"Obviously I don't eat the whole asparagus, I'm not a monster!"

[chaletian]

So, Katie and I recently read the comic Jesus Hates Zombies (which I imagine is true). Jesus is sent back down from heaven by God to fight the good fight when the world is taken over by a zombie plague. All I’m thinking is, how much cooller would it have been if his sidekick was not Laz the zombie but instead a now-grown-up potential-SAVIOUR-OF-THE-WORLD Suri Cruise. Hah. That would amuse me.

Went to the Bad Film Club last night for Robocop 3, which was joyous (though Robocop’s giant mutant head and tiny mutant face never fail to freak me out), and which bizarrely contained both Inspector Craddock from Miss Marple and Josh from The West Wing (useful for The Game, we thought, and then laughed a lot). Next month is Congo. After that, a bad 80s film with Sylvester Stallone in tight jeans accompanied by a heavy body count. Beauty.

So, I was a little bit horrified at the thought of Sarah Palin believing that dinosaurs roamed the earth (I love that “roam” is the only verb that ever seems to go with “dinosaurs”) 4000 years ago, because, um, yes, there were all sorts of ancient civilisations bopping around at the time, and you’d think one of them at least would have mentioned it. Why would Aristophanes have written The Frogs when he could have written The Huge Fuck-Off Dinosaurs? However, fortunately, upon researching further, I find that apparently (and I am open to correction here) that creationists believe that dinosaurs were around 6000 years ago. So that’s OK then.

Believing in literal creationism, which flies in the face of all scientific evidence, is stupid. This probably seems blunt, and if you happen to read this and you do believe it, I’m sorry if you’re offended, but there you go. I think it’s stupid.

Believe in intelligent design if you want to, but it has no scientific evidence to support it, and is founded on a belief in the existence of God, which doesn’t have any scientific evidence to support it either. It is therefore not a fit subject for a science class, due to the total absence of, um, science. Talk about it in RE by all means, but that’s what it is, a religious belief, not a scientific theory.

I had a whole rant about education and stuff, but to be honest, I just can’t be arsed. You’ve dodged a bullet, there; I was getting quite passionate as I typed.

Anyway. Meh. I’ll go away now.

Comments

[chaletian.livejournal.com]

When I am broken and ruined, lying in a pathetic duffel-coated sprawl in a ditch somewhere, I will raise my tiny impotent fist to the skies and croak, "Goddamn you, eBay, for taking all my money with your tat and your books and your comedy knitted loo-roll-ladies!"


(Initially typoed "tiny impotent fish to the skies", which I think would have taken this comment to a level of surrealness which really none of us is ready for.)

[kathrynw.livejournal.com]

What I REALLY wanted was a Sarah Palin doll. Well two actually so that I could pose them in inappropriate positions. But ebay, for once, let me down.

[chaletian.livejournal.com]

Noooooo! eBay, what have you done?!!!

Well, as Frankie Boyle so very wittily pointed out on MtW the other week, all you really need to do is to get a GI Joe doll and stick a vagina on it... *g*

[rosie-rah.livejournal.com]

*goes off to search ebay for Sarah Palin tat*

[mrs-redboots.livejournal.com]

But I actually read it as "tiny impotent fish", and then realised what you'd really typed....?