What PZ said....

From Pharyngula

Come February, we are going to be privileged to see a brand new movie that stars Ben Stein and portrays Intelligent Design creationism as the cool rebel oppressed by the stodgy old Darwinist bullies. Did you know that "scientists are not allowed to even think thoughts that involve an intelligent creator"? I didn't either. I think a lot of scientists have thought about it and noticed that there is no evidence for such a hypothesis, and have therefore rejected it.

I guess this idiocy was inevitable. From what I gather from the movie's website. Ben is playing the supercooooool teacher who is oppressed and suppressed by the eeeeeeevillll science community who hate invisible best friends like the Judeo-Chrisitian imaginary sky-buddy. It should make the rounds through the Bibble Belt and evangelical churches, but as far as making my Netflix queue or plunking down $10 for this stinkeroo.... um no.

Beside the very idea of BS in a pair of private school shorts should be enough to make anyone question the existence of an intelligent creator in the first place.
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Coy's Privette Parts

File under: SO SAYETH THE SHEPHERD...

Apparently moral watchdog Coy Privette was watching too closely.....

Found on Associated Baptist Press via Science Blogs.

Baptist morality activist arrested on sex-for-hire charges in N.C.
By Norman Jameson
Published July 20, 2007

RALEIGH, N.C. (ABP) -- Coy Privette, the president of a Christian morality group and a former state legislator and Southern Baptist Convention leader, has been arrested on prostitution-related charges in North Carolina.

Privette, the president of the Christian Action League in North Carolina, was charged July 19 with six counts of aiding and abetting prostitution.

According to arrest documents secured by the Biblical Recorder, Privette's alleged actions took place in a Rowan County hotel between May 4 and June 25. Tiffany Denise Summers, 32, of Salisbury, N.C., was charged with six counts of prostitution in connection with the investigation.

Privette, 74, is a former trustee of the Christian Life Commission (now Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission), the Southern Baptist Convention's moral-watchdog agency. He is a former trustee chair of the SBC's Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C.

Sex scandals have become more prominent in Baptist circles recently, with clergy sex-abuse cases recently shocking churches in Texas, Missouri, Kentucky and Florida. In 2006, Oklahoma pastor Lonnie Latham, a member of the powerful SBC Executive Committee, was arrested for “offering to engage in an act of lewdness” with a male undercover police officer.

Baptists are not alone, however. Colorado megachurch pastor Ted Haggard, the leader of the National Association of Evangelicals, resigned in 2006 after a church investigative board found him

I love the smell of religious hypocrisy in the mornin'.

SWEET JESUS IN A SUIT!!!

Found this over at Pharyngula.

Interesting fellow.... well if Bush can be president, and Cheney viewed as a brave and moral man; I guess this fellow, Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda, could be Jesus Christ.

To complete your quota for Friday weirdness you can visit the website Growing In Grace. While this guy is obviously a kook, i gotta dig the 666 tattoo he apparently has on his arm.

Page Bill Donohue! I want a steel cage match between these two stat!!