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Religions > Atheism |
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"*nemo*" |
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04 Jan 2006 03:19:25 AM |
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aa - QOTM winners for Dec 2005 |
Here are the winners for the Quote of the Month contest for December
2005.
AQOTM: It's a long one, but it won in a 12-vote landslide.
Congratulations to Smurfette!:
9) Customer: Hello. I wish to complain about this so-called 'scientific
theory'
what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very establishment.
Salesman: Oh yes, 'Intelligent Design'. What, uh... what's wrong with it?
Customer: I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad. Its vacuous,
that's what's wrong with it!
Salesman: No, no, uh... what we need now is to 'teach the controversy'...
Customer: Look matey, I know an empty 'argument from incredulity' when I
see one, and I'm looking at one right now.
Salesman: No, no, it's not empty: it's just being elaborated. Remarkable
theory, 'Intelligent Design', innit, eh? I mean, just look at all these
books and articles: millions and millions of words...!
Customer: The verbiage don't enter into it, my lad. It's stone dead.
It's a non-starter. Empirically untestable, it belongs in metaphysics.
This 'theory' generates no predictions; has no contribution to make
beyond extended polemics; and can't even be honest about who it thinks
the 'Designer' was. Bereft of all logical and epistemological
credibility, it has no scientific status! If certain right-wing and
fundamentalist pressure-groups hadn't hit upon it as a way of attacking
decades of discomfiting scientific and social progress, it'd be pushing
up daisies! It's off the table. It's kicked the waste-paper bucket. THIS
IS A NON-THEORY!
Salesman: Well, I'd better replace it then. [takes a quick peek around]
Sorry, squire: looks like that's all we've got...
Customer: I see, I see. I get the picture.
Salesman: I've got a piece of coal that looks quite a bit like a human
tibia, if you squint at it...
Customer: Pray, is it part of a theory that unifies the paleontological
and biological sciences and leads to a powerful understanding of
observed homologies and the nested hierarchy of life?
Salesman: Not really.
Customer: WELL IT'S HARDLY A BLOODY REPLACEMENT FOR DARWINISM THEN, IS
IT?
By: Smurfette
Nominated: Carl Kaufmann
Seconded: John Baker
*******
TQOTM: Even more popular in the voting, with 15 votes, was this "dunric"
gem:
9) Pseudoscience has always bothered me. I am very scientific. That's
why I believe in the reality of God, NDEs, OBEs, Ghosts, EVP, Angels,
Astral Projection, Auras, UFOs, Demonic Possession and Miracles.
By:
Nominated: nemo
Seconded: Michelle Malkin
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As always, thanks to Mark Bilbo for taking his time to maintain the
alt.atheism archives, and the pages dedicated to this contest. Be sure
to visit this page to see other contest info and detailed records:
http://www.alt-atheism.org/library/quotes/qotm.php
Until next month - toodles!
--
Nemo - EAC Commissioner for Bible Belt Underwater Operations.
Atheist #1331 (the Palindrome of doom!)
BAAWA Knight! - One of those warm Southern Knights, y'all!
Charter member, SMASH!!
http://home.earthlink.net/~jehdjh/Relpg.html
Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus
Quotemeister since March 2002
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