Templeton prize goes to cloning group

This years Templeton prize has gone to the controversial cloning team who recently produced the notorious Kirk Douglas-Kenneth Williams hybrid.


It is not currently known if they plan to carry on.

Bohemian Rosenau

Is this stuff real science?
Or is it theology?
Obsessed with Coynes site,
God help the NCSE,
My heros are guys, like Ruse, Stangroom and Mooney,
I'm just a poor boy, dropped out of my PhD,
I took the easy route, cynicism, chose accomodationism,
Evidence or logic doesn't really matter to me,
or Wally...

Ha-ha! I just flamed the gnus,
"Like the Tea-Party!", I said, that'll teach those poopy heads,
Religion, what's wrong with some?
Left up to gnus, they'd throw it all away
Jerry, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, really hope I made him sigh,
Faith and Science work fine, ask Francis Collins,
Epistemology, why? Guess it doesn't really matter

Gnu hate, it's time for some,
But Jerry's laughing at my lines, calls them faitheistic whines,
That's it, no more nice guy, I'll make him pay,
Gotta call him on his wrong theology,
Dammit, those gnu-ooh-ooh-oohs, said it's fairy tales and lies.
I sometimes wish I'd never even blogged at all.

-Guitar solo-

I want a little fellowship or just a grant,
Templeton! Templeton! Can't you see I'm your best fanboy!
Coyne and Benson's writing, it's very, very frightening to me!
and (Pigliucci) Pigliucci (Pigliucci) Pigliucci, Pigliucci Massimo!
Yes Massimo-oh-oh,
He's a Professor, knows his philosophy
We know, 'cause he tells us at every opportunity,
Spare us, we beg, from his pomposity
Really Josh, you're in a hole, you should let it go
Joshua! No! He will not let it go
(Let it go!) Joshua! He will not let it go
(Let it go!) Joshua! He will not let it go
(Let it go) Will not let it go
(Let it go) Will not let it go (Let it go) Ah
No, no, no, no, no, No, No!
Mama mia, digging deeper, can't be clearer, let it go
Josh Rosenau, put that shovel to the side, and keep, some dig--niteeEEEEEE!!

Guitar Riff

So you think Jason pwned me for the fifteenth time
Jerry, PZ and Larry, they're forming a line,
Ophelia, not you too, think I'll squeal, yeah!,
Just gonna go pout, just gonna go pout, scowl and sneer!

Religion really matters, Anyone can see,
Religion really matters,
It's needed to promote morality,
Anyway where's Pastor Jones?

More Stockholm blasphemy

Valentines Day - What to give to your fundamentalist Christian lover?

Probably not this!

Spotted for sale in PUB department store Drottninggatan, Stockholm, Sweden.

Not very Nicean Creed

We believe in a single deity who, defying the laws of thermodynamics, has made everything in the Universe. The deity consists of a three member committee, one of whom is called ‘The Father’.
We believe in Jesus Christ, another member of the God Committee, who appeared on Earth by means of a virgin surrogate mother named Mary who gave birth to a baby that happens to be the deity in human form.
Jesus was sentenced to death by the Roman regional official Pontius Pilate and was crucified, killed and buried.
Two days later his dead body came back to life as was predicted in a very loose and ambiguous sense somewhere in the bible.
He then flew up into the air to a place called heaven where he now sits as the right hand member of the three member God committee, right next to The Father.
He will return to Earth some time in the future, whereupon he will pass judgement on the lives of people who will be living at that time and on the lives of those who have died.
He will establish a monarchy with his committee in the seat of power and this rule will continue for eternity.
We believe in the last member of the God committee who is called ‘The Holy Ghost’, who, together with The Father and Jesus is to be praised and complimented by all its subjects.
The Holy Ghost has used telepathic means to send messages through certain humans who were called ‘The Prophets’.
We think there should be only one single Christian religion.
We agree that a ceremony in which a little water is sprinkled on a persons head is necessary to exonerate past instances of transgressing the house rules of the religion.
We are pleasantly anticipating our bodies coming back to life some time after death and then living forever in the land ruled by the deity committee.
Amen

Dawkins does it again

NOMA For Accomodationists

Steven Jay Gould’s principle of Non Overlapping Magisteria, or NOMA, is based on the notion that the field of science and the field of religion occupy separate realms or ‘magisteria’, namely the empirical, or natural magisteria for science and the non-empirical, or supernatural magisteria for religion.
As these magisteria are ‘non-overlapping’, it imposes a strict limitation in how science and religion deal with each others realm of influence and results in two important ground rules.

1. Science can say nothing about religion and the supernatural realm.

And equally but no less importantly

2. Science can say nothing about religion and the supernatural realm.