Behavioral Ecology Blog

From Doc Bushwell’s site:

“…Instead I want to see YouTube videos of people ambling around church parking lots during Sunday services and placing pro-rational “tracts” on people’s windshields. I’m not talking about in-your-face “God doesn’t exist, get used to it, ya fuckin’ hayseed!” stuff, but something genuinely useful and even seductive. Material that simply asks readers not to trust Pastor Blowmuff out of the gate; to consider that science is not in fact a natural adversary of a moral or spiritual or introspective life; to understand that evolution is not a tool created for the express purpose for battering Jesus into submission, but is simply one more aspect of how nature works, with or without my, your, or the Holy Ghost’s approval.

These would employ easy-to-follow diagrams featuring smiling cartoon characters. They would employ lists of common myths about biology, geology, scientists, and human sexuality, and brief explanations of why these are wrong. They would invite readers to visit Web sites such as Talk.Origins (URLs would be more likely to inspire responses than book titles). Even lifelong and seemingly hopeless victims of the faith byrus might be helped out of the primordial darkness by such an offering.”

See SkepChick’s post here, and another from Bushwell here.

Now aside from the fact that my wife would actually KILL me if I was to participate in something like this, I’m not so sure it’s a great idea- don’t get me wrong,, I’m all for putting out there the message that there is an alternative to religion- to organized religion, but employing the same tactics that these dim-wits use simply cheapens OUR positions. I mean, why stoop to their level. The majority of the fundamentalist base consists of intellectually challenged individuals that will NOT understand our argument anyway..

On the other hand… how fun would it be to watch the fallout from something like this…