# "Pokemon Prove Evolutionism Is False" **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 14, 2003, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pokemon-prove-evolutionism-is-false/213289 "2003-11-14T19:10:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pokemon-prove-evolutionism-is-false/213289/1 "2003-11-14T19:10:03Z")
OK, that´s it, I´ve found the root of all insanity. [Creation Science Fair](http://objective.jesussave.us/creationsciencefair.html) Further quotes: > [@](#): > > 1st Place: “My Uncle Is A Man Named Steve (Not A Monkey)” > Cassidy Turnbull (grade 5) presented her uncle, Steve. She also showed photographs of monkeys and invited fairgoers to note the differences between her uncle and the monkeys. She tried to feed her uncle bananas, but he declined to eat them. Cassidy has conclusively shown that her uncle is no monkey. BWAHAHAHA > [@](#): > > Using Prayer To Microevolve Latent Antibiotic Resistance In Bacteria" > Eileen Hyde and Lynda Morgan (grades 10 & 11) did a project showing how the power of prayer can unlock the latent genes in bacteria, allowing them to microevolve antibiotic resistance. Escherichia coli bacteria cultured in agar filled petri dishes were subjected to the antibiotics tetracycline and chlorotetracycline. The bacteria cultures were divided into two groups, one group (A) received prayer while the other (B) didn’t. The prayer was as follows: “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.” The process was repeated for five generations, with the prayer being given at the start of each generation. In the end, Group A was significantly more resistant than Group B to both antibiotics. REEEEAALLYY??? :smack: To this bunch of lunatics: I evolve in your general direction, freaks! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pokemon-prove-evolutionism-is-false/213289/2 "2003-11-14T19:20:07Z")
Did I hear a [whoosh](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=198633&highlight=creation+science+fair)? ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pokemon-prove-evolutionism-is-false/213289/3 "2003-11-14T19:40:53Z")
Awww, you party spoiler; I´m not inviting you to my birthday this month ☹ I evolve in your general direction too. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pokemon-prove-evolutionism-is-false/213289/4 "2003-11-14T19:47:59Z")
DAMN, and I was going to try that “women have a lower center of gravity” thing on the wife, the next time she tried to wheedle out of washing the dishes. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pokemon-prove-evolutionism-is-false/213289/5 "2003-11-14T21:04:14Z")
Sorry, **Ale**. I’m sure someone would have pointed that out sooner or later, just happens that I have a good memory. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Squink \* > \*\*DAMN, and I was going to try that “women have a lower center of gravity” thing on the wife, the next time she tried to wheedle out of washing the dishes. ☹ \*\* I’d think a woman’s center of gravity would depend on the size of the boobs. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ReuvenB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc348/32.png) [@ReuvenB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ReuvenB)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pokemon-prove-evolutionism-is-false/213289/6 "2003-11-14T22:00:57Z")
I think someone should call the ASPCA over that last experiment. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pokemon-prove-evolutionism-is-false/213289/7 "2003-11-14T22:42:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by XWalrus2 \* > \*\*I think someone should call the ASPCA over that last experiment. \*\* Someone probably did if [the fuss bonsaikitten.com caused](http://www.cruel.com/sub/bonsai.shtml) is any indication. ---
**Author:** ![MrTuffPaws](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@MrTuffPaws](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrTuffPaws)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pokemon-prove-evolutionism-is-false/213289/8 "2003-11-14T22:48:03Z")
Hey, this is familiar. I pitted this too a while back. No one can really figure out if it is connected to Landover Baptist, and therefore, a joke. Funny, I am no monkey, but I can’t figure this one out. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2003, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pokemon-prove-evolutionism-is-false/213289/9 "2003-11-14T23:22:25Z")
When I checked on the main site a while back, I discovered about half of the “staff” list email providers that don’t exist. I think a WhoIs search at the time indicated that the site and/or the company that registered it was for sale. Gotta be a joke (possibly a parody of [this](http://www.creation.on.ca/cdp/events.html)), question is if they’re really connected with [Landover Baptist](http://www.landoverbaptist.org/) or not. [This](http://www.home-school.com/forum/support/posts/468.html) is certainly interesting and I wonder how true it is. ---
**Author:** ![jovan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/0ea827/32.png) [@jovan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jovan)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pokemon-prove-evolutionism-is-false/213289/10 "2003-11-16T12:16:00Z")
[Creation Science Fair](http://objective.jesussave.us/creationsciencefair.html) Ah, damn, it’s dead. Survival of the fittest I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2003, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pokemon-prove-evolutionism-is-false/213289/11 "2003-11-16T13:48:00Z")
Actually it’s true that women generally have a lower center of gravity than men do. One would think boob size would make it higher. But boobs are fleshy and not very dense. Hips on the other hand are bony and have muscle mass, and women have wider hips than men. I saw a demonstration of this in a biomechanics class. The prof put a pencil eraser on the floor and challenged us to kneel down with our hands behind our backs and try to knock it over with our noses. As I recall, only the ladies in the class could do it without falling over forward. If this doesn’t prove women are intended to be homemakers, I don’t know what will… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pokemon-prove-evolutionism-is-false/213289/12 "2003-11-17T03:41:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jovan \* > \*\*[Creation Science Fair](http://objective.jesussave.us/creationsciencefair.html) > > Ah, damn, it’s dead. \*\* Not really, the Teeming Millions probably just overloaded their servers for a while. ---
**Author:** ![pantom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/34f0e0/32.png) [@pantom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pantom)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pokemon-prove-evolutionism-is-false/213289/13 "2003-11-17T04:01:03Z")
Thermodynamics of Hellfire. Hmm. How does one research that, I wonder? ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pokemon-prove-evolutionism-is-false/213289/14 "2003-11-17T04:06:07Z")
> [@](#): > > Not really, the Teeming Millions probably just overloaded their servers for a while. And you´re going to blame me for that, right? :mad: heh 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pokemon-prove-evolutionism-is-false/213289/15 "2003-11-17T04:13:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pantom \* > \*\*Thermodynamics of Hellfire. Hmm. How does one research that, I wonder? \*\* First you have to be a very, very bad boy… ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pokemon-prove-evolutionism-is-false/213289/16 "2003-11-17T06:00:19Z")
[The Thermodynamics of Hell](http://www.nonesuch.net/classicpleasures/cute%20stories/thermodynamics_of_hell.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2003, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pokemon-prove-evolutionism-is-false/213289/17 "2003-11-17T17:33:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ale \* > \*\*And you´re going to blame me for that, right? :mad: > > heh 😉 \*\* Blame? Assuming it was the Teeming Millions effect, I’d give you _credit_. Every time sites like that go down it keeps others from falling for them. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pokemon-prove-evolutionism-is-false/213289/18 "2003-11-18T05:08:00Z")
That’s either brilliant and complete satire or just plain nuts. I have to say, I had a college roommate who was a fundie and would have been right at home at that “science” fair. He actually told me once that, in his words, “In a perfect world women wouldn’t be able to survive without God’s help.” I never could quite parse his definition of perfect out of that statement. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pokemon-prove-evolutionism-is-false/213289/19 "2003-11-18T06:46:02Z")
One bit of evidence for satire: I don’t think fundies that rabid would ever let their kids play with Pokemon, even to disprove evolution. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2003, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pokemon-prove-evolutionism-is-false/213289/20 "2003-11-18T13:16:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mach Tuck \* > \*\*Actually it’s true that women generally have a lower center of gravity than men do. One would think boob size would make it higher. But boobs are fleshy and not very dense. Hips on the other hand are bony and have muscle mass, and women have wider hips than men. > > I saw a demonstration of this in a biomechanics class. The prof put a pencil eraser on the floor and challenged us to kneel down with our hands behind our backs and try to knock it over with our noses. As I recall, only the ladies in the class could do it without falling over forward. > > If this doesn’t prove women are intended to be homemakers, I don’t know what will… 🙂 \*\* So… women wobble, but they don’t fall down? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pokemon-prove-evolutionism-is-false/213289.md?page=2)