I saw this comment over at Dembski's blog, in Borofsky's post where he misquotes himself, and it cracked me up. I can't tell whether the commenter really means it, or whether it's a clever parody. And I'm not sure which would be funnier:
You shouldn't be too surprised at the attention you are getting. Many evolutionists did not believe that there was any real ID research going on, then along cames a bona-fide ID research assistant and blew that idea completely out of the water. You must have great, possibly unique, opportunities for seeing how life is at the cutting edge of a new science and I'm sure many would love to hear how you spend a typical day; I take it, that as a lay-man you don't actually design the experiments, but maybe you take measurements or produce parts for specialised lab equipment, etc.?
That's either a brilliant parody comment, or evidence of staggering delusion.
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Ed,
Did you notice PZ has apparently given up his tenure at UM-M and moved across the lake? From the links at the end of Borofsky's BS:
"For those interested, here are the following links:
PZ Meyers, professor at University of Michigan chooses to ponder on what I said at "Pharyngula." "
Go Blue!!
Ed writes:
If he means it, it would more sad-funny than clever-funny methinks.
I give plaudits to Joel "I'm just a little guy who isn't in the ID community so what do I know" Borofsky ...not too many could think to perform a defensive ad hominem attack on themselves. That could just topple the Samuel Chen technique of deleting his own posts in response to arguments he doesn't like for sheer ingenuity.
Errr...is he really saying that there must be ID research because there is someone with the title "research assistant" to Dembski?
I would say his day consists of photocopying stuff for Bill, and maybe trolling the Internet for any scientific paper that uses words like "design" and "machine", so that those could be hijacked as "ID research".
I'm thinking the former.
I'm offended that he didn't even bother to list me! Out of all those blogs, only PZ's blog gets more hits and links than mine and I was left out in the cold. No respect, I don't get no respect at all. I tell ya, my kids are no prize. My daughter flunked driver's ed - she couldn't get used to the front seat.
Congratulations Ed, you have just discovered Poe's Law
Wow, I'd never heard of Poe's law. Can't say that I disagree with it.
I vote for parody also - the references to "experiments," "measurements" and "specialised lab equipment" are too funny.
It's definitely parody. Steve_h is a Church Burnin' Ebola Boy through and through.
Oh, it's definitely a parody. And a funny one.
And my son - he's just as bad. I told him, "You should listen to your father", and he says, "Sure, where is he?".
"Bring me the complexity reducing machine! Hmm..."
"This organism's cellular structure won't reduce in complexity... Proof at last!"
If it weren't for the fact that Borofsky called himself a layman, I'd be sure it was a parody. But frankly, these people have so little grasp of what constitutes science that it could well be genuine. After all, if Dembski's own research assistant calls himself a layman as a defence of ID, he clearly lacks any awareness of how that will portray ID to the scientific community.