[QUOTE=Miller]
Is that better or worse than a malevolent Demi Moore?
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Ask Bruce Willis.
[QUOTE=Lobohan]
Ask Bruce Willis.
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Those are just Rumers…
[QUOTE=jayjay]
Those are just Rumers…
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Scout’s honor?
[QUOTE=Two and a Half Inches of Fun]
The designer was not designed because he is undesigned.
I hope I fought your ignorance, because, if not, you will burn in Hell.
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The universe was not designed because it is undesigned. I hope I fought your ignorance.
Do you and your God get a kick out of threatening people with eternal torture? Because it’s really not a very nice thing to do.
[QUOTE=davidm]
Do you and your God get a kick out of threatening people with eternal torture? Because it’s really not a very nice thing to do.
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I’ll do anything for Jebus, but I won’t do that.
[QUOTE=Two and a Half Inches of Fun]
I’ll do anything for Jebus, but I won’t do that.
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You just did.
davidm, it may be useful to you to know that Two and a Half Inches of Fun was not being serious when he made the post which attracted your attention; he was mocking the attitudes he appeared to be espousing.
[QUOTE=Indistinguishable]
davidm, it may be useful to you to know that Two and a Half Inches of Fun was not being serious when he made the post which attracted your attention; he was mocking the attitudes he appeared to be espousing.
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If that’s the case, then my apologies to Two and a Half Inches. It’s hard to tell. There are lots of people who say things like that in all sincerity.
[QUOTE=davidm]
If that’s the case, then my apologies to Two and a Half Inches. It’s hard to tell. There are lots of people who say things like that in all sincerity.
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No need to apologize; anyone could have missed the joke in the first post. But, really, how many of the people that sincerely say stuff like that call Jesus, Jebus?
[QUOTE=Beadalin]
Holy shit. For the first time ever, I am willing to consider that it’s possible – just possible – that FOX News isn’t entirely staffed with people of… less-than-average critical thinking skills.
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Blind pigs and acorns. Blind pigs and acorns.
[QUOTE=tomndebb]
OTOH, this is just one more attempt by the “bananas were created to be held in the hand” crowd and I doubt that it is going to actually become a blockbuster movie. It will be rented by the true believers and shown to their offspring whoi will either simply accept what they already believfe or they will mock it.
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Fucking idiots, everyone knows that hands were created to hold bananas.
[QUOTE=mswas]
Fucking idiots, everyone knows that hands were created to hold bananas.
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Using this kind of logic, one could point out that masturbation must be God’s idea-it’s within easy reach, and fits in the hand so nicely it was as if it was designed for just that purpose. 
[QUOTE=Czarcasm]
Using this kind of logic, one could point out that masturbation must be God’s idea-it’s within easy reach, and fits in the hand so nicely it was as if it was designed for just that purpose.
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Wow, I was doing the Lord’s work all this time, and I didn’t even realize it! I’m even more pious than I thought!
Can I get a witness?
No, seriously, can I get a witness, it makes me hot.
[QUOTE=Pullet]
Ah, Ben Stein. You cut me to the quick. I thought you were so cool.
sob
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You evidently didn’t know he was a speechwriter for Richard Nixon…
[QUOTE=Fuji]
Oh, for fuck’s sake. I just saw an interview with Stein on Hannity & Colmes*, and he actually said, and I quote verbatim:
“Hitler was a lineal descendant of Darwin.”
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I also like how he missed his ironical usage of his opponents’ terminology (“lineal descendant”) in his weak-ass Godwinizining efforts.
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Ironic AND utterly false, since Hitler was in no way a descendant of Darwin. I presume he meant to say that Hitler was an intellectual descendant of Darwin or some other such nonsense, but he botched even that.
[QUOTE=chorpler]
Ironic AND utterly false, since Hitler was in no way a descendant of Darwin. I presume he meant to say that Hitler was an intellectual descendant of Darwin or some other such nonsense, but he botched even that.
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Hey, that’s what he said.
Of course it’s false, literally AND metaphorically. From my shallow interpretations, Hitler was far more of an intellectual descendant of Schiller and Spencer (whose tagline “survival of the fittest” is often appropriated by those ignorant of Darwin’s actual theories), and an emotional descendant of Wagner.
But I’m sure Stein doesn’t let facts get in the way of an “intelligently designed” argument.
I can’t believe I actually used to think Stein was cool. Actually, I guess he was, as long as all that came out of his gaping maw was: “Bueller? Bueller?”
Dawkins, I’m sure, doesn’t have the time or interest to acquaint himself with American pop culture personalities, but I laughed out loud when I read this in his review of the movie:
This American had just presumed that educated people (of whom Dawkins is certainly one) would have an idea of who Ben Stein is. This film is most assuredly made for an American audience, but I would think the producers would have made an attempt to find a former speechwriter for Nixon, eye drop shill and bit actor who had some fame outside the country to front their silly movie.
[QUOTE=Gordon Urquhart]
This American had just presumed that educated people (of whom Dawkins is certainly one) would have an idea of who Ben Stein is. This film is most assuredly made for an American audience, but I would think the producers would have made an attempt to find a former speechwriter for Nixon, eye drop shill and bit actor who had some fame outside the country to front their silly movie.
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I would be surprised if one in a hundred non-Americans know who Ben Stein is. No Comedy Central outside the US (not when Win Ben Stein’s Money was on, anyway) and they don’t show the Visine commercials overseas.
I think Ben Stein is one of those personalities who a lot of Americans would recocgnize by sight (or sound), but not necessarily by name. They’d know him from Ferris Bueller if nothing else.