By popular demand, The Monitor returns!
In this episode: Vegging out shrivels your face, brain-shaped cold cuts, dumb (but self-directed) college students, and an attempt at sober newsreading that goes predictably awry.
Created, written & designed by John Pavlus / Screencasts produced by Smashcut Media / Music by Jeff Alvarez
Well, not you, specifically, but if you're a gullible Christian student, get on the money train and see Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, to earn sweet cash for your Christian school. The producers of this Intelligent Design doc are offering cash donations to Christian schools in return for ticket stubs proving attendance (or at least purchased tickets). Breaks down like this (from the website):
* 0-99 ticket stubs submitted = $5 per ticket stub
* 100-299 ticket stubs submitted = $1,000 donated to your school
* 300-499 ticket stubs submitted = $2,500 donated to your school
* 500 ticket stubs submitted = $5,000 donated to your school
"Each school across the nation will be competing for the top honor of submitting the most ticket stubs with that school having their $5,000 donation matched for a total donation of $10,000!"
So is this movie, hosted by Ben Stein and featuring appearances from Richard Dawkins (man just can't resist a pissing match) and science hacks Jon Wells and Michael Eignor, worth being paid to see? Check the trailer after the jump.
Today's 60 Second Science Podcast is brought to you by the scientific method:
Science Societies Urge Education
Full transcript after the jump...
Continue reading 'Science Societies Urge Education [podcast]' >
We loves us some animated infographics here at 60SS, so this video, called DUELITY, is a must-watch.
We can't embed it here because it uses this badass split-screen effect to pit The Big Two origin stories against each other: That of "The Book of Darwin" and "the records of the General Organization and Development [GOD] labs".
The mind-flip concept is refreshingly cheeky (archaic biblespeak for the evolutionists, sleek technojargon for the creationists). But the visuals are just awesome.
[I personally don't think this video is advancing any kind of "teach the controversy" b.s... it's clearly an ironic send-up of the fact that there IS any controversy. But that's just me. Agree or disagree? Comments are open as always! Theirs, too.]
Since when was using an overwhelming amount of scientific evidence to prove your point worth being killed for? An English backpacker was sentenced to five years for manslaughter by an Australian court after stabbing a Scottish man and fellow backpacker last January. The Englishman befriended the Scottish couple, who were both biomedical scientists, but an evening argument over creation vs. evolution erupted, with the Scottish couple on the side of evolution vs. the Englishman on the side of the Bible and sharp objects.
Both camps seemed to agree to disagree, until the discussion reignited later, this time with drunkenness to fuel the fight. The Englishman lost it during dinner and went Michael Myers on the Scotsman, though he claims he used the knife in self-defense against the evolutionist.
Continue reading 'Backpacker killed in creationism vs. evolution fight' >
Oh, those creationists — you gotta give 'em credit for putting up a fight. These brief excerpts from the documentary "A Question of Origins" seek to tackle both astronomy and genetics with a cable-access budget and dime-store logic. A lot of the arguments within the astronomy doc amount to "because it exists, God did it," but I'm particularly fond of the "scientists have no answer as to why four planets have rings, or why each planet is so unique." Ha!
Check out the genetics clip after the jump, and let the laughter continue.
Sometimes I spend hours slaving over a hot stove, cooking up 60-Second jokes for you, my undernourished children. Science jokes don't just write themselves, you know?
But I stand corrected: Sometimes the jokes do just write themselves. This, my friends, is one of those times. Just lie back and bask in the glory.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Intelligent Design (Amazon)
Every week, The Anti-Scientist picks a study or news item which he dissects with the clinical detachment of the 19th century's most distinguished grave-robbing anatomists . . .
_________________________________
The new movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed is a rebellion-themed docudrama leveled at the 12 to 24 faith market. It will attempt the daunting task of making perhaps the most traditional belief in western culture edgy and hip. Like Christian death metal, it will do so in clothing rather antithetical to its subject.
But what's that you say? Nine out of ten virgins attending Dallas Baptist University already think creationism is cool. Well, yes, but this set hardly has clout in the culture wars, what with the pleated pants and New Testament trading cards. That's why they're paying star of the film, Ben Stein, and various marketing heavies for that just-so spin.
Continue reading 'Major Motion Picture Gives Creationism Fauxhawk, Skateboard' >
Writer John Scalzi visited and wrote about his trip to the Creation Museum, so you don't have to. You'll only really appreciate what a service this is if you've ever been there: Last time I visited, I got thrown out on my ass -- not because I disagreed with them, but because no one there would acknowledge me as the Creator and give me free funnel cakes. Ingrates.
