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Creationists need to be exterminated. We can start with Ben Stein.

I am sick of their shit they spew in the name of whatever made up enity they are worshipping this week.

Posted by Andrew | March 11, 2008 10:57 AM
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I agree with Moore that the PBS documentary on thd Pennsylvania lawsuit should be must-viewing, not just for educators, but for everyone. The science is so settled that no credible person could argue otherwise.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty | March 11, 2008 11:02 AM
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Ben Stein is an interesting case. The guy is pretty far off is nut, but he's managed to convince everyone to give him credit for being reasonable.

Posted by elenchos | March 11, 2008 11:05 AM
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totally agree, elenchos. He's always given off an air of self-righteous, cold rationalism a la Ayn Rand. It seems really odd that he'd be a proponent of something so blatantly anti-rational.

Posted by dbell | March 11, 2008 11:16 AM
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I still think we need to bring back the draft for creationists and their cowardly brethren the "Intelligent Designers".

That way they can help improve the species ... by dying off.

Posted by Will in Seattle | March 11, 2008 11:18 AM
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Roger Moore isn't as good of a film critic as Sean Connery.

Posted by Big Sven | March 11, 2008 11:25 AM
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Big Sven ftw.

Posted by amazonmidwife | March 11, 2008 12:28 PM
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So is his name Roger or Robert?

Posted by Natalie | March 11, 2008 1:27 PM
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Check out: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/08/im_gonna_be_a_movie_star.php

It's a post about a biologist being tricked into being interviewed for this movie. Dang!

Posted by Rita | March 11, 2008 1:43 PM
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My new favorite hobby is coming up with scientific things that Creationists should not be able to use. For example, if you are a young earth creationist and do not believe in carbon-dating, you should not be able to use radiation therapy when you have cancer, since some of the same scientific principles are involved in both.

I think Golob should do a Dear Science on it.

Posted by Julie | March 11, 2008 2:47 PM
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Julie @10, I've been thinking the same thing since 9/11. The first folks to make me think of this were the Taliban types.

No MRI machine! No CT scan!
No 747 jumbo jet travel for you!

Same goes for the I.D. folks, who sometimes are American Taliban.

Travel the world slowly by galleon or dhow. Go ask your reverend about that strange lump.

As for Ben Stein, I wonder if he really believes this stuff, or if he's just looking to add to Ben Stein's money.

Posted by CP | March 11, 2008 5:54 PM
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Sorry, typo. It's Roger.

Posted by annie | March 11, 2008 6:52 PM

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