J-Dog
Posts: 4402 Joined: Dec. 2006
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Quote (ERV @ Dec. 05 2007,19:31) | Quote (carlsonjok @ Dec. 05 2007,19:00) | Quote (ERV @ Dec. 05 2007,18:18) | Dude, John Kwok is seriously one of the funniest mo-fos I have ever met on the internet. |
I'll say this about Kwok, he can certainly turn a phrase. The description of ID as creationism in a cheap tuxedo used to be my favorite description. It has now been replaced with John's tagging ID as a "narrow, tormented version of a Christian origin myth."
Quote | The emails he gets from Dembski... omg... |
Tease. |
Official emails are being held hostage, just in case Dembski decides to publish Johns emails on his blog-- But John sent me an official press release that I could post. If you know John, or read a few of his reviews and get his humor, this is the funniest shit ever. But the main thing is, Dembski boasted (even after this Texas Board of Education stuff) that he had principals in TX that refused to let students learn evolution. Didnt name any names, of course, and he could be lying.
Quote | Former paleobiologist - and frequent Amazon.com contributor - John Kwok has shared with me some private e-mail correspondence that he received from one William Dembski. When John observed that the current principal of his high school alma mater, New York City's prestigious Stuyvesant High School, pledged to a gathering of its alumni back in 2005 (around the time of the Dover, PA trial) that Intelligent Design wouldn't be taught at all at Stuyvesant as long as he served as its principal, Dembski replied by noting that he had school principals in Texas who wouldn't teach contemporary evolutionary theory, but instead, Intelligent Design.
John wrote back, noting that Stuyvesant's principal teaches one class of senior-level physics to entering freshman (Stuyvesant High School is regarded by many as America's premier high school devoted to the sciences, mathematics and engineering; among its many distinguished alumni are four Nobel Prize-winning scientists and one economist.). Among John's many Amazon.com reviews are quite a few critical of Intelligent Design and other flavors of creationism, most notably, his harsh - but accurate - review of Michael Behe's "The Edge of Evolution" that's entitled, "The Abyss of Reason: The Limits of Michael Behe's Scientific Thinking". |
Johns humor is like Steven Wrights. Once you 'get it', its painfully funny. |
Yeah, I first read John Kwok back when Behe got his crap out, and he is very good. I tried to invite him here, but hadn't bought any books from Amazon recently enough to get through.
If you can get through, please pass our best wishes on and pass an invite along. (after he vists ERV of course)
-------------- Come on Tough Guy, do the little dance of ID impotence you do so well. - Louis to Joe G 2/10
Gullibility is not a virtue - Quidam on Dembski's belief in the Bible Code Faith Healers & ID 7/08
UD is an Unnatural Douchemagnet. - richardthughes 7/11
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