I swear - you couldn't make this schite up!

Biggins · 13-09-2010 6:59pm #1

Credit due to Oceanclub who drew our attention to the following in the politics section.

Minister of State for Science - to launch anti-science book!

oceanclub wrote: »

Just when you think that Fianna Fail can't surprise you any more, this happens:

Darwinism?The Origin of Specious Nonsense Book|EVOLUTION IS A HOAX|Irish Author John J May

Someone from Atheism Ireland rang the author and, yes, Conor Lenihan, Minister of State for Science, Technology and Kebabs, is launching a book that claims that evolution is a hoax.

I just rang Lenihan's constituency office and yes, it was confirmed that this is absolutely true. The person who answered claimed that merely because a Minister for Science is launching - and therefore giving credence to - a book that attacks science, it shouldn't be taken that Lenihan agrees with the book!

See: http://www.atheist.ie/2010/09/science-minister-lenihan-to-launch-book-calling-evolution-a-hoax/

If that ain't a HUGE big "Fcuk-you" to every science teacher and scientist in Ireland - whom he's supposed to be representing - I don't know what is!

Pure crazy, given the office he currently holds.

Chuchoter · 13-09-2010 7:01pm

Just read this in the other thread. Ridiculous ****ing ****e this country goes on with. He better be fired.

Abelloid · 13-09-2010 7:02pm

Evolution is a hoax.

http://imgur.com/XnJyK.jpg

Absurdum · 13-09-2010 7:03pm

Conor Lenihan is a hoax!

Elevator · 13-09-2010 7:05pm

sure between the uk firing professor nutt and now this bull you'd think people would realise these fools who snaked their way into the ultimate gravy train couldn't give a hoot for science/reality!!

not one bit surprised at all tbh

AckwelFoley · 13-09-2010 7:06pm

If evolution is a hoax, its a fairly elabourate one.

People that believe the earth is 3000 years old and that we were created as man are Braindead.

Evolution is only a theory, but its one of the most bullet proof theories there are.

smcgiff · 13-09-2010 7:08pm

snyper wrote: »

If evolution is a hoax, its a fairly elabourate one.

People that believe the earth is 3000 years old and that we were created as man are Braindead.

Evolution is only a theory, but its one of the most bullet proof theories there are.

You're most likely preaching to the converted.

Don't even think there are many theists on Boards that argue against evolution.

But if there are bring them on (with or without their tennis balls

)

galwayrush · 13-09-2010 7:16pm

It's the next step in the FF inspired / controlled evolution of the Irish state.:pac::pac:

Rabble Rabble · 13-09-2010 7:18pm

This has to be a firing offence.

Feeona · 13-09-2010 7:19pm

This is a link to john J May (as he's written it!!) blog.

They should put him forward for the Darwin award

mconigol · 13-09-2010 7:20pm

I'm pretty sure you just made up the word "schite"..........

Myrddin · 13-09-2010 7:20pm

What an absoloute laughing stock of a country, is the whole thing one big hidden camera show?? If Jeremy Beadle wasn't dead I'd be half expecting him to pop out and laugh at us all.

Ah well, at least he won't have to pay tax on his book earnings (assuming some clowns actually buy it).

Fianna Fail - regress your intelligence 50 years, vote now!

http://timesbusiness.typepad.com/money_weblog/2009/04/the-10-highest-paid-politicians-in-the-world.html

Feeona · 13-09-2010 7:20pm

Sorry, missing link

http://open.salon.com/blog/john_j

Abelloid · 13-09-2010 7:23pm

mconigol wrote: »

I'm pretty sure you just made up the word "schite"..........

It evolved.

Abelloid · 13-09-2010 7:24pm

Feeona wrote: »

Sorry, missing link

http://open.salon.com/blog/john_j

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transitional_fossil

AckwelFoley · 13-09-2010 7:24pm

smcgiff wrote: »

You're most likely preaching to the converted.

Don't even think there are many theists on Boards that argue against evolution.

But if there are bring them on (with or without their tennis balls )

I had a secondary school teacher insist when i was 12 that the earth was 3000 years old, i at 12 insisted it was somewhere in the region of 4,5 billion years old.

I really confused him with Time dilation.

He thought i was an idiot.

Perhaps he was right

Bellabidul · 13-09-2010 7:26pm

just where is this country heading to with this type of rulers?

Feeona · 13-09-2010 7:27pm

JustinOval wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transitional_fossil

Ah don't explain my joke! You're stealing my thunder

Havermeyer · 13-09-2010 7:29pm

Feeona wrote: »

Sorry, missing link

http://open.salon.com/blog/john_j

What a gimp. He can't even write a proper introduction for himself, never mind a book.

Conor Lenihan, you should bow your head in shame for promoting this nonsense. You are an embarrassment to this country, an embarrassment to politics, and an embarrassment to mankind.

Absolutely pathetic.

Yakult · 13-09-2010 7:29pm

What a joke. It really shows what kind of GOON's are running this country (Into the ground). Why cant we do anything about these people other than have a "vote" every few ****ing years..

Biggins · 13-09-2010 7:29pm

Bellabidul wrote: »

just where is this country heading to with this type of rulers?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages

Phill Ewinn · 13-09-2010 7:30pm

Evolution can bite my ass.

Feeona · 13-09-2010 7:31pm

Phill Ewinn wrote: »

Evolution can bite my hairy ass.

You're welcome : P

mickydoomsux · 13-09-2010 7:32pm

Bellabidul wrote: »

just where is this country heading to with this type of rulers?

Ireland has a long and rich history of state sponsored stupidity. The Catholic church and the State are still very much in bed as they have been for decades.

This development doesn't surprise in the slightest.

Phill Ewinn · 13-09-2010 7:35pm

meh

http://img.myconfinedspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/christianity-vs-atheism.jpg

seensensee · 13-09-2010 7:35pm

John J May sounds like he has Neanderthal in his DNA...

"Intermixing does not surprise paleoanthropologists who have long argued on the basis of fossils that archaic humans, such as the Neandertals in Eurasia and Homo erectus in East Asia, mated with early moderns and can be counted among our ancestors—the so-called multiregional evolution theory of modern human origins. The detection of Neandertal DNA in present-day people thus comes as welcome news to these scientists. “It is important evidence for multiregional evolution,” comments Milford H. Wolpoff of the University of Michigan, the leading proponent of the theory." http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=neandertal-genome-study-r

Pace2008 · 13-09-2010 7:37pm

smcgiff wrote: »

Don't even think there are many theists on Boards that argue against evolution.

But if there are bring them on (with or without their tennis balls )

Have you seen the Creationism thread on the Christianity forum? Be very, very careful what you wish for.

Callan57 · 13-09-2010 7:42pm

nummnutts wrote: »

What a gimp. He can't even write a proper introduction for himself, never mind a book.

Conor Lenihan, you should bow your head in shame for promoting this nonsense. You are an embarrassment to this country, an embarrassment to politics, and an embarrassment to mankind.

Absolutely pathetic.

He's an embarrassment to womankind also .. but we are hopeful he will evolve into something

sligopark · 13-09-2010 7:44pm

How could evolution be real? We have had 80 years of Fianna Fail and these bunch are the most stupidest useless bunch yet

Links234 · 13-09-2010 7:44pm

What are you guys on about?
isn't this whole evolution thing bunked already?

I mean, the banana! look at the way it fits perfectly into the human hand

johnmcdnl · 13-09-2010 7:45pm

Did anyone read the interactive sample of the book he provides on his page - he's taking about cell division in pregnancy and basically he comes to the conclusion that cell division is caused by god because how else would the cells know how to develop into a baby...

What's the odd that the entire book just picks out some random bits of proven scientific fact and says well how does it know to do this... therefore god made it...

How comes glue is sticky - well it's becaus X lalalalalalal - but this is caused by god because how else would it work....

it's a disgrace that our minister for science is being even associated with this book never mind launching it:mad::mad::mad: just when I though we were finally starting to make progress on the state and it's religious policies and laws :mad::mad::mad:

Mr Trade In · 13-09-2010 7:47pm

Ranks up there with Bertie being a Honorary Professor in the Business and Law Department in NUI Maynooth. Fcuking backwards country gets worse by the day.

Myrddin · 13-09-2010 7:56pm

johnmcdnl wrote: »

cell division is caused by god

I wonder which God he means.

sd2002 · 13-09-2010 7:56pm

They should have got Mary Coughlan to launch the book instead...

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/coughlans-no-einstein-after-gaffe-at-smart-economy-launch-1890227.html

Raze_them_all · 13-09-2010 7:57pm

Almost as shocking as having a severely obese person as the minster of health.

Thrill · 13-09-2010 7:57pm

He knows what he's talking about

Dennis the Stone · 13-09-2010 7:58pm

An embarrassment.

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/09/how_about_the_irish_minister_o.php

bleg · 13-09-2010 8:05pm

If I open a jar of peanut butter and there isn't new life in there evolution doesn't exist.

Myrddin · 13-09-2010 8:05pm

Evolution clearly does exist, the correlation between a Hammer-Head Shark & the below link is undeniable really. No other creatures face is wider than it is high, that I can think of.

Link

Killer Pigeon · 13-09-2010 8:05pm

Yes, the world is also flat and the universe is geocentric.

kincsem · 13-09-2010 8:08pm

He likes the sound of his own voice.

KeithAFC · 13-09-2010 8:09pm

Our planet is billions of years old..

SeaFields · 13-09-2010 8:14pm

Anyone else see the irony in Conor Lenihan promoting a book that denies Darwins theory?

zenno · 13-09-2010 8:18pm

i watched the video's there and almost choked laughing LOL at least i got a laugh from it. :pac:

Mrmoe · 13-09-2010 8:19pm

I wonder how much the minister is getting paid for this.

Gummy Panda · 13-09-2010 8:25pm

Wrinkly baby disproves evolution

the fcuk...

Biggins · 13-09-2010 8:26pm

Mrmoe wrote: »

I wonder how much the minister is getting paid for this.

Maybe he's getting his copy of the book handed to him in a brown envelope!

looksee · 13-09-2010 8:27pm

The book is garbage, and badly written garbage at that. However I can't find any reference to Conor Lenihan attending the look launch that doesn't originate in an expose by Politics.ie. There could be a good bit of egg on face if they have got it wrong.

If FF have any sense they will make sure Politics.ie has got it wrong.

kincsem · 13-09-2010 8:28pm

Is Mr Lenihen trying to outdo Mr Gormless?

Biggins · 13-09-2010 8:29pm

looksee wrote: »

The book is garbage, and badly written garbage at that. However I can't find any reference to Conor Lenihan attending the look launch that doesn't originate in an expose by Politics.ie. There could be a good bit of egg on face if they have got it wrong.

If FF have any sense they will make sure Politics.ie has got it wrong.

http://www.atheist.ie/2010/09/science-minister-lenihan-to-launch-book-calling-evolution-a-hoax/

Minister Lenihan is ...attending a ‘Gorrillas and Girls’ party and a photo shoot with Charles Darwin and King Kong, where he will launch the book, The Origin of Specious Nonsense, written by his friend John G May. This is the type of argument that appears in the book to which Minister Lenihan is giving the credibility of his Office:

“The Empire State building cannot be supported on a styrofoam coffee cup from Dunkin Donuts, nor a rocket go to the moon on a litre of petrol from Shell, nor the sea fit into a child’s bucket on a Californian beach, yet there is more chance of all three happening (which never will) than for the awful soul destroying fiction of evolution to be true. The frog never changed into a prince, the gods of Egypt are fantasies, Dracula never existed, the King was naked, and evolution is a demonstrable hoax just as surely as Santa Claus.”

Of course, this is the same Conor Lenihan who five years ago described Turkish workers in Ireland as ‘kebabs’ during a Parliamentary debate. Lenihan was then Minister for Overseas Development and Human Rights; in the magical world of Irish politics, he was later appointed Minister for Immigration policy.

I mean - SERIOUSLY - is the boys of FF taking the piss or what!

Dempsey · 13-09-2010 8:39pm

Only in Ireland!

He should be sacked by Fianna Fail for being an idiot of the highest order

I swear - you couldn't make this schite up!

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