Lady Checkmate's headline: "CRAZY COLLEGE COURSES AND THE RELIGION OF SEX"
https://townhall.com/columnists/frankturek/2017/12/20/crazy-college-courses-and-the-religion-of-sex-n2424553
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Is there any wonder that God's word says the wisdom of the world is as foolishness to God??
1 Corinthians 3:19 (NKJV)
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Just as Steve Bannon has abandoned the figurehead of the Alt-Right, so you are too; now concentrating on irrelevant things.
Well, you now have an irrelevant thing that is foolish to your 'God': because he hasn't repented of his sins.
Checkmate, Lady.
I call bullshit on that Dawkins quote. I don't know exactly what he said, but it's either a misquote or taken out of context, I guarantee. For one thing, evolution is constantly happening and Dawkins knows it. I'm sure that Dawkins is well aware of the Lenski experiment.
And the last comic should show a fundie Christian to the left of the monkey.
The Dawkins quote is real....maybe a bit of a quote-mine, but it's not a mis-quote.
PBS NOW, 12/3/04:
MOYERS: Is evolution a theory, not a fact?
DAWKINS: Evolution has been observed. It's just that it hasn't been observed while it's happening.
MOYERS: What do you mean it's been observed.
DAWKINS: The consequences of. It is rather like a detective coming on a murder after the scene. And you
the detective hasn't actually seen the murder take place, of course. But what you do see is a massive clue. Now, any detective
MOYERS: Circumstantial evidence.
DAWKINS: Circumstantial evidence, but masses of circumstantial evidence. Huge quantities of circumstantial evidence. It might as well be spelled out in words of English. Evolution is true. I mean it's as circumstantial as that, but it's as true as that.
I'm just kind of annoyed Dawkins didn't correct him on the "theory, not a fact" part.
Oh wait a minute...look at the date of the interview, though. 2004. If I'm not mistaken, that was before the results of the Lenski experiment were made public.
The Dawkins quote makes sense to me. He's saying you can't watch it happen "live" and expect things to change before your eyes.
It's kind of like with traditional music. You can't WRITE a traditional song...they become traditional after they go through hundreds of years of people singing them, making subtle changes to them, adapting them. No one knows who wrote them, but everyone knows them. So if you hear some recording of a tractor driver on a wet Sunday afternoon in Lincolnshire in 1923 singing a traditional song you can't say "aha, we've captured the song for once and for all". All you've done is captured the song at that transitional point in time. It was different before and will be different in the future.
So evolution is like that, but fundies continue to misunderstand that it's change over a very long period of time.
I went to the linked article, and every one of the "ridiculous" classes listed looked to be either a seminar or elective. None of them sound as if they are a required course for graduation. That puts them in the same category as the course I took 45 years ago in college, "The King James Bible as Literature." Most appeared to be single-term classes in a subject of current interest, offered because colleges want to offer some classes in current events. I'm sure if you looked, you would find classes being offered that analyzed the 2016 election and why Trump won.
The article looked at offerings from "50 major colleges." The first one mentioned is Northwestern University, which tells me the writer either doesn't know the difference between a college and a university, or doesn't care. According to the Association of American Colleges and Universities, there are 2,618 accredited four-year institutions, so 50 is a staggering 2%.
That line from 1 Corinthians is fabulous for people like Lady C here. 'Just because you're far cleverer than me doesn't mean you're far cleverer than me! We'll see who's actually cleverer when we're both dead and God in his infinite love has sent you to hell and I'll be looking down from heaven and pointing and laughing!'
@Churchy LaFemme
The first one mentioned is Northwestern University, which tells me the writer either doesn't know the difference between a college and a university,
To be fair, "college" IS very often used to mean "university" in the US, so calling Northwestern a "major college" is nothing unusual.
For one thing, universities play each other in college football, but I've NEVER heard anyone talk about "university football". lol
@KingofRye
Yeah the terms are pretty interchangable, except in certain areas. For example when talking about sports, people usually always refer to places as colleges, but when you are talking about graduate studies, people typically always call then universities. For other things its alot more even one way or another.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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