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Royal Society "Creationist" Resigns

Posted by kdawson on from the gap-resistent-to-bridging dept.

Chris_Keene writes in to let us know that the Prof. Michael Reiss, who recently caused a storm with comments about teaching creationism in schools, has resigned from his post as director of education at the Royal Society in the UK. This news coincides with word out of the Anglican church that it is ready to apologize to Charles Darwin, 150 years after it poured scorn on his theory of evolution by natural selection. "The Church of England will concede in a statement that it was over-defensive and over-emotional in dismissing Darwin's ideas. It will call 'anti-evolutionary fervor' an 'indictment' on the Church."

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  1. That was an intelligently designed decision by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually, no, it was survival by the fittest.

    1. Re:That was an intelligently designed decision by pilgrim23 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Creationists Evolved, Evolutionists were created....

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    2. Re:That was an intelligently designed decision by Bullet-Dodger · · Score: 5, Funny

      Actually science still can't explain where DNA came from or for that matter science cannot explain matter.

      Which is why I personally don't believe in matter.

      I would love if Evolutionists would reconsider their views but for them it is the Holy Grail and a religion

      Damn scientists and their unwavering, dogmatic belief in whichever theory is best supported by the evidence!

      I don't dispute evolution as in "Survival of the fittest" and change over time and adaptations. I reject it as an explanation for the source of all matter, dna, and life. It doesn't tackle those subjects yet you always see those lumped into evolutionary discussions.

      You stand brave against that strawman! I also reject evolution as an explanation for continental drift, tornados, and the northern lights. Take THAT, scientific dogma!

    3. Re:That was an intelligently designed decision by againjj · · Score: 3, Funny

      It's punishment for the sins of the parents or, if you believe in reincarnation, the sins of the person being reborn.

  2. Re:Evolution by nattt · · Score: 4, Funny

    Gravity is just a theory, not a proven fact, but I still fall over...

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  3. Re:First Intelligently Designed Trout! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    wehat dio yoiui meaan fgins domnt woerk, yiou inswensatiove clode!

  4. Re:Intellectuals are so right... by Curtman · · Score: 3, Funny

    You just described an evolutionist's understanding of DNA.

    I guess I must have missed the part on telepathy and omniscience.

  5. Re:First Intelligently Designed Trout! by thePowerOfGrayskull · · Score: 5, Funny

    I AM A FISH!

    I am the walrus.

    That means you are dinner.

    (And before some smart-ass tells me that walruses prefer mollusks, yeah, I know. Now stop trying to ruin my joke.)

    (And before some smart-ass tells me that I did that all on my own, yeah, I know. Now stop trying to ruin my meta-joke.)

  6. Re:First Intelligently Designed Trout! by glittalogik · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does 'meta-joke' refer more accurately to a joke about jokes, as in your example, or a joke that generates other joke, like the Irish knock-knock joke (hint: you start), or one that sort of does both?

    "Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability."
    -- Bill Bailey

  7. Re:The good doctor was a vicar instead by ArsonSmith · · Score: 3, Funny

    It'd be like finding out a Linux admin runs Windows at home. He'd be ridiculed until he had to step down with a tarnished reputation and may not ever be able to work in computers again.

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  8. Re:God spoke English in 4004 BC? by PopeRatzo · · Score: 3, Funny

    So the KJV is the original word of God.

    My neighbor Yoshi disagrees, as does my neighbor Ramanathan and my neighbor Ali. I'd ask my neighbor Steve, but he's an Evangelical, and at the moment he and his wife are getting their nightly word of God from Fox News.

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  9. Re:please, please ... by PopeRatzo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Pressuring someone to resign because they mention the word "creationism"...

    Mentioning "creationism" when your in the Royal Academy of Science is not unlike mentioning "blowjob" at a meeting of the Evangelical Women's Association. It's a little more than a "slip of the tongue", and you might get asked to leave.

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  10. Re:please, please ... by PopeRatzo · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nothing in this world is more annoying than an American atheist

    Clearly, you've never met a Missouri fundamentalist.

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