{"id":2358,"date":"2009-05-10T16:15:28","date_gmt":"2009-05-10T23:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2009\/05\/10\/the-funniest-page-on-the-internet\/"},"modified":"2009-05-10T16:15:28","modified_gmt":"2009-05-10T23:15:28","slug":"the-funniest-page-on-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/10\/the-funniest-page-on-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Funniest Page on the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was planning a mildly amusing joke about &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pareidolia\">Pastaeidolia<\/a>,&#8221; hoping that <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2009\/05\/10\/and-the-blind-shall-see\/\">Phil<\/a> would forgive me, after seeing this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fakeisthenewreal.org\/subway\/\">map<\/a> of the Paris subway system (via <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/bioephemera\/2009\/05\/international_subway_system_th.php#more\">Bioephemera<\/a>).<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<img src='http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/2009\/05\/paris4a.gif' alt='paris4a.gif' \/>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>I mean, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flying_spaghetti_monster\">resemblance<\/a> is unmistakable, no?<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<img src='http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/2009\/05\/flying_spaghetti_monster_2-thumb-514x514.jpg' width='400' alt='flying_spaghetti_monster_2-thumb-514x514.jpg' \/>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>There&#8217;s no way that can simply be a coincidence.<\/p>\n<p>But then I stumbled across the <a href=\"http:\/\/creationwiki.org\/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster\">Flying Spaghetti Monster<\/a> page at <a href=\"http:\/\/creationwiki.org\/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster\">CreationWiki:  The Encyclopedia of Creation Science<\/a>.  This is my new candidate for Funniest Page on the Internet.  Marvel as they explain, with helpful charts and a compelling level of earnestness, why the FSM does not, in fact, deserve the same amount of respect as one should show to Creation Science.<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"3\" width=\"600\">\n<tr>\n<th> Flying Spaghetti Monster <\/th>\n<th> Evolution <\/th>\n<th> Intelligent Design <\/th>\n<th> Creationism<\/p>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Intended as parody <\/td>\n<td> Intended as science <\/td>\n<td> Intended as science <\/td>\n<td> Intended as a scientific model of intelligent design\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Creator (the Flying Spaghetti Monster itself) assumed to exist and identified <\/td>\n<td> Creator assumed not to exist <\/td>\n<td> Creator (designer) inferred from the evidence but not identified <\/td>\n<td> Creator assumed to exist and specifically identified<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Evidence for evolution claimed to be planted by the creator <\/td>\n<td> Evidence for evolution is not to be questioned <\/td>\n<td> Evidence for evolution challenged with academic arguments <\/td>\n<td> Evidence for evolution challenged with academic arguments\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Creator makes things appear older than they are as a test of faith <\/td>\n<td> Accepts uniformitarian ages <\/td>\n<td> Generally accepts uniformitarian ages <\/td>\n<td> Rejects uniformitarian ages as based on unprovable presuppositions<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Has no genuine support in the scientific community <\/td>\n<td> Has the support of the vast majority of scientists <\/td>\n<td> Has the support of (at least) thousands of scientists <\/td>\n<td> Has the support of (at least) thousands of scientists\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Has no supporting evidence <\/td>\n<td> Has supporting evidence that is highly contested <\/td>\n<td> Has supporting evidence <\/td>\n<td> Has supporting evidence<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Against professionals like that, we amateur humorists stand little chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was planning a mildly amusing joke about &#8220;Pastaeidolia,&#8221; hoping that Phil would forgive me, after seeing this map of the Paris subway system (via Bioephemera). I mean, the resemblance is unmistakable, no? There&#8217;s no way that can simply be a coincidence. But then I stumbled across the Flying Spaghetti Monster page at CreationWiki: The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}