Flock of Dodos: Behind Modern Creationism, Intelligent Design and the Easter Bunny
by Barrett Brown, Jon P. Alston
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Author: Barrett Brown, Jon P. AlstonEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-04-01
ISBN: 0978721306
Number of pages: 176
Publisher: Sterling & Ross, Cambridge House Press
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Book Review: Dodos Bested by Bonabos
Summary: 5 Stars
Laughter really can be the best medicine. If your head throbs after wading through creationist-on-crack buffoonery, or you suffer waves of nausea after exposure to the latest 'Intelligent Design' PR campaign gambit, read "Flock of Dodos." Relief will be immediate and long lasting.
Anyone who wiles away the hours wandering Wal-Mart aisles waiting for the rapture should probably avoid this book - it will raise holy hackles - born again Christians are not the target audience. I was born right the first time, and would really appreciate it if faith-based fanatics would quite insulting my mother, so none of the content was objectionable to me.
Highlights include a ribald deconstruction of 'The Discovery Institute (for the Renewal of Science and Culture),' which never intends to actually discover anything - hardly news to the reality-based community. From the infamous "Wedge Document" to a rag-tag claque of dysfunctional disciples (William Dembski, Michael Behe, Phillip Johnson, Stephen Meyer, and Jonathan Wells - a veritable bestiary of shills, flacks, sycophants, lawyers, unindicted co-conspirators, and Moonies), the anti-enlightenment agenda of the Disco Institute is satirically shredded, with the assistance of an elite troupe of lesbian Bonabo Chimpanzees. On behalf of rationalists everywhere, I would like to personally thank the Bonabo's for their help (design that Billy).
The wholly hilarious hijinks behind Kitzmiller v. Dover, where Team Disco, aided and abetted by an Oxycontin-addled William Buckingham (in the best tradition of Rush Limbaugh), and the Thomas Moore Law Center connived to engineer a spectacular train wreck, are also mercilessly lampooned. After this court decision Intelligent Design's 15 minutes of fame have come and gone, and gone, and gone, and gone, and gone like some perversly inverted Energizer bunny.
Slapstick and shoddy 'scientific creationism,' from the Millerite movement non-events surrounding October 22, 1844, to George McCready Price (failed preacher, delusional author of "Flood Geology"), and latter-day luddites such as John D. Morris and Ken Ham are next on the agenda of absurdaties.
Morris invented the instant-onset Alzheimer's disease necessary to sustain a Young Earth Creationist (YEC) worldview, while Ham's feverish antics, military jargon-laced howls, and lycanthropine facial foliage really do resemble what happens when werewolfs encounter full moons - although in my opinion Ham more closely resembles the dogmatic Dr. Zaius from the original "Planet of the Apes" movie. Note to Ken: quit showing the chimpanzee 'who's your grandfather and grandmother' slides - the resemblance is simply too striking to deny.
"Flock of Dodos" is laugh out loud funny. Highly recommend on every account. Excellent companion books include Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's Soul by Edward Humes or 40 Days and 40 Nights: Darwin, Intelligent Design, God, OxyContin®, and Other Oddities on Trial in Pennsylvania by Matthew Chapman or Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris.
Summary of Flock of Dodos: Behind Modern Creationism, Intelligent Design and the Easter Bunny
What is creationism? Is it science, theology, both, neither? Who's behind it? And why should you give a damn in the first place? Ex-National Lampooner Barrett Brown and Professor of Sociology Jon P. Alston, Ph.D, answer these questions, and perhaps one of two more, in a superbly unorthodox, serenely offensive and splendidly hilarious look at the forces behind the most talked-about pseudo-theory in modern history.Theology Books
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