Monty Python meets 'Intelligent Design':
Salesman: No, no, it's not empty: it's just being elaborated. Remarkable theory, 'Intelligent Design', innit, eh? I mean, just look at all these books and articles: millions and millions of words...!
Customer: The verbiage don't enter into it, my lad. It's stone dead. It's a non-starter. Empirically untestable, it belongs in metaphysics. This 'theory' makes no predictions; has no contribution to make beyond extended polemics; and can't even be honest about who it thinks the 'Designer' was. Bereft of all logical and epistemological credibility, it has no scientific status! If certain right-wing and fundamentalist pressure-groups hadn't hit upon it as a way of opposing decades of uncomfortable scientific and social progress, it'd be pushing up daisies! It's off the table. It's kicked the waste-paper bucket. THIS IS A NON-THEORY!
Okay, so it's nowhere as good as the original, but what more do you expect on a Saturday lunchtime?
(Via, Barefoot Bum)
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Sigh!
Matt ... don't forget to get those nominations in for the Blogpower Awards - vote early and vote often!
By the way ... could have sworn I left a comment here yesterday. Must be going nuts.
"It's pinin' for the fjords"
"Painin' for the fjords? What kind of talk is that?"
"Lovely theory though. Boo'iful plumage!"
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