Breaking news: Darwin appears in holy frying pan!

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infinite wavelength radiation

William Dembski once famously (and seriously, AFAICT) asserted that God could introduce new information into a system by means of infinite wavelength radiation.

Will my tin-foil hat protect me from infinite wavelength radiation?

Uh-oh - the black halo surrounding the image proves beyond all doubt that Darwin was a tool of Satan :-(

Sorry, I'm pretty sure that's not Darwin, but some kind of cephalopod space alien. The eyes are just way too low on the huge, domed cranium. I grant that the tentacles are too blurred to make out, but that can probably be explained by recent sunspot activity interfering with the transmission.

Uh-oh - the black halo surrounding the image proves beyond all doubt that Darwin was a tool of Satan :-(

Holy Calphalon, Batman!

I have reached the unassailable conclusion that the postdoc needs a raise so he/she can afford a new pan. My argument is formalized in my new monograph, No Free Pans.

You've got it all wrong. I checked my sources and this is definitely the gay telletubbie reading Harpers. CHeck it out, You know I'm right.

You've got it all wrong. I checked my sources and this is definitely the gay telletubbie reading Harpers. CHeck it out, You know I'm right.

I think the image looks a lot more like Newton than like Darwin. And I think that a disclaimer to this effect should be posted to warn eBay bidders!

I think the image looks a lot more like Newton than like Darwin.

— Julie

You've got it all wrong. I checked my sources and this is definitely the gay telletubbie reading Harpers.

— BWE

Will my tin-foil hat protect me from infinite wavelength radiation?

That upside down triangle comes off when Harpers comes out. My daughter has one (a toy actually, a ten foot one couldn't fit in her room) and I've seen the top come off. I can only assume that the real Tinky WInky know how to put it back on.

Wonderful comments - let's just all ridicule these guys to death, declare victory, and be done with ID.

The black 'aura' is most assuredly a 'black hole'. It is not an image of Darwin, it is the "Holy Ghost". This should be enough to educate all you atheists that all 'life' is part of "God's Pan".

Oh, come on Julie! That's just plain silly!

Is this an omen that Darwinism is in crisis after all? An "out of the frying pan, into the fire" kind of deal? Is it God's way of telling us we are going to hell? I'm scared.

Isn't the "New Jerusalem" supposed to be a big square thing - like the state of KANSAS!?! Oh dear, now I am bothered and fretful.

I know that evolution is true but what if the wackos are right and God is more impressed with gullibility than intelligence? He never told us to be clever; he told us to believe what we are told! I like science and truth all stuff but I don't want to go to hell over it.

One thing is certain, until this creepiness is sorted out I am staying away from all things fried.

I remain skeptical.
I think someone designed it.

Was the pan, by any chance, used to prepare a spaghetti dish or other pasta recipe?

Ramen

The image appeared in a pan.

Pan is traditionally depicted with hooves and horns.

...what else do we need to know? ;-)

That's enough proof for me! Time to get Intelligent Frying into the science curriculum.

Pat Robertson has just declared spaghetti to be henceforth called "God Loving Noodles With TOmato Sauce From THe GOd Fearing USA"

That's not Darwin at all. It's John Paul II from the waist up.

No it isn't; it's Santa Claus.

I'm serious about getting IF (Intelligent Frying) introduced into the science curriculum. I can justify my scientific theory using the irredelicous complex argument. Without all the ingredients, there are so-called "gaps" in the taste and smell (or as my collegues call it, the "missing stink"). All the ingredients have to be there to explain the final aroma and taste, otherwise it's not food. Therefore, food must be irredeliously complex. Can anyone please explain these gaps? Of course not. Only IF can. I rest my case. And, oh yes, my theory has been peer-reviewed (but not in any of your so-called biased scientific journals).

It has not yet been ascertained whether the pan's dicoverer was cooking spaghetti at the time the image appeared.

That's not Darwin at all. It's John Paul II from the waist up.

sorry - it's not Darwin, it's God from Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Dammit! snaxalotl beat me too it.

The crumbly bits look like parmesan, definitely a sign of a noodly appendage at work.

"Image of Darwin 'miraculously' appears on bottom of frying pan." This simple edit might boost slumpish bidding?

If that's newton, is it the Isaac Newton of Gastronomic Theory?

William Dembski once famously (and seriously, AFAICT) asserted that God could introduce new information into a system by means of infinite wavelength radiation.

How-- I am someone who is close to completing a math minor, and I find myself wondering this question almost every time Dembski comes up-- how is it, again, that Dembski continues to get away with claiming that he is a mathematician?

No, no. It's prop from a PSA commercial, airing in Kansas. From the copy:

"This is your brain.

This is your brain on Darwin.

Any questions?"

(This is, coincidentally, precisely equal to the probability that Nicholas Caputo would have hit David Berlinski if he had fired an arrow at Albert Einstein's door during a total solar eclipse.)

An African Berlinski, or European?

Frickin Hilarious!

Although to be fair, according to my possibly inadequate understanding or knowledge of Dembski's work, I believe that the image given above would not actually make it through the explanatory filter. Not exactly complex enough and by far not entirely specified.

MS

It looks more like Santa to me.

Does anyone have contact with the pan peddler?
She should be informed about this thread. Bloody funny.
I am sure she would appreciate it, especially when you look at where the cash will be heading.
Seller must have some sympathy for the pro-science cause.

They key here lies in where the image appears. A pan. What is the name of our closest living common ancestor? That's right: Pan troglodytes. Obviously, the Chimps are sending us a sign that they're really the ones calling the shots on this planet and that they aren't going to put up with any more crap from uppity relatives. I, for one, welcome our new Knuckle-Walking overlords

Posted by Dave Carlson on November 18, 2005 07:37 PM (e) (s) They key here lies in where the image appears. A pan. What is the name of our closest living common ancestor? That's right: Pan troglodytes. Obviously, the Chimps are sending us a sign that they're really the ones calling the shots on this planet and that they aren't going to put up with any more crap from uppity relatives. I, for one, welcome our new Knuckle-Walking overlords

Ah, yes.
And the proof that mice are super-intelligent? Why, they've been experimenting on us so successfully all these years.

Douglas Adams, we hardly knew ye.

It's NOT Darwin.

It's Marie Antoinette.

In the olden days, the Inquisition would burn heretics at the stake, perhaps in some odd symbolism of where they believed the victim's soul was heading.

Now, slightly modernised and with the big D man having replaced Satan as the object of their hate, they have become the "Fry D" movement...

So long. And thanks for all the fish.

:>

Do not wish to intrude on the humor and merriment of this thread, but will insert this observation on the political developements since last week's election. The point we should think about is that the ID crowd suffered a devastating defeat last Teusday. The fact that those 8 Dover school board members lost has had major political repercussions. Note the following facts.

Santorum, who supported ID two years agoe just came out and said it has no role in science education in public schools. (He is running for office in Pennsylvania after all).

George Will in a recent piece came out against ID.

Krauthammer also soundly denounced ID.

This means that on the extreme political right two of the more analytical political commentators and one so far successful opportunist are fleeing from the ID bandwagon.

I think we are winning this one. Rational conservatives seem to be fleeing from the nutcase fundamentalist that have pushed this issue onto the Republican Party.

Mike:

I agree, at least I sincerely hope we are "winning".

Widening the picture, it may even be that the recent debate over how this country based its decision to go into Iraq has meant that the concepts "truth" and "reason" have gained a bit of ground. If the I word in ID is of the same quality as the "intelligence" that led to the invasion, perhaps those running for office less than a year from now prefer to cosy up to truth and reason instead...

I think we are winning this one. Rational conservatives seem to be fleeing from the nutcase fundamentalist that have pushed this issue onto the Republican Party.

First, it is clearly not Charles Darwin. Darwin never wore a wig, at least not in polite company.

Now from the style of the wig we can clearly surmise that this is a depiction of someone around or shortly after the Restoration. To suggest that is is Marie Antoinette is ludicrous. She would have appeared in a French crepe pan, not an English frying pan.

So our main contenders are Isaac Newton, Charles II, or Samuel Pepys. On the evidence, I'd have to go with the latter since this apparition was clearly sent in code. In which case the proceeds should probably go to support Royal Naval Benevolent Society rather than the ACLU.

Absolutely Hilarious! And yet absolutely TRUE!

My hats off to all the hopeful writers of the Daily Show:

Andrea Bottaro - For his "Disclaimer"

Inwit - For "she was using the pan to reduce a rather complex sauce."

With my fav being:

William - "This should be enough to educate all you atheists that all 'life' is part of "God's Pan"."

Tooooo Funny

But African Berlinskis are non-migratory.

Thanks to all for the cheeriest thread I've seen here!

So true, Lenny. There must be enough of pro-science Republicans around to take the fundamentalists on, but all the same, it must be demoralizing for these more moderate people when the leadership of their party has spent so much time and effort courting the fundamentalist wing.

Hopefully the trouble that Rove, Libby, and the rest now find themselves in will embolden the more moderate members of the party to ensure they will no longer be held hostage by fundamentalism.

Rick Santorum, a man who has been lionized by the right of his party, is 20 points behind his Democrat challenger for his Senate seat. It's no coincidence that he declared last week that he is now against ID being taught in schools (he was for it before he was against it :).

I personally would be quite happy to see the Republicans spanked by the Democrats in next year's election (full disclosure, and all), but it's probably equally, if not more, important for Republicans to stop and reverse the seeping fundamentalism that seems to have infected the party.

I blame Karl Rove for a lot of this. The irony of all this is that I don't think that Bush is "one of them"--Rove just knew that fundamentalists were their ticket to the White House. If and when Rove finally goes down, the country will be a better place for it.

Mike said: I don't think that Bush is "one of them"

As a lifelong republican you can imagine how distressing the last 5 years have been to me not being able to vote for president at all. Although Colorado is a very republican state,so far the destruction of science education hasn't become a focal point although catholic educators are starting to make ominous rumbling noises. James Dobson our most worrisome powerful fundamentalist is too obsessed with gay marriage to so far get involved with this as are Marylin Musgrave and Wayne Allard who are 2 of our 8 representatives. John McCain is my kind of republican and deserves support. What ever happened to people such as Nelson Rockefeller, Bill Scranton, Howard Baker, John Anderson and George Romney? Is there no place for them in the Karl Rove dominated party of today? The republican party was once the voice of the small independant buissness person such as myself. It seems that there is nowhere to turn.

Frying pan seller has updated ebay ad with a link to panda's thumb. Seller says she is receiving requests for "Sewall Wright woks" but unfortunately seller's wok is of higher quality than seller's frying pan.

I believe that we've just been graced by the appearance of the Keeper of the Frying Pan (bluesquid, above).

Those of you who have doubted her revelations had better return to the Straight and Narrow, or we might just see some smiting.

Do not be deceived, but he is most likely one of them.

The president loves his job, period. He did, and will do anything to keep it. 'The Bush Dyslexicon' by Mark Crispin Miller explores the struggle within Dubya. 'Bush On the Couch' by Justin A. Frank is another source to understanding this man. Both are thoughtful critiques.
George is one cocky little cowboy and nobody's gonna git in hiz way. Problem is, hiz way is very straight and very narrow, jes' like Barbara learned 'im.

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