do you know they are born with wheels?
Did you know that creationists have their own version of Wikipedia?
Read the article on kangaroos. “Baramins” are the happy clappers’ answer to the evolution.
This is a completely derivative snatch from Crooked Timber, but I couldn’t resist celebrating that version of our favourite marsupial. Good comments there too, which had me disturbing the dog with laughter.
And this description of a faith-based action game about the Rapture, and its grisly financial fate, is a wonderful piece of poetic justice. (From the comments to the above).
Jesus wants you for a sunbeam.
April 3rd, 2007 at 11:08 am
I love the idea of baramin, it is so simple, a sort of bricoluer “science”. Noah’s Ark must have been pretty big, and the kangas such good swimmers to get there in time, even Thorpey’s envious.
April 4th, 2007 at 9:16 am
Actually, I’m confused. Their description of baramin says “wolves, coyotes, domesticated dogs and other canids are all descended from two individuals taken aboard the Ark”. And here I thought these people didn’t believe in evolution, and they’re flat-out stating that a wolf and a chihuahua have a common ancestor…
April 4th, 2007 at 8:45 pm
I like how radioactive dating placing the age of the earth at ~4.5 billion years is now just a “philosophical argument”. So is the buoyancy of Noah’s ark!
“the term Creationism is simply a false atheistic, Evolutionist perception, or pejorative assertion that believing in a God means that all science and intellectual thinking has to be left behind”
Yep, pretty much!
April 5th, 2007 at 11:51 am
I liked this bit:
‘The idea that God simply generated kangaroos into existence there is considered by most creation researchers to be contra-Biblical.’
I’d say it was the moment when my eyes actually started rolling wildly around in my head, but the word ‘baraminologist’ had already done that for me.
April 8th, 2007 at 9:44 am
Dig it, in 1990 Wise resurrects the doo-dah apoholomonopolybaraminic ya-ya, and passes out small gold shovels with white handles. Commence digging!
Charles Addams’ unicorns watching Noah’s great brown hulk sail away into Survival through exquisite tears, while standing just above the rising waters.
Vapor trails across the sky from dawn to dusk of mammalian life.
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But fair’s fair, you need to address this as well:
“Other views on kangaroo origins include the belief of some Australian aborigines that kangaroos were sung into existence by their ancestors during the “Dreamtime”"
April 8th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
Now that is an interesting conundrum, which makes bits of my brain heat up.
Creation myths are gorgeous pomes etc etc etc – “it’s turtles all the way down” is still one of my favourite lines.
Occasionally I see an interview with an Aborigine from a traditional(ish) cultural background managing to integrate Christianity and the Dreaming, which is a nifty exercise. For a person in that mind space, being a biologist would be a hard ask. It would require creating separate compartments in the mind and keeping them a long way apart.
But then, to me, being a biologist and a devout Christian would require the same. Fitting anthropology and faith together would be even harder.
Really different dimensions of reality which I tend to plane down into the one contiguous space, on the grounds that the science is the gateway to wonder.