Another Creationist Moron: Roger Ebert. Not kidding.

[DPDarkPrimus]

That's pretty much what I said in the comments section in his blog, Mike.

[Eframepilot]

I pegged it as satire on the first read, mainly on my knowledge that Ebert had recently written an article criticizing Sarah Palin as an "American Idol" candidate. So the photograph of the dinosaur footprint with a human footprint inside and the line about the ridiculousness of the moose (instead of the traditional example of the duck-billed platypus) were very strong hints in context, at least to a political junkie, in addition to the matter-of-fact presentation of many bizarre postulates of Creationist theory resulting from Biblical literalism.

I think it's not so much that we have lost sight of irony as a culture, but that sarcasm has become so blunt that subtle satire is almost impossible to distinguish from the ludicrous statements made by actual believers. Republicans have said with straight faces that Palin has foreign policy experience because Russia is technically visible from part of Alaska.

[ray245]

Sigh...I guess even those who are well educated and well read can be misled by a sarcastic opinion.

Or perhaps we became alarmist whenever we hear the word creationist...and most of us instantly attack those people without understanding the full context? Perhaps we can get angry even when we see a comedy or parody in regards to creationism? That a lot of us on this board can no longer see the fun when people mock creationism, that we become alarmist in regards to everything that is creationism?



Perhaps being too aggressive can be a bad thing.

[Kanastrous]

'Everything that is Creationism' merits an alarmed response.

[ray245]

'Everything that is Creationism' merits an alarmed response.

Unless people is saying that they support creationsim as a JOKE.

I mean come on guys...most of you live in the US, where it is more common for you to mock fun of others because of a belief...you should be able to tell a joke apart better than me...

[madd0ct0r]

you missed the quotation marks again...

[Lord Poe]

I began reading with growing sadness that Ebert may well have jumped on the Fundie bandwagon due to his deteriorating health. Then I came across these quotes:

They are evidence of a Great Flood about 4,400 years ago, which laid down all the layers of sediment at once. They are nowhere near as old as evolutionists and archeologists say. A fossil claimed to be 200 million years old, found in Nevada in 1917, shows a shoe print.

They walked the earth at the same time as man, but were wiped out by the Flood, whose turbulence buried their bones in non-sequential sediments.

Classic trolling. Classic. "Non-sequential sediments" LOL!!