Uh, Larry Moran…you know, the kindest, most open-minded and tolerant, wizard of smart who runs this outfit?
Isn't one invisible friend enough ?
Why yes. Have you always been so keenly observant?