Golden Gould Awards for 2005

Cross posted at The Daily Kos http://www.dailykos.com/


Some people might call them idiots, sadly misled, or pig ignorant ...
George Bush calls them his Base.

The statements below were taken from chat rooms, e-mails, IM's, and the
Talk Origins Feedback Archive. As best I can tell these are all sincere
objections to evolutionary biology--that's part of what makes them so
funny. In several cases I conversed with the authors enough to
establish they probably weren't just kids. The scary thing is, a number
of them claimed to have degrees in hard science and one or two said
they were teachers.

Please vote for your favorite as the winner receives a virtual gold
plated statue of the late Stephen J. Gould. The master of evolution is
immortalized holding his nose with one hand and a small bag full of
unidentified refuse at arms length in the other. Here they are in no
particular order.


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I know you think you have fossils that proof stuff, but those fossils
are all fake, they're made out of tar and stuff, this is fact not
theory. They have factories in China mostly making the fossils.


If people came from monkeys, why are there still *people*? (Note-this
resembles almost to the word a previous entry form over one year ago,
but it was actually regurgitated by a different screen name in a venue
that leads me to believe it couldn't have been the same person)


If the strata layers were true, the missing links would be the
dinosaurs because they came way before other evolutionary stages. But
no, we are finding dinosaur bones left and right. We have over 35 kinds
of dinosaurs and we have more than one for each. Is that a problem. How
long have they been digging now?


then perhaps you can explain how A fish crawled out of the sea and
evolved into a mammal with lungs without dying before he evolved. You
scientists make up something to explain all of your theories without
ANY proof. You are fools living a lie. And being as Satan is the father
of lies, he is your master. Turn or Burn boys!


hey, i get so confused when i hear about all this evolution nonsense.
was it once upon a time,lifeless matter came to life. became a mything
link. then a boy.or was it.once upon a time, a lifeless chunk of wood
came to life.became a talking puppet.then a boy. please clear up my
confusion.....yo momma


DS I'm hoping you won't be like the others and we can have a nice
two-way discussion were we each listen to the other persons. As long as
you understand that evolutionists have no proof and just the tail on an
amoeba is proof of intelligent design and that's my view and I don't
really care to read yours.


Evolution? Isn't that what Osama ben Laden believes in? Isn't that what
the Taliban teaches in their madroseos? Nice company you keep,
terrorist.


You have to ask yourself though, why are evolutionists so vile and
disgusting and rude and why are scientists like DR Hovin so polite and
courteous? [What makes this e-mail ironic and worthy of nomination is
that just a few hours after I opened it I received an unsolicited
Instant Message which read in part] "You baby-killers make me sick with
your slime are poeple bull*** and your jew teachers telling our kids
they're nothing but monkeys. I know you're all gonna brn in jew hell
but I hope first we round you pigs up and execute you first, s lowly
and painfully.


Most mammals contain DNA similaities because mammals eat other mammals.



IMHO, our winner from 2004 deserves a renomination, below:

1. How do evolutionists explain the Caribbean Explosion?

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