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Once again, Colbert gets it right

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Of course... if you quantify a deity you can then disprove it. Look at poor Thor... once we found out thunder was a natural occurance why we had no need of him. All we have left for gods these days are those gods who can't be pinned down. They have no real qualities and can't be identified so you can attribute anything you wish to them. Of course, as mankind learns more we slowly but surely eliminate the nooks and crannies these deities can hide in.

Quantify gods and you can eliminate them. Not good policy if you want to keep your churches open.
 
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Phred said:
Of course... if you quantify a deity you can then disprove it. Look at poor Thor... once we found out thunder was a natural occurance why we had no need of him.
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Thor is real. You need to get out of you P.O. only box and acknowledge that the past was different. Absurd speculations that the past was the same as the present are not science. In the past Lightening was not the result of electricity but of spriticity carried by spritons not electrons and was thrown by the mighty Thor. It released spiritons and a great spritual roar called thunder. Piece of cake really. Prove me wrong. You can't so I am right. You better quit living in your PO fishbowl because Ragnarok is coming soon.
 
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Stop it, or I'm gonna tell my dad on you:-(
 
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ApocryphaNow said:
The greatest irony of "scientific" creationism (had to tie that in somehow).
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I don't want to rain on the parade, but just as some in the reactionary media think people actually get their news from Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report (a Comstock lode* of comedic gold** IMO) is a delicious parody of Faux News after 8pm Eastern/7pm Central.

Thus I don't find someone erecting a straw man based on the looniest wing of the Creationist sub-culture being particularly prescient in his comments about Creationism or how a certain crank segment of the American population reacts to things like Tiktaalik or why H5N1 is a threat to humans.

I have a co-worker in his 60s who had some older female relative that thought there was no way the Apollo missions were sucessful. She wasn't one of the organized Moon Hoax claimaints like Bart Striebel, she was just some generic crank whose incredulity prevented her from accepting what her own eyes were telling her.

Anyway, as I'm watching this I'm watching Colbert interview Sherie Hite and I again iterate that a parody strawman isn't "getting it right" per se. It's hilarious for those of us in the know, but I don't think a parody is the same as responsive commentary to a position taken by cranks like science hating Creationists.

* Kudos to my fellow Americans who knew what the Comstock Lode was.

** Double kudos to those of you who read my analogy and thought, "wait a minute, the Comstock lode was silver, not gold."
 
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Eh. The comment wasn't even really about Creationism, it was about the Pope conducting a scientific and ethical study on the use of condoms to prevent AIDS. I merely co-opted Colbert's words because I thought they were an interesting and appropriate description of the efforts of some Creationists to discredit science, while at the same time trying to prove their theology using science.
 
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