Creationists to publish in peer-reviewed journal

Post by **Surlethe** » 2008-01-28 07:01am

Mayabird wrote:Anyway, I'm thinking it might be time for a Creationist Sokal Hoax. Who's with me?

Aye. The thought occurred to me to submit an article calculating, say, the energy released during the Flood into the atmosphere, or the energy released by AiG's claimed continental drift, and end it by praising God for the miracle.

Post by **K. A. Pital** » 2008-01-28 11:01am

The thought occurred to me to submit an article calculating, say, the energy released during the Flood into the atmosphere, or the energy released by AiG's claimed continental drift, and end it by praising God for the miracle.

Great idea!

You could run a "were Noah and family toast?!" hijack, but revert to praising God in the end and I bet those fundies wouldn't even notice

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2008-01-28 12:03pm

Put it this way, the energy released from the water condensation alone is enough to heat the world by a low end figure of 430 odd degrees kelvin. That is a drop in the bucket compared to the total energy release from say... the water releasing 90% of its potential energy as it falls...

Shroom Man 777 · Post by **Shroom Man 777** » 2008-01-28 12:10pm

Maybe you could go about how they couldn't have enough food aboard the Ark, but then Noah asked and God provided and so this water-heat thing caused all those drowned people and animals to be boiled in water - turning the ocean around the Ark into a giant soup. Nutritious and delicious!

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2008-01-28 12:15pm

yeah, only if you can eat molten rock. The amount of energy released by the water's potential energy is equivalent to an imperial base delta zero

Post by **K. A. Pital** » 2008-01-28 02:39pm

God BDZ'd the Earth, but Noah's Ark was really a wooden spaceship. Shh, I might give those whackoes good ideas

OmegaGuy · Post by **OmegaGuy** » 2008-01-28 02:46pm

Stas Bush wrote:God BDZ'd the Earth, but Noah's Ark was really a wooden spaceship. Shh, I might give those whackoes good ideas

Actually if you go to FSTDT.com there are a lot of quotes where people think Noah's Ark was a spaceship.

This just proves that it's impossible to exaggerate fundie insanity

Eris · Post by **Eris** » 2008-01-28 02:58pm

Mayabird wrote:
Eris wrote:Guess where this new journal will rank.
Their own special category: incest! All the articles in the journal site only other articles in the journal, and are sited only by later articles in the journal.

Anyway, I'm thinking it might be time for a Creationist Sokal Hoax. Who's with me?

Only one serious problem I can see with that. The postmodernists were impenetrable. Even to themselves, they could not understand what the hell was written in their journals, so Alan Sokal had a pretty easy time writing a paper laced with hilarity.

Fundamentalists are just stupid. Anything that we would consider a satire on the level of the Sokal Hoax, they would actually support!

Kanastrous · Post by **Kanastrous** » 2008-01-29 08:34pm

Lockheed wrote:

I wouldn't worry too much about it. If anything this is probably just going to be another joke like the creationist "museum" they set up. I

In a participatory democracy where people tale their churchin' real serious-like, and vote based upon what they hear there, and on average have a poor basic science education, stuff like this has the potential to do a lot of damage.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2008-02-01 01:54am

Kanastrous wrote:
Lockheed wrote:I wouldn't worry too much about it. If anything this is probably just going to be another joke like the creationist "museum" they set up. I
In a participatory democracy where people tale their churchin' real serious-like, and vote based upon what they hear there, and on average have a poor basic science education, stuff like this has the potential to do a lot of damage.

Aren't morons like that already in the creationist camp anyway?