Creation
Creationists insist that the amazing world of the Bear Hunt sprung up ex nihilo for the purpose of telling a beautiful story.
But we know better. By Scientific observation and inductive reasoning we can prove the existence of enormous negative page numbers. We know that inductive reasoning functions as incontestable proof, because we are the keepers and guardians of the sacred truth that all worlds are impersonal machines and not stories. Worlds have no plots, and are filled only with particles, not characters. Creationists are stupid. So are all authors, artists, composers and poets — they are all conspiring in a tremendous lie about worlds and Science (all rise!).
I gotta have my orange juice. 
A parable, of course. In response to this: http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/27/bill-nye-slams-creationism/
Scott Moonen
August 28, 2012 at 9:08 am
If you want to believe in the creative arts, that’s fine. But don’t make your kids study it. In another couple centuries, I’m sure the arts won’t even exist. There’s no evidence for it . . .
Scott Moonen
August 28, 2012 at 10:11 am
Art is an opiate for the masses, perpetuating the seductive lie that there are such things as purpose, person, plot and author.
Scott Moonen
August 28, 2012 at 10:38 am
Apropos this topic, Eric Metaxas just reviewed N. D. Wilson’s excellent book, Notes From the Tilt-a-Whirl: http://www.breakpoint.org/bpcommentaries/entry/13/20142
Scott Moonen
August 28, 2012 at 3:25 pm
Everything is meaningless, pointless and hopeless. Therefore, I must tear away your blindfold that keeps you dangerously convinced of purpose, beauty, and heaven. You are the ones we should lock up to prevent future generations from being corrupted.
Cheri-CreationScience4Kids
August 29, 2012 at 4:38 pm
Peter Leithart comments that “unbelief ends up sacrificing economics and literature as well as religion.”
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