Episode 25: Sixteen Points of Inanity
In the news this week: Piloting aircraft via the power of prayer; Diamond Rio: bad band name, worse lyrics; honor killing yourself to save your dad from jail; science > Texas and finally: we discuss the fact that the UK has lost its freaking mind. Not the Irish Posse, though. They are still sharp as a tack.
In our main segment we discuss two lists we found authored by two well known fundies, Glen Beck and Ray Comfort. The first one, Glen Beck and his “9 wankerisms” (this one sort of evolves into a political discussion–but hey, you get what you pay for.) Next we dissect Ray Comfort and his “82 Womitations,” which he is using to promote his new book “You Can Clap in Front of a Zombie’s Face, but you Can’t Make Him Blink” (or something like that.)
We seriously couldn’t make some of this stuff up.
But some of it, we could.
And did.
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Hi guys.
Thought you might be interested in this http://ncseweb.org/news/2009/04/setback-science-education-texas-004710 . It seems the decision by the Texas Education Board wasn’t a victory for science education after all. They fluffed it by substituting the phrase “all sides of scientific evidence” for “strengths and weaknesses”. There’s a really neat clip on youtube showing the head of the board summing up the evidence for evolution here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FID0E5T3I8&feature=related — funny/scary.
Love your podcasts, BTW
I saw this the day we posted the Podcast. It was incredibly disheartening and made me weep for the children of America. We wonder why we’re losing our edge in this country when science education is allowed to be muddled so?
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