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Creation Science Fair...

Wow. Even more subtle than landoverbaptist.org. Um...it is a parody, right? right? please?

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Mercutio said:
Wow. Even more subtle than landoverbaptist.org. Um...it is a parody, right? right? please?

:confused:
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Since this clearly is the evildave Straw Christianity (tm) it's clearly a parody and a mediocre one at that. Why mediocre you ask? 117 pages of feedback. A believable parody shouldn't generate that much feedback.

Funny... just not as subtle as a "good"* parody should be.



*Landover get's a pass on subtlety because it was the first and best to this day.
 
UnrepentantSinner said:

Funny... just not as subtle as a "good"* parody should be.
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Bits of it are more subtle than others - this is also home to the "Mac OS X is the work of the devil" parody that briefly fooled Randi in one of his commentaries a few months ago.

At the time, I started a thread on it in the latest commentaries forum, but I can't find it now.
 
I wanna become a 'Theobiologist' when I grow up. Then I will know everything there is to know about the inner workings of Theo Huxtable.
 
I like the prayer used in the winning experiment designed to test the efficacy of prayer:
"Dear Lord, please allow the bacteria in Group A to unlock the antibiotic-resistant genes that You saw fit to give them at the time of Creation. Amen."
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Doesn't quite roll off the tongue like the Ave Maria, but I think it could be nicely set to music.
 
Upchurch said:
Don't think so. Check out Operation: Landover Baptist Shutdown. I think they're honest, even if they aren't legit.

edited to add:
Operation: Halloween Reclamation
Operation: Mall Mission
Operation: Creation Education

all very funny reads.
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I found this on the Operation: Halloween Reclamation page. If this ain't parody, then God bless 'em anyway.
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From the Creation Science Fair site:
Jonathan Goode (grade 7) applied findings from many fields of science to support his conclusion that God designed women for homemaking: physics shows that women have a lower center of gravity than men, making them more suited to carrying groceries and laundry baskets; biology shows that women were designed to carry un-born babies in their wombs and to feed born babies milk, making them the natural choice for child rearing; social sciences shows that the wages for women workers are lower than for normal workers, meaning that they are unable to work as well and thus earn equal pay; and exegetics shows that God created Eve as a companion for Adam, not as a co-worker.
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The mind boggles.
 
This is an honest question, is that a parody? I'm not sure as my wife is a christian and she has several ministry information sheets that sound exactly like that, especially the opening paragraph.
 
Dragonrock said:
This is an honest question, is that a parody? I'm not sure as my wife is a christian and she has several ministry information sheets that sound exactly like that, especially the opening paragraph.
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I found a number of reasons suggesting it's a parody when this first appeared, but I just cannot find the thread that it appeared in (not even by searching for all my posts since forever). However, some things to bear in mind:

- The last time I checked, only about two of the email addresses for the various authors were real. I established this by sending emails to them.

- Try googling for any of the people or the other churches/organisations they purport to represent. If you find anything that isn't a link back to the site, you're a better googler than I. One had an email address that was hosted by a genuine church in Texas, but was not a member of staff of that church (which I checked by looking at the host webpage), and the address had the wrong format. Shortly after I made this observation, the email address changed to one at a Christian webmail address. I suspect that was just coincidence, though.

- This site was originally hosted on a Christian webserver (trueministeries, or something like that - they appeared to be genuine when I did some snooping about their pages), which made some think that this was kosher (yeah, cheers). The site was then unceremoniously booted and ended up on Tripod - I suspect the original hosts realised they had been duped (or perhaps the site got too many hits?). I see it now has a better home.

- Giving the anti-evolution guy the surname 'Paley' is a little too good to be true, don't you think?

- Among the many genuine (and equally kitschy) Christian sites that the banner ads link to at the bottom of the page was something that turned out to be a porn site!

- The more you read, the more obvious it becomes that it's a joke, in my opinion. The authors can't help themselves and get a little too unsubtle in places. This last point is a bit subjective, I agree. At the time I thought it might be some sort of clever advertisement for a forthcoming Landover book or something. I guess I was mistaken, though.
 
Thank you, I feel much better. However, I wish the ministry sheets that my wife has were electronic, they are real and they are written in the same style. The narrowmindedness of them is scary. What gets me is that they came from what would be considered a liberal church.
 
I decided it was a joke after reading about how they had to change webhosts because the Christian outfit they were previously hosted by didn't take a strong enough stance against the heresy of triclavianism (the imaginary doctrine that only three nails were used in Christ's crucifixion).
 
JamesM said:

- Among the many genuine (and equally kitschy) Christian sites that the banner ads link to at the bottom of the page was something that turned out to be a porn site!
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Do you mean this site: http://www.thumbnail-post.org/

If so then you're a better man then I for not checking it out. :)


(hint) It isn't porn.
 
I will not sleep until someone proves this is a parody. Please give me the proof.
 
I'm sure every experiment at that fair could be properly explained with science and/or logic.

"My Uncle Is A Man Named Steve (Not A Monkey)"
Good to know. I fail to see the point. I shouldnt criticize an experiment assembled by a 5th grader.

"Women Were Designed For Homemaking"
Ok now that is downright prejudice and sexist.

"Maximal Packing Of Rodentia Kinds: A Feasibility Study"
The description of this experiment sounds a lot like animal cruelty.

Oh well... I have to keep an open mind and respect the beliefs of others dont I. I would have liked to see this fair in person...
 
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